[Digitalarchivists] Update

[John Shutt]

The next few days are going to be pretty busy for me with taxes and
consultancy work, but I'll come if I can! Exciting about the cameras.

John
On Apr 12, 2015 6:49 PM, "newmy51 at gmail.com" <newmy51 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lots of info.  Will try and keep it brief:
>
> I am ordering all the various missing parts, including cameras (found a
> possibly too-good-to-be-true deal on Canon's website on refurbished
> A2500s), for the Reetz 2.0 scanner, and will soon have a full tally of
> expenditures to date.  I'm not asking that anyone pony up any cash now or
> anytime in the future, but those of you reading this who constitute the
> "core crew" (myself, Dany Q, John, Andrew) have, in the past, expressed an
> interest in sharing costs, and indeed have already pitched in on the first
> Reetz scanner.  The bookkeeping I do will just be to keep track and give
> anyone the opportunity to monetarily contribute who wants to, nothing
> more.  More on that soon.
>
> Second, those of us who have been following the build instructions for the
> Reetz 2.0 scanner (hopefully) read the part about Daniel retiring, or at
> least heard me mention it.  It's true, it's sad, and it makes sense.  See
> the official thread on that retirement here:
>
> http://diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3161
>
> A man by the name of Jonathon Duerig (http://jonathonduerig.com/) is
> taking over.  All orders are now being shipped out of Salt Lake City via
> Tenrec Builders.  Jonathon is currently taking pre-orders for Reetz 2.0
> kits, currently listed at $1200 a pop, which gives you an idea of what a
> nice guy Daniel is for sending us 95% of one for nothing more than the cost
> of shipping.  If Jonathon does not get enough pre-orders to fund the first
> batch of 25 kits in the pre-order window (unknown duration), the assembly
> line will go quiet, perhaps for good.  I would like to try and get the word
> out to keep Daniel and Jonathon's very good thing going.  I figure we owe
> them at least that much.
>
> This coming Tuesday is the next MSSF council meeting, at which time a
> decision will be made about the society library.  If they go for
> Noisebridge as the new location, I will have to start planing the move and
> install, as well as a secure storage alternative to the society's enormous
> locking wooden cabinets.  I welcome and encourage any and all entirely
> optional help on that front.
>
> Lastly, it's high time we ramp/clean up our wiki, which I believe we can
> certainly accomplish with the resources present among the current group
> members.  That alone could be a meeting's worth of work.
>
> So who's up for Wednesday?
>
> -Danny
>
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