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Volunteers wanted

Posted by Coordinator on January 24, 2005 at 03:39:40

A large number of researchers and journalists are visiting our site. They have commented on the wealth of information they've been able to find here, and complimented us - the people behind the site, as well as you - the ex-member community that contributes, for to the intelligent and articulate discussions on the bulletin boards. They found our site to be a very credible source for first-hand information.

We're having a push right now to place as much documentation of COG publications online as possible.

So far, we have placed in our archive, only material from original sources such as scanned/typed full Mo Letters, or official electronic version releases of publications. The material in our archive has been proofed and represents the group's earlier unsanitized original publications, word for word.*

*(Disclaimer: we have a less than 0.001% margin of error = less than 1 character out of 100,000 has been found to be a mistake)

What we wish to do now, is create a secondary source archive.

Over the years, our visitors have painstakingly typed out and quoted sections of Mo Letters, Maria letters, GNs FSMs, etc, and presented them on our bulletin boards for discussion. Many of these quotes are scattered in posts right here in our archives.

We are looking for a few volunteers, who can divide up the bulletin board archives, and systematically look through them for any quotes they find, copy the URL (right-click on link, choose "copy shortcut") and paste them into a post. (We can start a thread dedicated to this somewhere at the bottom of this TOC). Example:

Quote from "Renewal part 5" found in:
http://www.exfamily.org/chatbbs/genx/archives2/13334.htm

Although it is always possible to write automated programs to do this, it would take a lot of time to develop such scripts, and we'd still have to manually check that nothing slipped through the cracks.

So, any takers?

Please reply here or write to:

p r j e c t s @ e x f a m i l y . o r g

(above address without spaces)