[MCN-L] Electronic systems for counting visitors?

2013-01-17 Thread James Maza
Hi Nina et al - Don't have any experience with this company, but this sounds like what you are looking for http://www.sensourceinc.com/ hope this helps.. Jim Jim Maza Chief Technology Officer, The Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201 (P) 410.547.9000 ext

[MCN-L] Electronic systems for counting visitors?

2013-01-17 Thread Elizabeth Neely
Nina, A few years back we installed Trafsys Thermal Sensorsthat track heads (apparently human heads are a different temperature than the rest of our bodies). These cameras take into account direction of travel (how many people are coming and going from a portal.) I'm not l

[MCN-L] NAS HDD

2013-01-17 Thread Jeff L. La Clair
How much data are you backing up. And what are your time constraints, how much do you want to invest, and do you desire de-duplication to conserve disk growth. Please excuse any misspelling, this message was sent from my Windows Phone. From: Matthew Schuld Sent:

[MCN-L] NAS HDD

2013-01-17 Thread Matthew Schuld
Hello, Forgive me if this topic has been covered. I am looking for assistance with on-site back-up options (offsite back up is already settled). We are searching for the best way to back-up all crucial data in house, preferably with the piece of hardware stored in our collections space (do

[MCN-L] Electronic systems for counting visitors?

2013-01-17 Thread Nina Simon
Hi Jaki, We're explicitly NOT interested in requiring sign-in or tickets - these are free-flowing events with thousands of people walking in and out of a small space. We want to make the events as accessible and open as possible - we just want to know how many people attend. Thanks, Nina On J

[MCN-L] Electronic systems for counting visitors?

2013-01-17 Thread Nina Simon
Dear friends in museum geekitude, We're looking for a solution for our small museum to count people. Specifically, we have an increasing number of free days, and we'd really prefer for our limited staff and volunteers to spend their time interacting with visitors instead of focusing on getting

[MCN-L] converter program CD-Rom to Web Based

2013-01-17 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
We Process CD-ROM into ISO images and mount them as an information store on our vmware ESX platform. It can then be available at any fashion you wish to use the data. Doron Ben-Avraham Director of Technology NEW MUSEUM TEL : 212.219.1222 x 233 FAX: 212.432.6822 newmuseum.org I am not aware of

[MCN-L] converter program CD-Rom to Web Based

2013-01-17 Thread Ben Fino-Radin
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Adrienne Romano < aromano at michenerartmuseum.org> wrote: > > Does anyone know of a converter program that takes a CD-ROM application > and converts it to a web-friendly format? Generally speaking, CD-ROMs are too complex and heterogenous in format for any sort

[MCN-L] The 2013 PK Policy Symposium

2013-01-17 Thread Amalyah Keshet [akes...@imj.org.il]
For those in the Wash. DC area: Join Public Knowledge for conversations on the future of internet, communications, and copyright policy. >From "fixing" TV to copyright reform, we'll discuss obstacles and solutions to >what are sure to be this year's most inte

[MCN-L] Managing Museum Sites on WordPress

2013-01-17 Thread Jaki Levy
Hi Everyone - I'm looking to talk to museums running WordPress sites. I've seen lots of WordPress sites getting hacked because they're not getting updated, on unmanaged servers, or other common IT mistakes. I've also seen folks lose data because there was no redundant backup service in place.