[Radiance-general] Radiance Workshop Live

[Greg Ward]

Yes, thanks to all who attended, all who presented, and especially all who helped organize this year's workshop.  As well as Andy, Dane Lay and Daniel Fuller were hard at work behind the scenes, and we must thank Christian Kohler again for figuring out how to do the webcast and taking care of many of the details (in real time no less).

Thanks also to the workshop sponsors, and to Eleanor Lee and Stephen Selkowitz for their support and extensive participation, and to Francis Rubinstein who got the whole thing started with Radiance way back when, taking part this year as well.

I do hope people's travel home is not delayed too badly, and that Irene has mercy on our friends on the East Coast.

We posted the Gigapan taken of the workshop participants at:

	http://gigapan.org/gigapans/85282/

Assuming the link works, you can put some names to faces -- at least for the people who remembered their name tags.

How valuable would it be to attempt to record people's presentations next year -- audio + advance sequence?  I think both PowerPoint and Keynote support this feature, though I haven't really played around with it.  Maybe not as exciting as a webcast, but a little more archival.

Best,
-Greg

> From: Rob Guglielmetti <rob.guglielmetti at gmail.com>
> Date: August 27, 2011 9:23:21 AM PDT
> 
> I have to say, a lot of the heady BSDF stuff that was introduced last year was lost on me when I simply reviewed the slides from the '10 Workshop. So I can imagine for the '11 "remote attendees", having the webcast experience along with the slides is much closer to "being there". THanks to Andy and LBNL for hosting a great Workshop, and for all the tech support involved in getting the webcast going. 
> 
> I am so glad I was able to attend this year and I enjoyed seeing old and new faces; I always wish there was more time. Sorry I had to exit stage right before the whole show was over but I barely made my plane as it was! 
> 
> I hope Chris R. and Joe D. and anyone else trying to head toward that beast Irene makes out as well as they can. 
> 
> Until next time, happy rendering!
> 
> - Rob G.