<VV> Online Encyclopedia

[Tony Underwood]

At 09:43 PM 12/21/2009, budpon at cs.com wrote:

>  After days and days of all the chatter about the problems of 
> CORSA, one man, Barry, presented a very valid and sensible 
> suggestion.  His idea seems very workable and doable.  But no one 
> is interested?  Even our self-ordained arbitrator of all things has 
> not chimed in.  Now that's amazing.


*I* was interested.   I was impressed that somebody came up with a 
really good idea, and was hoping to see someone in a position of 
authority step up and say so from an official standpoint.


OK BOD...   anybody?   I was kinda under the impression that the 
Communique scan project was a part of this encyclopedia/wiki 
suggestion from Back When that had been carried forth to current day 
since the suggestion included making all the back issues of the 
Communique (including Quarterlies and early newsletters etc) 
available online (along with a lot of other Corvair tech data).

...now I'm to understand that it was not?   Or was it...?   Anybody 
know?   Whether it was or not... well, in my viewpoint it is now.


>It seems to me that this could be a fine tool for selling new 
>memberships.  Also, for retaining old memberships (such as 
>me).  CORSA doesn't have much to offer older members such as 
>myself.  That's why I'm not renewing at this time.  But I still 
>would hate to see CORSA close and I believe it's well on it's way to 
>doing so.  I know Barry's idea would take some time and effort but 
>I've seen nothing better suggested.  No one even wants to discuss 
>it?  Bah, Humbug.



I'm not gonna drop my membership but I bet others may... if something 
doesn't come along to inspire everyone.

So:  Does anyone else think the encyclopedia/wiki suggestion is a 
good one?    Maybe if more than a scant handful speak up it might 
attract some official attention.
Or, has it already and we the unwashed masses just haven't been 
informed yet (other than those of us working on the Communique 
scanning project)?



tony..