From: photo@cs.ubc.ca (Photo-swap central)
Newsgroups: rec.photo
Subject: Photo-swap  Theme Portfolio status
Date: 7 Jan 1993 22:02:36 -0800
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: lucille.cs.ubc.ca
Summary: The theme Photo-swap Portfolios are back.. here's how and why.
Keywords: Pictures, distribution, view, physical, history, photo-swap


For those people who are wondering what's happening with the new theme 
portfolios, what happened is that I posted a query, last month, asking 
what had happened to them, and would anybody be interested in restarting 
them. -- 
Well, I ended up getting a message from The Man (Brian Godfrey), who had 
run the previous theme portfolios. Brian's current job keeps him out of 
touch too often for him to feel that he could run the portfolios. The 
result is that I've decided to take on the portfolios, and Brian Will be 
giving me coaching and support. 

For the time being, I'll basically be running things the way that Brian 
did.  (He's got the experience, I've got the time, I'm not stupid, I want 
to start with a working system.)  The system that Brian used (and that 
I'll 
be using) is as follows:

Nominations for themes open.       First of month 1
Nominations close, voting opens        10th of month 1
Ballots tallied, portfolio announced   20th of month 1
Pictures in my mailbox get sent out    30th of month *2*

Brian sent a nice display (below) which shows how things work..
The upshot is that, after January we will actually be running two 
portfolios in a simple pipeline format. (In the case of this portfolio, we 
get shortchanged because I posted a day late, AND the theme ends in Feb., 
so the closing date will still be Feb. 30th (er, um, Mar 2)

to quote brian:
   |         First Month             |           Second Month            |
   +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
   1         10         20         30 1          10          20         30
   |          |          |          | |           |           |          |
   ^Open nominations (Portfolio #1) | |           |           |          |
              |          |          | |           |           |          |
              ^Close nominations, post ballot (Port. #1)      |          |
                         |          | |           |           |          |
                         ^Tally ballots, announce Portfolio #1.          |
                                    | |           |           |          |
                                    ^(Previous portfolio photos due.)    |
                                      |           |           |          |
                                      ^Open nominations (P #2)|          |
                                                  |           |          |
             Close nominations, post ballot (P #2)^           |          |
                                                              |          |
                         Tally ballots, announce Portfolio #2.^          |
                                                                         |
                              Photos due in your mailbox for Portfolio #1^

   Etc.  That gives people from the 20th of the month until the 30th of the
   following month to make and send in their photos. ....
   As photos arrived, I number them and put the photographers' name
   on a mailing list.  ....  When the deadline arrives, stick the 
   photos in an envelope with cardboard to keep the photos from being
   bent and send them to the first person on the list.
_________________

One interesting idea, which is becomming more and more feasable, as time 
goes on, is electronic submission/viewing of images.  With the Kodak 
Photo-CDs, cheap color printers and scanners, and higher resolution color 
displays, sending and receiving images electronically is becoming more and 
more intriguing.
At this point, I have one person offering to administer an FTP site for 
electronic retrieval of images, but this would still require somebody to 
digitize them. There is some movement in this area, but offers would be 
happily recieved.  I'm also vaguely interested in allowing electronic 
submissions, which would probably be ONLY available via FTP. 

Then, of course, there's a problem with copyright, etc. 

 Comments on this idea are WARMLY invited.  More work needs to be done
with the idea, yet.

BTW: Nominations for the theme are open until Jan. 10.  Voting will 
run from then until Jan 20.
-- 
Stephen Samuel          (604)822-9248           photo@cs.ubc.ca
                                        or,  alberta!ubc-cs!photo
Photo swap co-ordinator (with much support from Brian M. Godfrey)
The first prerequisite to enjoyment is playing the game.