Hi All, 

I haven't been here for a while (good few years). Recently I have 
received a Google Wave invite, so I took a look, I have about five 
invites to give away (you get eight to give but I've already sent some 
out).  

I got my invite from someoen I know from these POV groups, we were 
discussing the possibility of using Google Wave to help with development 
of POV 4 maybe or helping with some kind of colaborative rendering 
project or even to help with something like the IMP (don't know if it's 
still going or not I've not received any messages for years).  

So if you'd like an invite send me an email, first come first served, and 
it'd be good if people think it's useful if you also send invites out to 
other POV people.  

There's a one hour twenty minute long video about Gooble Wave here: 
http://wave.google.com/     

When you set your account up there are many shorter videos and help 
articles included in your introductory messages that they send you.  

What I'm particularly interested in is interaction with other 
applications, if I find I have the time and resources I'd like to get 
stuck into some serious development work with this stuff, it's all open 
source, so you can download it all and start your own wave server (you 
can also embed waves into ordinary web pages).  It's still very 
experimental so doen't expect too much, I think the really big word which 
I'd associate with Google Wave is "POTENTIAL". 

Happy waving. 

-- 
Cheers
Steve

http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/

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Is there a Povray group on Wave at the moment or is it currently just a 
bunch of people who have each other as contacts?  If it's the latter, 
perhaps setting up a group would be a good idea (as far as I can tell, 
this can be done via Google Groups).

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Kevin Wampler wrote:
> perhaps setting up a group would be a good idea (as far as I can tell,
> this can be done via Google Groups).

Yeah, then let's put the mailing list into Gmane so it can be used from 
NNTP, right?

What's wrong with just using *these* newsgroups?? Why do we have to keep 
outsourcing things to Google?

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On 12/04/09 11:43, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Kevin Wampler wrote:
>> perhaps setting up a group would be a good idea (as far as I can tell,
>> this can be done via Google Groups).
>
> Yeah, then let's put the mailing list into Gmane so it can be used from
> NNTP, right?
>
> What's wrong with just using *these* newsgroups?? Why do we have to keep
> outsourcing things to Google?

	So that it can be on Google.

-- 
Vultures only fly with carrion luggage.

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On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:23:26 -0600, Neeum Zawan wrote:

> On 12/04/09 11:43, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> Kevin Wampler wrote:
>>> perhaps setting up a group would be a good idea (as far as I can tell,
>>> this can be done via Google Groups).
>>
>> Yeah, then let's put the mailing list into Gmane so it can be used from
>> NNTP, right?
>>
>> What's wrong with just using *these* newsgroups?? Why do we have to
>> keep outsourcing things to Google?
> 
> 	So that it can be on Google.

These groups can be searched on Google - I use it every once in a while.  
Just add "site:news.povray.org" to your search terms.

Jim

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Kevin Wampler wrote:
>> perhaps setting up a group would be a good idea (as far as I can tell,
>> this can be done via Google Groups).
> 
> Yeah, then let's put the mailing list into Gmane so it can be used from 
> NNTP, right?
> 
> What's wrong with just using *these* newsgroups?? Why do we have to keep 
> outsourcing things to Google?


I wasn't considering replacing this newsgroup with a Wave group, I just 
wanted a convenient way to have access the addresses of other Povray 
users on Wave -- mostly because I'm having fun playing with Wave right 
now but I only know a few people on it.

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On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:49:41 -0800, Kevin Wampler wrote:

> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> Kevin Wampler wrote:
>>> perhaps setting up a group would be a good idea (as far as I can tell,
>>> this can be done via Google Groups).
>> 
>> Yeah, then let's put the mailing list into Gmane so it can be used from
>> NNTP, right?
>> 
>> What's wrong with just using *these* newsgroups?? Why do we have to
>> keep outsourcing things to Google?
> 
> 
> I wasn't considering replacing this newsgroup with a Wave group, I just
> wanted a convenient way to have access the addresses of other Povray
> users on Wave -- mostly because I'm having fun playing with Wave right
> now but I only know a few people on it.

I think the confusion is that Google Groups isn't for creating "groups of 
users" but for creating "discussion groups".

Jim

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On 12/04/09 19:33, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:23:26 -0600, Neeum Zawan wrote:
>
>> On 12/04/09 11:43, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>> Kevin Wampler wrote:
>>>> perhaps setting up a group would be a good idea (as far as I can tell,
>>>> this can be done via Google Groups).
>>> Yeah, then let's put the mailing list into Gmane so it can be used from
>>> NNTP, right?
>>>
>>> What's wrong with just using *these* newsgroups?? Why do we have to
>>> keep outsourcing things to Google?
>> 	So that it can be on Google.
>
> These groups can be searched on Google - I use it every once in a while.
> Just add "site:news.povray.org" to your search terms.

	'Twas a joke.

-- 
Vultures only fly with carrion luggage.

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On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:27:15 -0600, Neeum Zawan wrote:

>>> 	So that it can be on Google.
>>
>> These groups can be searched on Google - I use it every once in a
>> while. Just add "site:news.povray.org" to your search terms.
> 
> 	'Twas a joke.

D'oh!  I'll go hide my head in shame for missing that. ;-)

Jim

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> I think the confusion is that Google Groups isn't for creating "groups of 
> users" but for creating "discussion groups".

It makes sense -- I merely mentioned it because I looked up (well, 
Googled) how to create a group in Wave and the main thing I found 
referred to doing so via creating a Google Group.  It;s certainly not a 
big deal though.

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