Greetings and Salutations to the OSG community,
The SIGGRAPH 2012 OSG BOF was a resounding success. Why Because 1) The presenters were excellent [thanks Luis, Alejandro, Eric, Art and Robert] They showed up [even for the pre BOF planning meeting on Monday], put up with my jokes, were professional and most likely could all sing [see below]...:) 2) The presentations were excellent [thanks Luis, Alejandro, Eric, Art and Robert] The quality of the research / applications presented was excellent. Luis had a presentation in other BOF's. VICOMTECH [Luis / Tassilo and colleagues] is a Spanish research consortium and will host next year's Web3D symposium. Art, I believe had a paper accepted at SIGGRAPH which is very prestigious. Some of Luis's colleagues had some posters at SIGGRAPH. Eric had some great comments on OSG and video walls. Alejandro had an excellent presentation on plate tectonics research at the National University of Mexico. Luis's presentation also complemented a presentation by ESRI in the CG for Simulation BOF. The crowd seemed enthused with Robert's DICOM and shadow and scripting future for OSG. An extremely impressive showing by the group of presenters. I really hit the jackpot on presenters this year. [and previous years of course]. 3) The room was the same room that the SIGGRAPH educator's program used on Monday Aug 6. Thus it had an industrial grade screen, projector and professional sound system. It also had water bottles with the Los Angeles Convention Center logo on the bottles for all the presenters. I brought along a projector and Karaoke machine [powered microphone] and was planning on singing while I presented Robert's slides. However, since the A/V setup for the educator's was very loud and professional, I just spoke Robert's slides using the supplied sound system. Hopefully, in a not quite monotonic voice but with true feeling. The goddess of OSG sound must have been protecting the BOF room. 4) There was probably 50 people in the room. Maybe more. 5) There were a few "wish list" features fantastically enunciated by the crowd. I'll dig it up and send to Robert. 6) The community. No matter where the BOF is held, the room always has a good crowd. Pay attention to Art's presentation on the need for more forum moderators and volunteers. 7) I got a walking teapot from Pixar after the BOF. There was no BOF scheduled after the OSG BOF. So, the presenters and true believers had a bit of extra post BOF time to pontificate, mull, conduct deep thoughts,.. I thought deep thoughts about singing but realized that I left the Karaoke CD's at home. Bummer. I'll send the presentations to Robert soon. All the presenters really wanted their presentations posted and read by the community. So, have fun. I have a few pictures that I will send to Robert to be posted. Note: In a few weeks I may post some questions related to next year's BOF for the community to consider [time, day,...] John F. Richardson
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