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Re: What Comes Next for the World Wide Panorama and the WWP Foundation? (3 of 3)
AYRTON 2008-Oct-07 01:59:00
My dear friend Don
and also Landis and Markus
Count on me to support the new era !
I'll try to keep participating, and trying to spread the WWPanorama world in
my country, Brazil and to the world
anything that I can do, please write me and let me know
If I can ... I will.
Cheers my friends
A Y R T O N
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:49 PM, G. Donald Bain <#removed#
> wrote:
> The first challenge, obviously, is to secure a replacement server so
> that we can keep the site on-line without interruption when the
> university cuts us off on December 20. This has already been done - we
> now have an account with Dream Host with unlimited disk space and
> unlimited bandwidth. Best of all, once our non-profit status has been
> certified by the IRS, the account wil be free.
>
> Markus Altendorff has already moved the entire existing site and the
> prep server to the new location for testing. The new url will be
> WorldWidePanorama.org. (There is nothing there now that you can see,
> just a temporary redirect.) We also own the dot-com and dot-net
> domains, which will be transferred to the new host and direct to the
> same site.
>
> The next item will be to clear up the very important issue of
> copyright. The conditions are sufficiently different that we feel it
> best to secure a new authorization from every participant for every
> entry. We hope that this will not be controversial - the WWP will
> still be run by an educational organization, and for the same
> purposes. We will, in effect, be running ourselves.
>
> The process of securing all those permissions will be a challenge,
> both technical and administrative. Our goal will be to offer as much
> of the current site as possible under the new sponsorship.
>
> The next event, "Best of 2008" will be under the new arrangement,
> sponsored by the Foundation instead of the university. As much of the
> existing site as we can obtain permission for will appear with it, but
> the rest will be hidden. The process of reauthorization may go on for
> some time.
>
> The geography chairman has promised to sign over all rights to
> copyright of the site itself and to the names World Wide Panorama and
> WWP. Once we have established our public use of these terms we will
> trademark them. With the consolidation of these rights we will be in a
> strong position to respond to any sort of infringement (such as the
> ZKM incident).
>
> Other than the change of sponsorship the WWP will continue with little
> change, running four quarterly events in 2009 and publishing the web
> site. But there is great potential for other activities that pursue
> the same goals. More about that later.
>
> Don and Landis
>
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