[bksvol-discuss] Re: our commitment to you: from Jim Fruchterman and Betsy Beaumon
- From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:39:41 -0700
Dear Lissi,
Risking that this message too may prove unreadable to some let me thank you
from all Bookshare staff. It is a pleasure to be pursuing this mission together.
If you look backwards over the small improvements made or in-process you will
see that keeping quality high and volunteers tackling tougher books is
something we are building toward. That said, there is often a healthy stretch
between a leader's vision and what we can do on the day it is announced. For my
part I'll keep working with this community to see to it that the stretch is as
comfortable as we can make it.
Just a note that we are in the early stages of strategic planning so while some
changes may happen quickly others will be first evaluated against the
priorities to be set by the completed strategic plan.
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: our commitment to you: from Jim Fruchterman and
Betsy Beaumon
Dear Scott,
Traffic is high today, but we've been given some important information.
I'm thinking we may be able to help proof English, philosophy, and other
textbooks which consist primarily of standard text. Elements like numbered
and bulleted lists, footnotes and indices can be managed by some of us. I
imagine we'd need to commit to proofing them in a fixed, timely manner as
students usually need them by a certain date. I wonder if it would be
practical for staff to send the proofers who request them, the chopped book
to use to check details.
Jim's message is respectful and encouraging, giving volunteers their due and
proposing ways for us to continue adding to the collection. I'd never say
blind volunteers couldn't learn to process challenging books like cookbooks
and geography, science, math and other such textbooks, but right now, I
can't imagine how some of the material like side bars, irregularly formatted
text etc can be scanned and proofed. I'm going to be here to watch the
genius/magic happen.
Paul's report is tremendously informative! I'm so impressed with all of the
technical and exacting testing and system development which has gone into
building a system to process PQ books. It sounds as if issues such as page
numbering, page breaks and daisy navigability and braille translation have
been resolved. I am also confident that problems we identify now will be
tackled and solved as they have been since Bookshare was founded. It's been
a successful and impressively adaptable and expanding organization with
technical solutions and staff evolving at a remarkably fast rate as seen by
the rapid improvement in quality and quantity of the books on offer.
Thank you for recognizing volunteer interest in the developments at
Bookshare and presenting them to us. Your confidence in us to care and
understand does us honor.
Always with love,
Lissi
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