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Re: Gardens: That's a wrap; Coming up next
wally_tirado 2006-Jul-18 15:29:00
In the upcoming event "Transportation" we might want to reconsider or
at the very least set some boundries on upcoming submission event.
Terrorists today target transportation systems (eg. subways or
airports) and having access in one place that they could view and
study their targets, I belevie should warrant some consideration.
--- In #removed#, Landis <landis@...> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I can't thank you all enough for your participation in this most
> recent WWP event. Gardens has turned out fantastic! With a final
> count of 317 contributions it's second in participation only to Best
> of 2005, and this event was only open for 5 days instead of a whole
> year. So congratulations to all of you for a job well done. It was
> great to see gardens and also some very creative interpretations of
> gardens from all over the globe.
>
> The final iteration of the site is now live with a couple additions
> (Don!) and minor changes from the original release on 4 July. Please
> have a look and don't forget the Google Earth placemark. The newest
> placemark (downloadable from http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp_all/
> index.html) will automatically update from now on with each new
> event. So if you've already got it since Gardens debut right-click
> and 'refresh' your link since a couple coordinates have been changed
> thanks to our geographic editor Thomas Rauscher (Thanks Thomas!).
>
> Final site stats:
> - 692 people have participated in at least one event
> - 2,322 separate contributions!
> - 317 participated in Gardens
> - 26 people have contributed to all 10 events (and another 16 have
> been with us for at least 9)!
>
> Coming up next:
>
> The next event is 20-24 September with the theme 'Transportation'.
> We've looked at the many suggestions for themes on the YG database
> (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp/database) (including Mobility,
> Movement/Dynamics, Railway, Road, Traffic, Train Stations of the
> World) and rolled them into one theme that we hope will give us all
> some creative challenges and some extremely interesting takes on the
> subject from around the world. The essay is currently missing, but I
> will get to that in the next 2 weeks (really, I promise). Other than
> that all of the information on the next theme can be found in the
> usual place (http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp/practical/
> NextEvent.html). Also please remember that I keep up to date an iCal
> Calendar (works w/ Outlook and any others that read ics files) for
> WWP deadlines, etc, at webcal://icalx.com/public/Landis/WWP.ics
>
> After Transportation in September we will once again offer a 'Best
> of' in lieu of a 4-7 day themed event. We really feel that this
> gives the WWP community a chance to participate with their favorite
> work done at any time in the last year. We've seen some great stuff
> in the past and will see much more in the future. So keep spinning
> and looking all around you for the moment that will give you your
> Best of 2006 contribution.
>
> ---
>
> Finally I want to offer a deep and sincere thanks to Markus for his
> amazing work on the WWP Prep Server. This awesome bit of software
> has really enabled all of us to create this WWP community and we're
> incredibly lucky to have such a capable, thorough, and giving person
> working with us. He has spent many, many (many!) hours at the
> keyboard to make this project what we see today and to make the rest
> of our jobs all that much easier. Thank you Markus!
>
> I've got a couple of other things that I want to reply to about web
> rings, comments, badges, etc. But that will have to wait until
> tomorrow. I've got some paying work to do for a little while now. :)
>
> Once again, thank you to everyone. Now to actually 'look' at all the
> contributions. :)
>
> -Landis
>