Re: Press/ Talk in Ventura CA

[Tom Droege <droege@wwa.com>]

Chris and all,

One more thing (after an earlier private message to Chris),  where I come
from, we all use overhead projectors.  35 mm slides are always a pain in
the neck to make work.   Also harder to point at.  Now that color printers
are cheap, and work well on film, I think that is the way to go.   Then we
can just circulate .jpg files over the internet.  They come out just fine
for a talk in a size that is not too hard to transmit.   Just use a color
printer and transparency film.  I can send you a nice group.  Better still,
we can make a gallery for the web site, then someone giving a talk can just
download what he wants.  I will work on this.

Someone with more experience than I with pictures might suggest a standard
format.  I.e. scan items for a finished image size of xx kbytes??

Tom 


At 04:01 PM 4/3/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Tom Droege wrote:
>> 
>> One or two of you might get a call from Terri of the Daily Herald.
>> (Batavia, IL)  I just
>> did an interview brought on by a write up in the Ferminews.  She showed
>> interest in talking to some of the rest of tass.  She has the AAS press
>> release phone list.  Be sure to explain in language suitable for the
>> general public.
>
>This reminds me,  I have been meaning to ask this and keep forgetting.
>
>I got a call from someone looking for a speaker for a (somewhat) 
>local astronomy club.  He described what must be a typical club,
>200 members, 50~100 at meetings.. All very much interested in
>astronomy (enough to get up and go to a meeting) but widely varying
>technical backgrounds.
>
>I agreed conditionally to a 1 hour talk.  I said it would only be
>interesting if I could get support from other TASS members, other
>wise I'd just be talking about myself.  I'd need material contributed
>from those doing work.  Pictures, pictures.  That is
>what people like to see.  Pictures of yourself, your equipment and
>then stars.  After that graphs and plots of data.  To keep 
>a group's attention for
>an hour I'd have to roll together some personal stories with pictures
>of the person, some technical stories and some science.  Anyone
>have source material to contribute?  Anyone want to be an editor?
>Newspaper clips, Post cards that show the area where a TASS site
>is located,  Anything.  I will wait until my MkIII system is working,
>debugged and routinely productive before I agree to give the talk.  So 
>we are looking at a date this summer.  I figure on putting all material
>onto 35mm slides.  These slides would be available to others who may
>be invited to speak.  Ideally I'd like a full tray of 80 slides
>put that is a +lot+ of work to prepare.  I don't really want to spend
>that many hours preparing the presentation but also don't want to
>go unless I can do a good job.  So I am hopping for material from 
>others that I can reuse.  I will of course, state that I cannot
>speak for the whole group but in the minds of most listeners I will
>be doing just that no matter how many disclaimers I make.  So I'd
>like to be inclusive and I'd welcome suggested outlines, topics
>to cover, advice, photos or whatever,
>
>The club is in Ventura CA.  If anyone else is local and would be
>willing to go there let me know, the more the better.
>
>
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>--Chris Albertson
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