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Re: New Leadership at the WWP - Welcome
Aleksandar Janicijevic 2008-Dec-19 02:39:00
Congratulations to all the new members of the board of directors. I am
quite sure that these deserving individuals are going to contribute
significantly to the WWP.
I wish all the luck to the directors, and of course to all of us
members of WWP, in this occasion of the new beginning and in WWP
future projects.
Aleksandar Janicijevic, Toronto, Canada
On 18-Dec-08, at 8:09 PM, Bo Lorentzen wrote:
> Don
>
> Thank you for the introduction and looking forward to the future
> with WWP
>
> Bo
>
> From: #removed# [mailto:#removed#] On Behalf Of G.
> Donald Bain
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 4:25 PM
> To: #removed#
> Subject: New Leadership at the WWP
>
> I am very pleased to be able to announce a major step in building the
> new World Wide Panorama Foundation. Landis and I met last week to nail
> down many of the legal and administrative details. Most importantly we
> appointed three additional directors.
>
> Please welcome Markus Altendorff, Bostjan Burger, and Keith Martin to
> the board of directors!
>
> Their names and work will doubtless be familiar to most of you. The
> five of us will be directing the new course of the WWP.
>
> Markus Altendorff first participated in the event Bridges in 2004.
> Shortly thereafter he volunteered to produce a map of all the
> locations represented, followed by an improved map, then he built in
> more and more features. The result was the wonderful "prep server"
> that we all use to prepare our entries to each event. If it wasn't for
> his work on the site and the database behind it the WWP would have
> foundered long ago, overwhelmed by the flood of submissions coming
> every three months.
>
> We are also beholden to Markus for most of the site design including
> all the custom icons. He prefers to work behind-the-scenes for the
> most part, but sometimes answers questions on the lists. His most
> recent effort has been to move the entire WWP site and prep server
> from the old server at the university to the new WWP Foundation
> server. I think of him as the "wizard of the Black Forest" for the way
> he always produces, magically, something better than requested.
>
> Bostjan Burger has participated in the WWP since the beginning, but we
> had met (on-line) even before that. We both had personal sites
> featuring waterfalls and I encouraged him to try VR technology. He has
> since then produced an incredible body of work, including
> comprehensive documentation of the cultural and physical landscapes of
> his native country of Slovenia. I believe it to be the only country so
> thoroughly documented, and it is all his own work.
>
> Bostjan has developed a specialty in the photography of caves, for
> which Slovenia is famous, and seems to have also climbed every hill
> and mountain there. His site of 7500 VR panoramas is published by the
> prestigious Academic Research Network Server (ARNES) of Slovenia. It
> covers not only Slovenia but several adjacent countries and a few as
> far afield as South America. Truly an impressive body of work, and a
> testament to his dedication to the educational use of VR.
>
> Keith Martin is a well-known member of the PanoTools and other lists
> and has helped many of us out with advice and technical assistance. He
> also teaches at the London College of Communication where he is a
> Senior Lecturer in Publishing, teaching design, typography, production
> and editorial issues across a number of different degree and
> postgraduate courses. He has also been working on introducing panorama
> photography to some of those courses. His personal work in VR
> photography often features challenging subjects, with a lot of night
> shots and many people in view.
>
> Keith has written a number of books on design and technology subjects,
> including Creative Suite 3 Integration and the Haynes Mac Manual, and
> he is also the technical editor of MacUser magazine in the UK. His
> communication skills and broad familiarity with technology will be
> very valuable to us as we develop educational aspects of the WWP's
> mission.
>
> The WWP Foundation Bylaws provide for up to seven board members, so
> after the present rush of work subsides we may be adding two more to
> the team. There are also plans for special committees and regional
> coordinators - so we may be contacting a number of you in the near
> future.
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