[Leica] Just wondering

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Nathan,
Well said. I agree 100%. We have very close offline friends, as a family, mind you, that we met and befriended only because of LUG. There are even a few couples whom we meet and travel with every year. It is a very precious resource for this reason. 

As for the LUG Gallery, it is the primary place where I post my images, though hardly any are taken with Leica equipment, for a multitude of reasons, primarily eyesight. As Brian mentioned once, it is a very effective photo backup system for us as well, which is why I post moderately large images.

For these reasons, I cannot thank Brian enough for the time and patience he has displayed, in running a civilized list, a total rarity nowadays, and the gallery.

Cheers
Jayanand

Sent from my iPad

> On 26-Aug-2019, at 01:23, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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>> On 25 Aug 2019, at 21:32, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>>> 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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