Gerry: As you know you sent the "Official" pdf to John for
the website and to myself for the wiki about 4 days ago. I can
appreciate all the hard work involved since I have to retype
the whole thing to place onto the wiki ,plus tons of
formatting and images. Thank you for your work as awards
chair. We agree that it would be released at noon CDT on
Thursday provided Jim had reached medal winners. Because John
sent a message that Lunar Services (our website host) was
having problems I thought it wise to include your pdf onto the
wiki. Normally I have a link to the website, but this time I
placed the pdf onto the wiki itself. News & Notes still
attempted to link to the website but as feared it was not
there. It only took me about 2 minutes to display your pdf as
awards chair. If I had access to the website I could have done
likewise. Since I could not view the display on the wiki
without the world seeing it, I did not put that up until about
20 minutes before the time and then frantically tried to fix
any errors that I could see. Unfortunately I had to leave for
a doctors appointment after that (when N&N came out) and
as soon as I returned I fixed all the errors that people
noticed. If anyone has suggestions as to how this process
could be improved I welcome suggestions.
Â
Hopefully the gallery on the wiki will continue to expand
such that all award winners will be pictured. Everyone can
help by sending better images of those that do not have images
or have few to choose from. For the galleries, images that are
roughly square work best. Obviously in the short time period
of three days there is limited work that could be done and
certainly I would like to see more. But I get limited
feedback, in that only a few people privately have said they
appreciate all of this work. Most of the time I have to depend
on my own notion of what I would like to see. Certainly the
few people that have expressed what they would like to see
have been rewarded with that result.
Â
As with anything down by man, there will be errors. We find
errors on the wiki and they are corrected. But this constant
revisiting entries has discovered errors in the Iris Register
, the website, and many other sources. THERE IS NOTHING
PERFECT. We can only strive for perfection. I thank all of
those who reported problems. I may have answered rather
briefly because I was anxious to fix them. As for those news
blasts on Facebook, everyone knows that the fastest news is
not always the most accurate.
From: "Gerry Snyder"
<7e2de1ee1@rewrite.aisboard.org>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 12:12:10 AM
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Error on the award winner
list
Isn't the official information the PDF list from
the Awards Chair posted on the AIS Web site?
Gerry Snyder
On Aug 13, 2015 8:30 PM, "George and
Janet Smith" <
4f80107e1@rewrite.aisboard.org>
wrote:
But
if Susan had not mentioned it I would have thought what I
had was
correct, gone on with my very important project and not
noticed
errors. That would have been very bad for the final
outcome of my
project.
It needs to be known or we would not be able to correct
anything. If
Susan was not to mention it here - where are we to learn
we
downloaded the wrong information????? Remember it is all
over
FACEBOOK and they don't know it is wrong!
Janet Smith
Image Coordinator
---- Original Message ----
From: 1005@rewrite.aisboard.org
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Error on the award winner list
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:40:56 -0400
>Susan,
>
>Error corrections should be sent to Bob Pries not AIS
Discuss. I
>found a
>couple more that are being corrected as I write this.
>
>Jim Morris
>President
>American Iris Society
>
>
>In a message dated 8/13/2015 12:31:21 P.M. Central
Daylight Time,
>100T@rewrite.aisboard.org
writes:
>
>
>Hi all,
>I was just looking at the award winners on the irisÂ
wiki and for the
>
>Wister winners I noticed that Money in Your Pocket is
a winner, but
>it has
>Keppel as the hybridizer. That is an error as MoneyÂ
in Your Pocket
>is actually
>hybridized by Paul Black.
>Just thought that I would let all know.
>Susan Boyce
>=
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