Thanks for your willingness to coordinate. Below are some opinions of mine
(just some suggestions as feedback, I am not insisting on any of them):
>> Question: Would people prefer themed portfolios, just to provide some
coherency to what gets sent around, or not?
I think that with only about 12 responded so far, it might be easier to get
things going without themes. We all work in different themes or preferences,
and to participate in a themed circulation, we might have to take special
photos, make special images, etc. With 12 people, it might be hard to get
enough works for a theme, at least in the beginning. We can use theme later
if there are more participants.
>> My intent is that the portfolio will circulate to those who
contributed prints, and to those who ask to see it, with a maximum
circulation list of 12 people so it won't take forever to reach
everybody. (This implies that a portfolio won't contain more than 12
prints.)
Or if there aren't many contributors, each may submit more than 1 print. I
would certainly love to see more works of others.
>> - Provide comment upon it either to alt-photo or to the people portfolio
viewers. Would it be useful to set up per-portfolio mailing lists?
Maybe we can use some blank pages that viewers can add comments and circulate
along with the prints.
>> What about international viewers?
I personally would suggest domestic circulation in the beginning (unless we
have lots of international requests).
>> It can take a while for portfolios to circulate, and by the time the
last person sees it the first person may not remember the prints very
will. Would it be useful to provide low-res scans on a Web site as a
memory jogger?
That would be wonderful, but it takes time and lots of effort though. Are you
sure you will have time to handle this? :)
Thanks again for your volunteer work!
Dave Soemarko