[Leica] Just wondering
Brian Reid
reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Sun Aug 25 12:32:42 PDT 2019
The LUG Gallery software is 14 years old. The software package is called
"Gallery 2". About 9 years ago, Google hired its chief developer away
from the Gallery project and put him to work on Picasa. Neither Gallery
2 nor Gallery 3 has changed much since. I think of the Gallery software
as being a bit like my IIIf--it takes some TLC to use it at all, but
they are still making film for it. The 90/f4 Elmar LTM is still my
favorite lens of all time.
For the time being, we have to consider that software as static. It runs
on an ancient operating system on a virtual machine, because you can't
buy real computers any more that will run that software.
I am retiring in about a month, and I am retiring from my management
roles in a week. I hope that I will be able to devote more time to
smoothing out LUG software. There are several tabs on the "add items"
page, and I might be able to get more of them to work. I've never used
any but the first tab.
On 2019-08-25 12:20, Aram Langhans via LUG wrote:
> Or an easier way to get things onto the gallery would be a benefit to
> me. I know I asked once about FTP to the gallery, but was told it was
> not supported by the version of the gallery in use, and an update
> would be a big process, and I accept that. After all, this is a free
> list and one I enjoy tremendously, so I hope you keep it up. I shun
> social media. Not willing to give up that much of my life and/or
> information to be addicted to facebook and the like.
>
> Aram
>
> On 8/24/2019 4:51 PM, Richard Man wrote:
>> Personally speaking I think if the mailer allows embedded images, I
>> might
>> post more images
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 16:12 Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Brian, I subscribe to two mailing lists, and no social media, and I
>>> use
>>> both cameras and and a smart phone. To me, approaching 90, the
>>> responses from list postings satisfy my needs to join the herd.
>>>
>>> But, if my family members are true examples of today's society, the
>>> younger folk feel that social media groups are the norm, and smart
>>> phone
>>> photos are where it's at.
>>>
>>> For family information and photo exchanges, I usually use text
>>> messages.
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
>>> On 8/24/2019 5:41 PM, Brian Reid wrote:
>>>> Someone asked me why, even though there are 700 subscribers to the
>>>> LUG
>>>> and Leica sells 100,000 cameras per year, that only a dozen or so
>>>> people ever post pictures. I didn't know what to say.
>>>>
>>>> Is the era of email winding to an end? 20 years ago there were 2000
>>>> subscribers and 10 years ago there were 1300.
>>>>
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