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Re: The state of the WWP
Eduardo Hutter 2015-Jan-22 20:27:00
Thank you Markus.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Yahoo Account #removed# [wwp]
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> Hi all,
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> I've been pretty quiet most of the time. In fact, the whole list has gone
> pretty quiet, so after some email back and forth with Landis and Bostjan,
> today I felt inspired to sit down (well, "stand up", actually ? I use one
> of those high desks for my computer stuff ? but I digress...)
>
> You may wonder what's going on at the WorldWidePanorama, and the honest
> answer is ? in recent months, not as much as we all would've liked. Bostjan
> is otherwise occupied, Don is making great panoramas, but sadly mostly away
> from digital civilization, and Landis is busy with approving and checking
> the panorama contributions if he's not flying jet airplanes for a living
> (man, some people have glorious lives ... ;-) .
>
> It's time to make a push for improvement!
> So I decided to put the thing that I've been working on (and off and on
> and off again) since 2013 into higher gear, and that thing is: a new WWP
> website! A big nod to Keith Martin who was a huge inspiration, looking at
> the rough working draft I had and setting me on the right path with a
> finger-painted mockup layout.
> What's it going to be? Leaner, "modern", "smart" (as in: adjusts to from
> desktop to mobile, supports flash, HTML5 and QTVR, mouse and touch, and
> scales/molds itself to sizes ranging from big screen to touch display).
> Still without annoying advertising, and the display focused on the thing
> we all care about: great panoramas. And do we ever have them! Since I'm
> currently building better thumbnails, I couldn't help but notice how huge a
> variety of locations, scenes and ideas we have in the WWP. More than 8000
> contributions! And not only have we been around for more than a decade, we
> are moving towards the 50th Event (in the 3rd quarter 2015). So I'm not
> ready yet to give up on the WWP. I want to see at least the 10,000 mark.
> Please help me out there :-)
> The first priority right now is getting the shiny and new front-end fully
> operational, so uploading/editing may still happen in our old dark-gray
> version.
>
> Can you take a look at the new site yet? Not quite, but I have made a huge
> amount of progress over the last three weeks.
> Also, I'm going to finally put the Twitter thing to use, and will be
> tweeting (ugh, what a word) tiny newsbits as I progress in building the
> website. I guess it's less annoying than plastering this yahoo group with
> mail. :-)
>
> https://twitter.com/worldwidepano
>
> Then there is our Google+ group, which goes by the rather non-intuitive
> URL of:
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> https://plus.google.com/communities/117016369644820881943
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> (that kind of URL is a thing that should not exist in the year 2015, now
> that I think about it). Oh well, it's there, and Bostjan has promoted me to
> moderator, so I'll be sharing things there as well, hoping for some kind of
> viral thing or other (but preferably only *after* the New WWP has gone
> live).
>
> In other news, I'm still not on Facebook. We do have a facebook ...
> "thing?" though, which I guess could use a bit of love and care, too.
> Here's the gateway to Zuckerberg's data warehouse masquerading as social
> network ...
> https://www.facebook.com/TheWorldWidePanorama
>
> That's it from me, for now! I'm going back to the coding pits because I
> want to see this thing fly before the summer (summer on the northern
> hemisphere, that is)
>
> -Markus
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