"SharkD" <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
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> As per the discussion in Advanced Users, lots of GeoCities pages will soon 
> be lost. I was wondering if it would be worth it to create an effort to 
> contact authors of Povray pages to either 1) move their site somewhere 
> else, or 2) submit their work to the Object Collection.
>
> I know that GeoGebra has a special area where users can upload documents 
> and create web pages describing their usage.
>
> -Mike


I've been giving this some thought. Here's what I'd suggest we do:

I've generated a list from Google of pages on the geocities.com domain that
refer to povray and posted it at
http://povhouse.freewebsites.com/geocities_sites.html

A lot just contain links to povray.org or just mention POV-Ray in passing.
I've got about half way through a 'first-pass' to try and pick out which 
ones
contain potentially interesting material. My guess is that, at the end of 
this first pass, there's likely to be around 40-50 pages of interest, from 
probably about 15-20 authors. (Any help with completing this little exercise 
would be most welcomed).

Google suppresses some valid results (even when you tell it not to), so if
you think the list is missing any interesting geocities sites or if you
think I've overlooked any good stuff on the sites where I've marked the
'Action required' field as 'None' then let me know.  Otherwise we can
probably quickly focus efforts on quite a small number of authors:


Include files/ Macros etc
-------------------------
As Thomas mentions there's quite a lot from Chris Colefax. Anyone know if 
he's still around?
There are a few other object and macro sites by various authors.

Would anyone like to investigate to see if these sites already give
permission that would cover redistribution or whether they can
track down authors to get permission to 'save' their
work?

I'd be happy to put in some time adapting stuff to satisfy the Object
Collection naming standards if the author is willing to let us put work on
the Object Collection on a CC-LGPL license.


Advice & Tutorials
-------------------
It might be good to capture some of this sort of stuff on the Wiki
(subject to permissions from the author)
Would anyone like to pursue that?


Galleries
--------
There are some nice little galleries of images. It may be possible to
contact authors just to make them aware of the impending closure and see if
they want to move their work to alternative free web sites.

Anyone want to take on the task of contacting people to check that they know 
what's happening?


Regards,
Chris B.

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