[bksvol-discuss] Re: Page numbers and headers/footers
- From: Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:29:05 -0400 (EDT)
Debbie
In addition to Peter, particularly when a volunteer co-ordinator is in
place, this list gives Benetech plenty of input from the users and
volunteers of the service.
While I realize you are a fan of formal comittees, I, as a user, much
prefer the current form of input as it is both direct and doesn't add
another layer of bureaucracy.
If Benetech itself were bureaucratic with hundreds of execs and the like,
it might make sense.
And, if there is a committee, why is that committee going to represent a
good cross section of views as committees tend either to reflect the views
of the reps themselves or their parent organizations rather than the
everyday users and volunteers.
Benetech and BookShare's major problem these days is a lack of staff to
implement its activities which is a result of the real world difficulty of
procuring sizable donations and grants.
As can be seen by this discussion of the stripper, there truly isn't much
of a consensus as to what users prefer; so a committee, if it truly
represented users, would have the same result.
About all we know is that folks don't particularly like the stripper (they
seem to agree about that); and as there is no consensus, perhaps the
optimum solution, if technologically possible, is to allow users the
ability to control stripping.
And one doesn't need a committee to figure that out nor there infrequent
meetings to formalize things which might slow down things even more.
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