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Re: New Leadership at the WWP
jean-guy lathuilière 2008-Dec-19 06:12:00
That's great ! Congratulations and welcome !
By the way : merry Xmas & happy new year to all.
Jean Guy Lathuili?re
Le 19 d?c. 08 ? 01:24, G.Donald Bain a ?crit :
> 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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