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Re: North/Eastern WWP celebration. Was Re: Were you never a novice yourselves when you started ?
Alex Makienko 2005-Jan-24 00:54:00
OK Yuv, we'll discuss the beer issues later. :-)
IMHO forum in this case is not an issue of interface but of accesibility of
the data for newcomers. It is just my opinion, I wouldn't like to press
anyone.
Cheers,
Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: "yuval levy" <#removed#>
To: <#removed#>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: North/Eastern WWP celebration. Was Re: Were you never
a novice yourselves when you started ?
>
> Ok Alex, no big cities, but big beers and a good bed
> and breakfast (no drink and drive). Let's do this with
> partners?
>
> Re forum, I am allergic to web based interfaces. They
> are inefficient. Hard disk space today is really no
> issue, and even the poor search function of MS Outlook
> is good enough to locate a message in a folder. I can
> detail you an even more efficient solution, but I
> guess this group has had enough of my off-topic
> postings.
>
> For those who do not bother to keep local copies of
> all messages, gmane.org is an excellent repository,
> and the best is that it can interface into your
> favorit newsreader, so no troubles with the
> inefficient and often useless web based interfaces.
>
> Yuv
>
>
> --- Alex Makienko <#removed#> wrote:
>
>>
>> Yuv,
>>
>> No huge cities please. :-) Montreal is a great and
>> beautiful city but too
>> crazy for me. I'm a rural guy and hate driving in
>> there. We'll better find
>> something else around - Coteau-du-Lac or something
>> like that. :-)
>>
>> Regarding the forum - I'm not a member of IVPRA but
>> I do have an access to
>> the forum. I've registered a couple of days after it
>> has been announced.
>> Maybe things have been changed since? Anyway I would
>> strongly support the
>> idea of slowly moving most of the technical
>> discussions there. If you want
>> to keep all the postings for future (I do sometimes
>> despite of I do not need
>> most of them right now) It is almost impossible to
>> find something in your
>> mailbox in a few months even with proper "room
>> signs" (otherwise you have to
>> spend a lot of time to get them filtered and
>> well-structured). See, Hans and
>> other Masters posted plenty of good advises here but
>> can you find here
>> anything posted a year ago or before you joined the
>> list? Message board will
>> save a lot of time for serching an information and
>> also to post it - no need
>> to answer a question already answered before...
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> > Hi Alex,
>> >
>> > Let's fix the place once we see who is interested?
>> if
>> > there are no guys from the Atlantic provinces, we
>> can
>> > shift the meeting point somewhere closer to
>> Ontario.
>> >
>> > Not that Quebec-City is not a great place to
>> party. I
>> > have seen a number of beautiful panoramic artworks
>> > from people in the province of Quebec, but have
>> not
>> > had direct contact with most of them and am not
>> sure
>> > about whether they will contribute to the next
>> event.
>> >
>> > And maybe there are some New England or even New
>> York
>> > people who care to join?
>> >
>> > Montreal is closer to Ontario and to the US.
>> >
>> > As far as the other topic goes, I am not a member
>> of
>> > IVRPA and have not found access to their forum
>> without
>> > being a member. I prefer information to be out in
>> the
>> > free - check the gmane.org interface to the
>> panotools
>> > yahoo list - a great tool.
>> >
>> > Yuv
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --- Alex Makienko <#removed#> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Yuval Levy wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Let's party! What about an April 2 meeting to
>> >> > celebrate the publication of the WWP market
>> event?
>> >> At
>> >> > a real pub, with real drinks and snacks?
>> >>
>> >> Count me in Yuv. If there is no snowstorm here in
>> >> Eastern Canada in April
>> >> it's not a big deal for me to ride to your place.
>> >> :-) I hope we may get a
>> >> good team for the beer - Rob, Jim and me from
>> Ottawa
>> >> and you, Quebec guys.
>> >> :-)
>> >>
>> >> Speaking seriously this is a good point - getting
>> an
>> >> initial information for
>> >> the beginner is not easy. I remember how I've
>> >> started two years ago. And by
>> >> the way not only for the beginners. Unfortunately
>> we
>> >> rarely use IQTVRA
>> >> (sorry, IVPRA now) forum. Message board of this
>> kind
>> >> is the thing which is
>> >> much easier to navigate, filtering and all the
>> >> information posted there is
>> >> always available independently when you've
>> >> subscribed and it's possible to
>> >> get the info structured and well-organised. For
>> the
>> >> purpose of collecting
>> >> and keeping really useful data the message board
>> is
>> >> much better than the
>> >> mailing list. And there is no problem to create
>> any
>> >> nessesary room and sign
>> >> on the door. :-)
>> >>
>> >> Maybe we will try to use IVPRA forum more for
>> >> discussions and leave this
>> >> mailing list mostly for announcements?
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Alex
>> >> www.dimensions360.com
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > --- Bernhard Vogl <#removed#> wrote:
>> >> >> Maybe it would be a good idea to have two
>> signs
>> >> on
>> >> >> the door (WWP Website):
>> >> >> One for the technical interested (Panotools
>> List)
>> >> >> One for the organization (WWP List)
>> >> >>
>> >> >> So everyone who enters knows the correct
>> room...
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Best regards
>> >> >> Bernhard
>> >> >>
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