[Helpers] history with volunteers.

[Mystress Angelique Serpent]

Sandra Dee wrote:
 > I understand this is your Round 2 (at least) with volunteers.

   Hmm, yes and no. The volunteers I referred to as trouble, were mostly 
for other projects. Most notably, the K-list which already has downloadable 
templates, and pages instructing potential new volunteers, as you suggest.

   The K-list was mostly where people would offer to help but really only 
wanted attention. Too many stories, one example:

    Every year I ask for volunteers to update the K-gateway's many pages of 
links, delete the deadwood and find new ones, but nobody ever really did 
the job like Percyval... and he retired from it when his health got worse.
    some did a page or two then disappeared, some deleted the "file has 
moved" links instead of updating them, or did not run the test a few hours 
apart and deleted important links that were not dead, had only busy, timed 
out. A few times I had to trash what I got back, and replace the file from 
my archives because the code had been messed up so much.

    FST has been a one woman show except at the very beginning, my Tribe 
were great, helped me with the link finding, Percyval transcribed all the 
videos, and Jasper wrote a guest essay for the sacred sexuality lesson, 
that I will probably delete this time because it never did make much 
sense... but I was glad of their support!

    That is maybe why I am sorta gushing with too much information 
sometimes. I haven't had anybody interested in hearing about my work on the 
course in this way, before.

   Having people... experienced web designers!!! actually interested!! in 
the nuts and bolts of the FST site!!!, the history!! and how! it came to 
be! as it is!!!, is really!! new!! and thrilling!!!!!!!!!!!!

   I am experimenting putting my assorted ramblings into new posts and 
threads...