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Re: New Leadership at the WWP
Robert Bilsland 2008-Dec-19 13:04:00
Don, Landis and the other new Directors,
Thanks for all the work that everyone is putting in behind the scenes.
This really does signify the start of the next chapter for the World
Wide Panorama project. So much seems to have been done in so little
time, but I'm sure that there are still great things to be achieved
just over that next horizon.
Here's looking forward to the future.
Bob Bilsland.
--- In #removed#, G. Donald Bain <dbain@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
>