Re: Press/ Talk in Ventura CA

[Chris Albertson <chrisa@wavenet.com>]

Tom Droege wrote:
> 
> 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??

Yes an electronic set would be more usful.  People then could deside
on
there own which presentation media to use.  Video projectors 
are popular too.   (Still it is hard to beat the quality of 35mm
slides
especially for photos.)

As for file format I would suggest HTML.  Everyone can read it and
it allows mixed text and pictures.

So much for technical stuff.  "Content" is harder.  I can put
something
together all by myself but the end product will be more interresting
if
it has input from a wider group.  So again I'll invite suggestions
and/or
source material, light curves, photos or just ideas about what people
who go to those meeting would like to hear about.

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