[5616] in APO Printshop
Re: Printshop stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Fri Feb 13 16:21:36 2009
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:22:26 -0500 (EST)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: Cat Thu Nguyen Huu <catthu@MIT.EDU>
cc: apo-printshop-journeyman@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <E5118203-4287-4EAF-A70F-EED929254F63@MIT.EDU>
hi cat
just to you and the journeymen
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:50:44 -0500
From: Cat Thu Nguyen Huu <catthu@MIT.EDU>
2/ I'm planning to get the pricing up on the website, and will contact the
webmaster (who I'm not sure is Ian or Sarah) about that.
if you decide to put prices up on the website or not put them up,
we should first conduct a review of the current prices,
and see if we need to raise them.
the reason, is the standing chapter policy that (to quote it):
"The Letterpress Shop shall be financially self-sufficient and not use
other funds of the Chapter."
it's been several decades since the shop raised prices.
prices on everything has gone up alot since then.
i'm pretty sure we should raise some, if not all the prices.
see me in person for my thoughts on putting together a proposal,
or if you like, i can do a proposal in a few weeks.
we can then pass it by the journeymen, and after that the press
operators.
4/ ...
I'm not sure how hosed/busy the journeymen are/ will be, so
please let me know if you're available to train any time in the next 2
months.
i'll do as much training and qualifying as i can. maybe as much as
one run a week, sometimes more. depends on when people can schedule
with me, more than anything else.
6/ I know some people who're working on becoming a journeyman. If
you want to be one and don't think that I know about it, please
tell me!
* who would like to become journeymen,
which means being able to train and qualify?
* not clear to me how they are working on it.
as we journeymen have usually handled elevating a press operator to
journeyman on a case-by-case basis
e.g. we use to have freshman come in with several years of printing
experience in high school and before.
they could get fast tracked to journeyman
do you want me to talk with the journeymen to try and come up with
some clear guidelines about how-to-become a journeyman?
but people who would like to become a journeyman, should do as many
jobs as they can, experience counts, among other things
Cat
PS. I just asked Donald and he said he's unsure (short
version). I'll ask him again later.
who's donald, and what are you asking him about?
thanx!
yiLFS -len
