THE FUTURE OF THIS FORUM - PLEASE READ

[jim_galli4]

I am very nearly computer illiterate and can't make a qualified

opinion on most of the tech issues.

 

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I will say that this site is the only one that has a shortcut on my

"personal toolbar" in Netscape. I've been to all the other ones to

investigate from time to time, but don't find myself going back. Why

is that? What is it about this site that makes it so classy?

Whatever it is I would certainly vote to maintain that character and

flavour. If it takes reaching into my pocket book, then that's what

it takes. Thank you Q Tuan Luong for keeping this place an island in

an ever increasing sea of "No Value."

 

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There was a thread a while back about equipment insurance. Maybe

there could be a subscriber fee that included equipment insurance in

the price. I'll shut up before I say anything even dumber.

 

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Very Best Regards to the people that make this site "special". Jim

[j.l._kennedy1]

I'm hoping that the forum can be continued with the ACS software,

which is a definate example of the beauty of simplicity. A while

back, after I acquired a Palm Vx with Minstrel V wireless modem and

installed a little Palm OS browser called AvantGo, I was pleasantly

surprised to find that this forum displayed perfectly and was

incredibly useable even at the blinding (not!) connection speed of

19.2k. Consequently I have spent many hours reading this forum in

bed next to my warm, sleeping wife rather than out in the cold family

room at the desktop machine. I'm hopeful that this will continue!

[joshwand]

<p>I've been a lurker here, and a semi-active participant in the <a

href=http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=People%

20Photography">People Photography</a> forum. I was a bit distressed

about the prospect of the greenspun servers going away, so I started

writing a facsimile of the q-and-a system in a more portable form

than ACS is (PHP/mySQL vs. AOLServer/ACS/Postgres/Oracle).

 

<p>The result is <a href="http://joshwand.com/q-and-

a/">http://joshwand.com/q-and-a/</a>. Mind you, it's not finished yet

(most notably missing are email notifications, but that will be added

within the next week or so), but the core functionality is there and

solid.

 

<p>My next task after polishing up the service to current levels is

to figure out how to move existing content-- I can write a spider, I

suppose, but I might ask philg if he can give me raw database dumps

of both the forums (and any others that might wish to move) so I can

import them directly into my new system.

 

<p>I also plan on releasing the source code so that others can

maintain similar services on most popular UNIX webhosts.

 

<p>How does this idea sit with the forum?

[tim_atherton2]

Hey - looks great. If you can get the email notification up and

running, it should be pretty cool.

 

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Yep, the existing material ont here would be a huge advantage

 

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Tim A

[tim_atherton2]

Outtages of this list all the time now... kinda annoying. Maybe it's

tame to take Josh up on his excellent offer and migrate the lsit to

somehwere that works?

 

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tim a

[psychophoto]

I'm down with that. All the outages, on top of being irritating, kind

of make me nervous. This forum and its archives along with

Luong's site are easily the two greatest LF resources on the web

and I'd hate to see the former lost. It's just too good to lose.

[wayne__]

yes, go Josh go, if this server is going to keep being trouble like it

has been

[clive_warren4]

I hope that this forum continues in it's present form - clearly a

useful resource to large format photographers.

 

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I hadn't visited for a while - I was pointed to a discussion here by

Tim Atherton who posted some URLs to the f32.net LargeFormat Mailing

List.

 

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Some of you may not be aware of f32.net Large Format Photography. We

run a Forum and a mailing list amongst other things. It is essentially

a Community of Practice for large format photography.

 

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If this board does (heaven forbid) go to the wall then there are

alternatives that have been running for a couple of years.

 

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Best Regards,

 

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Clive Warren http://www.f32.net