RE: Portfolio circulation proposal
Korfhage, Willard (Willard-Korfhage@deshaw.com)
Mon, 04 Aug 1997 11:50:52 -0400
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>From: FotoDave@aol.com [SMTP:FotoDave@aol.com]
>Sent: Monday, August 04, 1997 10:24 AM
>To: Korfhage, Willard; alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: Portfolio circulation proposal
>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.
>[Korfhage, Willard] I agree, and thought that we would start off quite
>general.
>
>>> 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.
>[Korfhage, Willard] This keeps down the email noise, but early recipients
>can't see the later comments.
>
>>> What about international viewers?
>
>I personally would suggest domestic circulation in the beginning (unless we
>have lots of international requests).
>[Korfhage, Willard] I don't know how much internationl demand there will be.
>Email me if you are interested and are outside the US. Otherwise, I won't
>spend time solving problems that don't exist.
>
>>> 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? :)
>[Korfhage, Willard] I don't know. I view it as secondary, so if it doesn't
>happen, no great loss. The scanning is easy, but right now I don't have a
>personal web site I could put it on (ironic given that my job is developing
>the programs behind a financial services web site). Mainly I put this out to
>see if it would interest people or not. I might well ask for help on
>implementing this.
>
>Thanks again for your volunteer work!
>
>Dave Soemarko
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