File space increase, volunteer recognition

[Rich Littleton]

What!!!????  No blackmailing??!1 

Well, "pooh," is all I can say.  (Hrmph!)

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


On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Janos Szablya wrote:

> Joe 
> Relax 
> My comments were tounge in cheek,
> 
> A long time ago I had suggested that there be a formula for definining
> active volunteers (gosh I spelled it right, volenteeres not defining)
> based on service and a goodly amount oftime off. periodically it has been
> brought up through other topics.... 
> 
> The additional space administration is next to impossible at this point in
> time as is the administration of my formula.... I don't want to do it and
> it would be easy to do less the complaints... and all I suggest is a way
> to define..
> 
> My coments were related to the absurdity of pin point identidy of a
> volenteer tracking hours at this point for anything except for in-kind
> grant applications . Which if you have not yet done please do.
> 
> In no are we about to blackmail people into staying with us..
> 
> Please accept my apoligise for any misunderstanding  (and typos)hat this
> comment regarding a long series of notes may have caused you and other
> listeners to KSCN.
> 
> Janos
> 
> 
> 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 was no longer active.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
> > 
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > 
> > 		I'm really very easy to get along with,
> > 		once people just learn to worship me.
> > 
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