[bksvol-discuss] Volunteer coordinator
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 17:43:43 -0700 (PDT)
I thought that was John G.'s title. What, then is his job?
G.Cindy
--- On Fri, 5/30/08, talmage@xxxxxxxxxx <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Date: Friday, May 30, 2008, 7:05 AM
> I think to a certain extent, a number of people on the list
> are
> venting. While constructive criticism can be productive,
> hostility
> and anger doesn't really help, it just raises the blood
> pressure to a
> dangerous level.
> A number of the problems Bookshare is under going are due
> to growing
> pains. Bookshare over the years has also had a difficult
> time
> retaining volunteer coordinators, and the lack of response
> to issues
> brought up on this list can be directly attributed to the
> present
> lack of such an individual. While it is nice when other
> staff
> members, are able to jump in, and answer some of the
> questions
> brought up here, I can also understand why they can't,
> and don't want
> to, address all the points discussed on the list. In case
> you
> haven't noticed, the members on this list can be a bit
> verbose at
> time. It will certainly be nice when Bookshare is able to
> fill the
> coordinator position to give us a point of contact. When
> they do get
> a volunteer coordinator, I would hope one of their first
> tasks would
> be the consolidation, and updating, of the instructions for
>
> volunteers, so it isn't necessary to look in 2 or 3
> different
> locations for the S.O.P. and alleviate some of the same
> questions
> being asked on a weekly basis by new members. This would
> also serve
> to introduce the coordinator to the process expected of the
> volunteers.
> Regarding our favorite whipping boy, the infamous stripper,
> in my
> humble opinion, it is nothing but a pain in the a55 at this
> time. I
> suspect, that it was either written in a programming
> language that
> the current engineers don't do, and / or the comments
> are so poor,
> that no one wishes to tackle it. If the decisions were
> mine to make,
> I would ditch the present stripper, only accept RTF
> submissions, and
> develop a preprocessing package that would attend to
> section breaks,
> smart quotes, font size, check for page breaks, strip
> graphics, check
> quality, etc., but ...
>
> Dave
>
> At 08:40 AM 5/30/2008, you wrote:
> >You are right Tracy.
> >
> >The thing that is most disturbing to me is the lack of
> response from
> >bookshare staff. They could say, as they have,
> we're working on it,
> >forget it, this is due to be implemented immediately.
> Instead,
> >nothing. To me that means lack of interest. In other
> words, it was
> >good enough in the olden days, get used to it.
> >
> >All I can say is, that's wrong, wrong, wrong!
> >
> >Bob (whistling in the dark)
>
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