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Re: What Comes Next for the World Wide Panorama and the WWP Foundation? (3 of 3)
Robert Bilsland 2008-Oct-07 18:54:00
Don, Landis, and everyone else,
It's great to hear that behind the scenes you had the ball rolling
months ago, no one can really say that this happening was a surprise.
Maybe this happening signifies the start of the next "phase" for the
World Wide Panorama project, something that has the potential to be
very exciting.
Over the years I have really enjoyed taking part in each of the events
and look forward to whatever events there are to come in the future. I
also feel that my page itself is a great record of my progression in
creating panoramas.
So if there is anything I can do, please just ask, I'll do my best to
help. After all you all have helped myself and the rest of the
panoramic community for years.
Thanks again,
Robert Bilsland.
--- In #removed#, "G. Donald Bain" <dbain@...> 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
>