How about a donation to the New SDC Museum?

Jim Turner

As one that put alot of effort into this project... Here's my "opinion".

I don't want a dime... and I could care less what you do with the scans
I did. Jeff Rice and Jeff (Groth? I believe) did some of the
scanning/OCR work- and they can voice their opinions for themselves.
I doubt it would be feasible to pay someone to re-do the work, and
recoupe the investment anytime soon. There's no need to re-scan/OCR the
documents- THEY ARE ALL DONE. But, if you can find someone to assemble
the info... at reasonable cost... the project might get done.

Most of the Service bulletins and letters were yours to begin with. I
did come up with some fillers for the missing ones, and some that you
did not have (very early and later one's).

I still have ALL the scans. It's very simple to just put them on a CD.
HOWEVER, That was never the problem. The trouble came when trying to
assemble them into a user-friendly form. A searchable database, Perhaps
assembled like a parts manual, etc...
Just copying them to a CD is a poor way to browse them. They are very
hard to browse (freeware-Acrobat Reader is very slow), and there's no
way to indicate where the needed information is housed. For example- If
you want info on your 1954's brakes... you may not find any info on the
1954 Bulletins... That info may be on a 1956 Bulletin. OR, you're having
trouble with your 1963 Hawk hydrovac- and the "answer" is on a 1957
Bulletin. ... so you have to open and read 10-20 bulletins and letters-
in hopes you'll find something there.
I spent ALOT of time creating the INDEXES that show the contents of each
of the bulletins/letters. Each bulletin could have anywhere from 1-10
different subjects on it. I never completed the task of indexing ALL the
bulletins and service letters- as this was taking HOURS and HOURS of
finding the info and hand-typing the index. But, I feel it's the only
way to make the scans reasonably useable.  The indexes can easily be
made searchable, and the filenames make the data (fairly) easily
retreivable. I'm just not enough of a programmer to create this
searchable database... which is why the scans were sent to Henry.

IF the CD is ever marketed- (*I believe)Any profits should be put into
an account, and used as this NG see's fit... anyone(here) can suggest
where the funds be used, and a consensus taken as to whether it's a
cause we would want to support. I think we're a reasonable group... and
we won't be talking about thousands of $$$ anyway...

Ray

John,

I didn't participate in this project, and I should have.  The same goes for
the IC Club.  I regret both, now.  Hats off the those that gave of their
time and efforts to make both of these a reality.

Perhaps, it isn't to late to get things back on track with both the project
and the club.  Both are very worth while endeavors from the stand point of a
collective group of people such as this.  Especially, when you consider the
mandate by which this group was formed in the first place.

My two cents my not hold much water, but I'd think that this group as a
whole should benefit.  Studedom will certainly benefit from the project.
Any profits should be used by the club and it's membership to enhance the
club and by vote any endeavor it deems to undertake.  Museum (Grrrrrrr)
donations, dehydration station, club booth setup, T-Shirts (and sales), club
restoration projects, club auctions, other charities as seen fit.  I'm with
you about the free beer at meets!

Bo