We're also pretty communicative through the official channels which are [email protected] and the Twitter account, both of which I run.
I have some opinions about how the project HAS run but I also know that we recently hired someone, Brenton Cheng, who has Open Library as their main responsibility and have gotten a commitment (also recent) that the project will be maintained (it was touch and go for a while and that was not really a public facing debate). This is not touching on the scanning issue which is not OL's thing. I'm not sure what the original topic here was? So, things are actually getting fixed, tickets are getting closed and staff (i.e. me) are more optimistic. However that doesn't mean that larger longstanding issues are going to magically resolve or that we're all totally clear on what the path forward is. We understand we've lost a lot of people's trust and while I'm not happy about that, I also think it's totally deserved. There has been a marked disconnect between the public face of the project (mostly just stats and a website) and the actual reality of an understaffed, undersupported project. That requires some cultural change to turn around, not just new staff or more funding. Feel free to contact me directly or through the OL address if there are specific things you want to discuss. I agree that the project has more potential than it will likely realize, but it's also already doing some pretty interesting and unique things that are worth attempting to support. Everyone's got to make their own decisions about how much they want to be involved. ________ Jessamyn librarian.net ::: jessamyn.com ::: jessamyn.info ::: box 345, randolph vt 05060 On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Jon Leech <[email protected]> wrote: > I did try contacting Alexis through several channels and never > received a response. As with almost everything about IA/OL, except for > Karen's participation here, that appears to be a black hole. > > It's very sad. OL could be a wonderful resource, but the project is > completely opaque, nonresponsive to actual problems except for Karen, > based on an ancient and very cranky UI and a significantly corrupt > database, and there seems no prospect of any of that ever changing. I'd > be willing to support OL both financially and by trying to contribute > coding effort if I thought that there would be any point to doing so - > which there isn't as things stand now. > > Jon > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 08:07:19AM -0700, Karen Coyle wrote: >> Try [email protected] - that other may have been a deliberate misdirection. >> ;-) - kc >> >> On 4/1/16 3:17 AM, Jon Leech wrote: >> >On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 07:58:01PM -0700, Karen Coyle wrote: >> >>The book scanning operation is separate from Open Library, although access >> >>to the scanned books ends up in OL. You should probably contact Alexis >> >>Rossi, who, I believe, is now managing the scanning and lending project. >> >>[email protected], if I am not mistaken. >> > >> > Thanks, Karen. However, '[email protected]' is giving 'User >> >unknown' errors in response to email, so that's probably not them - any >> >chance you know an alternate email for Alexis? >> > Jon > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list - [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
