POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Geocities Follow-up : Re: Geocities Follow-up Server Time
30 Apr 2024 04:01:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Geocities Follow-up  
From: Jim Holsenback
Date: 25 Sep 2009 10:23:55
Message: <4abcd27b@news.povray.org>
Great work Chris .... I've made some progress in getting the links pages on 
povray.org migrated over to the Wiki. Once some of this stuff has been 
tracked down and new homes have been found, the task of refreshing the links 
page will be much eaiser! Kudos!

"Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote in message 
news:4abcaa2b$1@news.povray.org...
> As per Mike's note; Geocities is closing all its free websites on 26th 
> October.
>
> I've been quickly through the 439 pages that I could find that mention 
> POV-Ray - Many only mention it in passing.
> I've picked out ones that I think might be of interest and split them out 
> into 3 groups; Galleries, Information/Tutorials and downloadable goodies.
>
> Personally I only intend to look any further at the pages containing 
> downloadable source to see if there's anything that can be harvested into 
> the POV-Ray Object Collection.
> I don't plan to do anything further with the other pages in the other 
> lists.
>
> I've published all 3 lists in case anyone is passionate enough about the 
> other two to pursue anything there.
> The lists contain hyperlinks to the pages, plus hyperlinks to English 
> translations, for those pages that are not in English.
> I've included a very brief note about what I saw in the very brief time 
> that I spent poking around each site.
>
>
> Objects and Utilities
> --------------------
> There are about 80 pages where there seem to be downloadable objects or 
> utilities. I'll be looking at them more closely to try and work out 
> whether there's stuff that can be saved. If you are the author of anything 
> on that list, please let me know ASAP.  Any assistance with this effort 
> would be most welcome.
> See: http://povhouse.freewebsites.com/geocities/objects.html
>
> Galleries
> ---------
> I found 71 pages from about 35 different people:
> See: http://povhouse.freewebsites.com/geocities/galleries.html
> If you know these people it might be polite to make sure they're aware 
> that their hard work is shortly going down the pan.
>
>
> Tutorials and Tips
> ------------------
> I found 30 pages from 10 authors
> See: http://povhouse.freewebsites.com/geocities/wiki.html
>
>
> Regareds,
> Chris B


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