[Leica] Just wondering

[Nathan Wajsman]

Brian, I think the LUG Gallery works just fine. And as someone who has been on this list for 20 years or so, I can only express my gratitude to you. Thanks to you, I have met many people whom I would otherwise not have met, and many of them have become my friends in the offline life. Even close friends in some cases.
All this thanks to you.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

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> On 25 Aug 2019, at 21:32, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
> 
> 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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