Hi Alex, These are all fantastic points! I would really like to see these things brought up at the next meeting so we can talk this out as a group and have people sign up to tackle these projects.
I understand talking things out as a group is what discuss is for, but if we bring it up at a meeting I feel that whoever volunteers to get these things done will be held more accountable. As for removing bulbs and leaving them empty.. that doesn't strike me as safe considering there will still be an electrical current running into the fixture still. I welcome somebody to provide proof that this is wrong. Is there anyway we could get a button / latch operated cover that we can flip up to cover the lights when we need them temporarily blocked out? I don't know about the HDMI cable, but I would suggest drawing up a plan with costs to present to everyone. This will make it a much more feasible option if we as a group know exactly what needs to be done and can follow a plan. Same thing with moving the projector. Make a plan and I am sure we can find someone to enact it. The seating thing I think we should discuss more as a group to see what options are available. --BP On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:27 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > Had some ideas occur to me the last couple of times I've been in the > classroom. Figured they'd be worth sharing... > > > - Might be a good idea to pull the bulbs from the bank of lights in front > of the projector screen. It has the undesirable sideffect of washing out > the image, and if we need lights on throughout the rest of the room for > follow-along, it creates a bit of a catch 22. > > - Given the pace of laptop tech, we should consider hard wiring an HDMI > connector to the projector. Most multi converters for displayport to DVI > don't necessarily include analogue pin-outs on the DVI connections (this > means no DVI to D-Sub converters will work). I've resorted to using the > spool of HDMI cable we have on-hand but that means it's dangling and I > assume might not always be available. > > - Is it possible to pull the projector back a bit to increase the size of > the area it projects and maybe even lower it slightly? > > I realize, this is all kind of wishlisty, but I think these three changes > would go a long way for the classroom. > > There's also one question/puzzle I'd like to pose with regard to seating. > We managed to attract quite a few people at the last PHPUG meeting and I'm > wondering if anyone has ideas as to how we can better accomodate groups up > to around 30 (!!!) people. > Understanding that we have a limited budget, maybe note somewhere that if > we could ever get longer tables (fewer table legs), we could fit more > people in each row! > > Anyway, file this under "whenever", even without any of it happening the > space has worked out great and the PHPUG is grateful for having access to > the space. :) > > > > - Alex > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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