new idea from member

[Donald Dale Milne]

    Here's another idea from a member, Jim Van Dore. He talked with
Paul Levitz about a promotional comic Levitz is doing and Levitz asked
if someone at the GCD could get the info into our database if he sent us
a copy to document it. Jim notes that we do not have a procedure in
place for that, and thought perhaps we should. He suggests a person or
committee designated to receive small-press, promotional, or obscure
comics for inclusion in the database.  This person or committee would
then enter the data.  He did not offer ideas on what to do with any
comics after we enter the data.

    To solicit volunteer(s), he suggests promoting the position(s) on
the main page for a few months and, once we have designated someone,
setting up a link with a message like, "Have an item you'd like in the
database, but don't want to learn how to enter it yourself? Send it to us!".

    Thoughts, volunteers, pitfalls, ideas, discussion?

- Don

[Matthew Gore]

I think that's a fine idea. The comics could be used reward the indexer or maybe used for fundraising if enough turned up. I'm having this fantasy where someone sends in a stack of goldenage for us to index.

Matt

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[Scott Novick]

I agree. I also think a committee would be better than a single indexer so the work can be shared in case one person has something going on when these requests come in. I’d be willing to volunteer to be on the committee. 

A possible pitfall would be with sending the comics to the indexer, and also sending them back if the requester wants it. I would think it would need to be trackable to be able to identify where the comics are in transit, and even domestic priority mail and ground courier services (eg UPS or FedEx) hay gotten more expensive. Who would pay those costs?

— Scott

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[Donald Dale Milne]

    I think it might be useful to have a committee to receive the comics and index them.  Perhaps three members.  We could have any mailings come to our official address and I could then forward them to a committee member on a rotating basis.  This would cost us the postage involved.  Obviously, finding volunteers could be a problem.

    To be a useful option for publishers, we would need a method of advertising the service to that community.  Or, we could offer it by word-of-mouth as we happen to meet publishers, which would probably be infrequent.
 To dispose of the comics when we were done, we could send them back or we could allow our committee members to keep them, or we could somehow distribute them to members-at-large (rewards?).  The first method costs nothing but the other two methods would cost shipping charges.  If we returned comics, we could ask the publisher to pay for return shipping.

    I suspect that due to costs, most would just let us have the comics.  Actually, the initial shipping cost might be high enough that we would have very few submissions.  Maybe we would pick up a few at conventions if we identified committee members as GCD volunteers?

- Don Milne

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