POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Festival of POV : Re: Festival of POV Server Time
11 Aug 2024 23:15:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Festival of POV  
From: Jim Kress
Date: 25 Apr 1999 13:54:42
Message: <372348d2.0@news.povray.org>
You have a really warped sense of humor some times ...  :)

--
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Ken wrote in message <37234280.E873CDF4@pacbell.net>...
>Mick Hazelgrove wrote:
>>
>> Hi All
>>
>> How about an annual festival of pov where all pov artists contribute
their
>> best pic of the year and then advertise this widely in the graphics
>> newsgroups.
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Mick
>
> First - I'm all for promoting Pov-Ray and the artist inside all of us.
>
>  After seeing five replies which were for the most part positive I have
>not seen anyone bring up a few important questions in regard to the content
>of the posted message.
>
>>>> How about an annual festival of pov where all pov artists contribute
>
>1.) Who is going to manage and coordinate this festive ocassion ?
>    Someone should form a comittee to hold discussions on this issue.
>    Where this committee feels specific actions should be taken they
>    then can choose to splinter into seperate areas of concern and
>    form subcommities to further the dicussions toward deciding a
>    reasonable action for the area of concern in question.
>
>2.)   Where will the artwork be displayed and if the intention was to
>    post it here is the newsgroup administator going to be happy with
>    the extra file load ?
>
>3.)  Additionaly there was mention of advertizing the exsistence of this
>    contest to the outside graphics community. If the art were presented
>    here there is a good chance that there would be a large increase of
>    traffic that would be on a level not normaly seen on this server. I
>    ask again is this something the newsgroup administrator would like
>    on his nice, quite, cozy, and private little server ? How do you feel
>    about the possibility of added non Pov related traffic in your
>    groups ? Do you really want to invite that kind of crowd ?
>
>
>  I like to know about these sticky little details before my enthusiasm
>gets the better of me and thought I would at least raise these issues
>before anything concrete comes from it.
>
>Cherio,
>
>--
>Ken Tyler
>
>mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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