File space increase, volunteer recognition

[Rich Littleton]

Smilin' Joe,

	If this were all up to me, I'd definitely find some way to give
some sore of perk to vols. WHO ARE ACTIVE.  However, we are just tossing
ideas out on the table here.  You make some good points, but the point of
your points should be "how beef up the vol. experience."  

	If a vols. dropped back from 10 to 5 megs, presumably the lost 5
could come out of e-mail space, and I doubt that you'd have much sympathy
for someone who insisted in storing ca. 5 megs of back mail on the SCN
system.

	Any such reduction would occur over time so the (former) vol.
could adjust things.  

	Whatever perks would go with active vols, they should be
retractible.  Sort of like getting access to the color printer at night if
you are working extra hours on a project.

	Another alternative that I've suggtested (last year) would be to
eliminate the 45 minute limit.  

	So, now it's your turn.  What do YOU think might be an effective
way to spread a sense of being "on the team" for vols laboring in the
cyber vineyards?

	Again, it is clear to all of us that you don't want to even try to
"buy" vols.  But, we are operating way under strength (and have for
years).  So, as clever as we all are, we should be able to come up with
ways to bring in the troops.

	Later,

	Rich

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	And your cry-baby, whiney-assed opinion would be.....?   -- Anon.


On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Joe Mabel wrote:

> Most people will use space for web postings.  If their stuff is any good, 
> people will link to it.  Are you saying we're going to make them move it 
> away and break links if they stop being active?  This seems really silly to 
> me.  At least they need to have some option to pay something nominal to 
> leave it there. Otherwise, again, no one who is serious about this will use 
> SCN to post their stuff.
> 
> Are you going to remove good content because its author moves away?  or 
> dies?
> 
> JM
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Rich Littleton [SMTP:be718 at scn.org]
> Sent:	Saturday, November 06, 1999 3:08 AM
> To:	allen
> Cc:	Rod Clark; Janos Szablya; scn at scn.org
> Subject:	Re: File space increase, volunteer recognition
> 
> 
> Allen made a good point when he replied to my urging that volunteers get
> "bonus space."  He asked if we would take away the extra space once the
> vol. was no longer active.
> 
> My answer:  Yes.
> 
> If X is no longer meeting the minimum for being an "active" vol (I think
> that is 20 hours a year), then I have no problem discontinuing the
> benefit.
> 
> Allen implies another good point.  How the hell do we monitor the
> active-non-active status of all our vols.
> 
> My answer:  The committee coordinators do it.  The coordinators are
> ALREADY responsible for following the progress of the various committee
> tasks.  He/she can easily send in periodic notations to the volunteer
> committee listing who has been active.  In the e-mail committee, for
> example, the vols. provide that information to the coordinator monthly
> simply by putting their names on the signup list.  The e-mail coordinator
> has it easy;  he can simply forward the scheduling message to the
> volunteer committee.
> 
> Jim Haskins already prepared a database of all the volunteers (back in
> Jan.-March) for the volunteer committee.  So it would be a small matter to
> "check off" the incoming names.  Any name not showing up for a year would
> lose the extra space on the system.
> 
> 
> Allen implies yet another good question. (Actually, he asked it directly.)
> Do we just rip the space out of the hands of the formerly active
> volunteer?
> 
> My answer is:  No.  We send them a notice of their pending change of
> status.  Hopefully, this would trigger some of them to "re-up" (get active
> again) to keep the bonus space.
> 
> But, if the person could no longer commit to actively volunteering, we
> would eventually (with notice first, as mentioned) cut off the extra
> space.
> 
> 
> Not rocket science.  You get the benefit if you put more into running SCN.
> If you don't put that "more" into SCN, you get the normal user's space.
> 
> Any more questions?  (And I'm waiting for the eternal chant:  "We don't
> have enough volunteers .....", so make my day and ask that one.)
> 
> Rich
> 
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