Thanks for stepping up, and thanks for all your efforts on behalf of the review. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 7:51 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Team. > As Igor mentioned, I will be taking over the PUG maintainer duties until > Brian's return (hopefully VERY soon). > I'm not doing anything fancy here, I'm just taking the submitted files and > processing them as a Lightroom gallery and uploading the result to the > server.. > > The January 2013 gallery is now live (thanks Igor), and we have a couple of > submissions already for the February gallery, and one is even in for the > March gallery. > > As always, a big thanks to Frontier Vision Technologies for their kindness > and ongoing sponsorship of the PUG, and a huge thanks to Igor wor walking me > through the process again. I can't believe it's been 12 years since I handed > the PUG off to Adelheid. > When I was doing the gallery, everything was coded by hand, with the average > gallery taking something like 8 hours to put together. We had a team of half > a dozen people doing the page coding, but hand coding upwards of a hundred > images for the index page was very time consuming. > Two things I've noticed 12 years later, the PUG doesn't get nearly the > support form the PDML that it used to get. This gallery is 24 images, and > it's gotten WAY easier to build the gallery. > Save the image files to a directory, tell Lightroom to make a gallery, click > start, and go surf the porn sites until it's done. > (OK, I don't really surf porn sites). > After it's done, take a few moments per page for photographer's comments, > upload the entire thing to Komkon, tell the server that the new gallery is > there (this is what I call a leap of faith), and viola!, a new gallery for > your viewing pleasure. > > Anyway, it gives me great pleasure to present the January Pentax Users > Gallery, and I sincerely hope that I won't have to do another one. > > Head on over to http://pug.komkon.org/ and pat yourselves on the back for > another fantastic gallery. The PUG wouldn't exist without the support of the > people who submit to it, and I am proud to be associated with this gallery > again, no matter how short the time is. > > All the best > > William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
