[dvdvol] Willing volunteer awaiting instructions

[Aaron Cannon]

At 05:37 AM 10/13/2004, you wrote:
>Some months ago I offered to help with burning CD-ROMs and DVDs. I've
>not heard anything more about this other than being put on this list -
>might there be a problem because I'm based in the UK?
>
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>Michael Quinion
>businessmail at quinion.com
>+44 1454 411128


Hi Michael.  You're definitely not the only one on this list in this 
situation.  The fact is that I was so busy with getting through the queue 
that a lot of offers of help unfortunately went unaccepted.  That's why I 
formed this list.  People were falling through the cracks and I thought 
that perhaps this list might at least enable me to communicate and 
coordinate things with all of you better.

There's no problem with your location.  We currently have two volunteers in 
Europe mailing discs for us.

Here's how things stand right now.  The queue that only a month ago was 400 
requests long and looked like it was going to take months to get through is 
now only 50 requests long.  By next week, it should be gone 
completely.  This has caused a shift in problems.  Before we had too much 
work and not enough help.  Now, we've got a lot of help and almost no work.

So, once again I would pose the question to the group, now that we have the 
queue under control, in which direction should we focus our attentions?

I am personally in favor of making a new CD or DVD image.  Right now there 
are a lot of files on the DVD which don't need to be there.  I'm talking 
about the 30MB PDF files and the old versions of files which were 
included.  If we were to go through and select files for the DVD 
one-by-one, I'm convinced that we could substantially increase the number 
of books and the quality of the DVD.  I've been giving some thought as to 
how this task could even be distributed.

Thoughts?

Sincerely
Aaron Cannon


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