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Re: Gardens: That's a wrap; Coming up next
c b arun kumar 2006-Jul-18 20:19:00
Hi Wally
are you meaning to toe the line that photographic
access to a location promotes terrorism?
Just becuse we will put up one pano each from 300 plus
locations over the globe terrorists are going to study
our panos and plan their future targets?
Lets get real people who have access to bombs and guns
probably have access to satellites, miniature cameras
that security forces may not even see then handling or
using.
Just a few days ago in Mumbai, India, LET Islamic
Militants staged a horrific bomb attack on varuous
trains killing 200+ people by merely planting
suitcases in crowded suburban trains!
I dont think a WWP on Transportation could be a
security threat! Any more than any of the zillion pics
of millions of well known locations all over the world
easily available on the net.
So let us not even start on such non-issues!
C B ArunKumar
--- wally_tirado <#removed#> wrote:
> In the upcoming event "Transportation" we might want
> to reconsider or
> at the very least set some boundries on upcoming
> submission event.
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> 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
> >
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