The agenda of the first meeting needs to cover +/- all the stuff listed on this page,
plus:
- - How to get all the Annual Reports on line?
- - Is it a good idea turn these web pages into a book ??
- - If so, how ???
I must have forgotten lots. Please send your suggestions to Richard H
1. Suggestion from Lesley Currah
Start a new photo album page, 'personalities of the 1980s' was my suggestion - why not?
2. Reply from Alan Scaife :-
It seems to me that the most practical way of writing up NVRS history
would be for each of us who is still kicking and willing to write about one sheet of A4
on which he/she summarises
a.. his own scientific work at HRI, citing up to a dozen main papers.
b.. sabbaticals and overseas visits and contacts.
c.. contributions to the social/sporting life.
d.. medals etc
Those near the top of the tree could concentrate on the administrative problems and history.
It would off course be nice if close colleagues could do one for those who have passed on.
Failing that, I hope you will manage to get the annual reports scanned and onto the internet.
3. In conversation with Hilary Fraser
Re Annual Reports
I still think optimum solution would be to get Google to scan the lot, beginning to end
See
http://books.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=43741
And
http://books.google.com/support/partner/bin/answer.py?answer=106169
But this needs a copyright waiver from someone.
A fall back could be to get volunteers to scan just the pages of staff lists
in each Ann report
Then I could make something like the Monks Wood Staff page
This was a nice A-Z list of everyone who had ever worked at M'W'
I see that they have now changed the format from comprehensive list of everyone
to a smaller number of mini-autobiographies + photos
Rather nice, but of course limited to the living and the responders
http://www.monks-wood.org.uk/5.html
Perhaps we could do both ...
Richard H
To Do list January 2010