Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ha ha, that will give them a shock for the midnight in Brisbane cutoff ;-) john ________________________________________ I only just had a conversation on this with Brian this hour in fact. With Brian's agreement now, I am going to facilitate the 2014 edition. Everyone rest assured that it should be a whole lot like Jim's productions. His format and approach was very well accepted, I think. You'll all be on Southern Hemisphere timings though;-) I will make a more detailed first announcement soon. Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 7 January 2014 08:37, Duane Birkey <dbirkey at hcjb.org> wrote: > I had volunteered to do it or to help with it as well... Hence the > discussion on the future direction of the yearbook (-1) that I would have > not otherwise started... (-2) which was in no way meant as a criticism of > Jim's effort (+1) or past editorial decisions about the book (+2) nor > meaning to imply in any way that Brian (+1) nor Geoff (+1) are incapable of > doing the project without my input.. Not sure if that is a +1 or -1 > statement... > > My offer to coordinate it (now or in the future) or help with it still > stands, (I'm proficient in InDesign) but I am not offended if I'm not asked > to... The book, after all, belongs to the LUG.... > > IMHO > > Duane > > > **************************************** > > On Jan 6, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Adam Bridge wrote: > > > I'm going to speak for using a "generic" image as the cover image and > not one of the inside images. Something Leica-related in the gear line > would be just fine. > > > > Doesn't Blurb offer PDF versions as a downloadable option? I'm fairly > sure they do - and versions that work on the iPad and Android devices as > well. Not the same as the book, however, but more affordable and easier to > share. > > I've heard both Brian and Geoff > volunteer to follow in Jim's footsteps > and continue the LUG Yearbook tradition. > > Whichever and whomever takes on > this time consuming labor-of-love > earns the right to edit all aspects of the project > as they see fit... just as Jim did before them. > > (I do like the idea of an affordable ebook possibility > simply because I've not been able to afford books in the past) > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug> > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >