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From: Brian Randell <>
Subject: Re: [SOG-UK-L] Member's Research Services - of the Future
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:12:37 +0100 (BST)


Hi Jim:

>Whilst we are engaged in drawing up a "Wish List " for
>the future, I really feel quite strongly that this should
>be included as a potentially great support service for
>"Distant" members. If the proposal is well supported,
>and eventually approved, appropriate volunteer and IT
>resources would have to be allocated in due course.
>Hopefully such a service would generate a useful
>contribution to the Society's costs and overheads.

I agree with your comments, but would point out that this cuts both ways.
As the SoG becomes better-linked with its distant members, so it becomes
increasingly easy for them to take part in appropriate volunteer activity
(e.g. concerning indexing and transcribing) that previously was only
feasible for London-based members.

The Norfolk FHS, for example, in fact has set up an Internet branch, in
order to further these two forms of interaction between the society and its
members.

Cheers

Brian Randell

PS Perhaps I could be excused from immediately offering my own services, in
view of the efforts that I already put into GENUKI! :-)

Dept. of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 7RU, UK
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