[Coco] Kudos to Roger!

[John Donaldson]

Roger,
   The vedio was great. Glad I could help out when I did. As for next 
year, I think
leaving the vedio as it is would do. I would love to see sound as then 
one could follow
the seminars, such as the one David Kreil did right in front of the 
camera. LOL.Not sure
how much more it would take to add sound, but I think that is all that 
would be needed
and maby a terminal there at the webcam for Fest-goers to type msg on.
    Next year Dave Kelly needs to also put a sign at the webcam, so 
people would know
to stop and wave at the camera. LOL
    Never did see Boisy or Allen stop by and wave...

John Donaldson



Roger Taylor wrote:

> At 06:46 PM 4/17/2005, you wrote:
>
>> I, as a "virtual attendee" to the CoCoFest, would like to extend 
>> kudos to
>> Roger Taylor for all his efforts over the past year improving the 
>> CoCochat
>> page. It has turned out to be an extremely useful resource and 
>> communication
>> tool for the current Global CoCo community as was found with it's 
>> successful
>> application as the Live chat and web cam access to the fest.
>>
>> Also kudos must go to Dave Kelly for supplying the Linux PC and web 
>> cam at
>> the fest end.
>>
>> You 2 alone helped extend the CoCo experience to other unable to 
>> attend the
>> fest (I'm in Australia).
>>
>> Well done!
>> Nick
>
>
>
> Thank you, Nick!
>
> Considering the circumstances, I am surprised we got this working on 
> time.  It was really a group effort because I was on the interstate 
> from 6:45am to 10am and all I had was my cel phone.  I gave some 
> incorrect FTP login info to Dave Kelly on Thursday and I finally got 
> to speak with him on Saturday morning to correct this, after which the 
> video came in fine.  Thanks for your time and efforts, Dave.  We 
> turned what seemed like a spontaneous idea into something real in a 
> Very short time and it was nice to see a past dream become reality.
>
> Dave is the real person behind the video feed.  I added a 
> right-aligned picture to the chat room template called "image.jpg" 
> sized at 320x240.  The effect was that the picture floated in the 
> message area just like a static web page layout.  The job of Dave was 
> to FTP the image in as often as he liked, overwriting the old image.  
> Since the CoCo Cafe has an auto refresh, plus it refreshes when you 
> send a message or a blank message, and since the page uses a fade-in 
> effect, the new video images appeared in a nice manner as people 
> talked.  Simple enough and 100% HTML to the web browser you guys 
> used.  Ofcourse, the CoCo Cafe uses a script written in pure Pentium 
> assembly by yours truly so after a year+ of testing and success, I 
> felt like it was perfect for merging with the fest cam -- so much that 
> I chose to go ahead with my plans to go out of town instead of sitting 
> nervously at my PC during the entire fest.  When I got back in town, 
> Borden called me in to work, so I was NOT able to attend the virtual 
> fest in the chatroom at any time to confirm how smooth it worked.  
> Maybe others can post more feedback.
>
> We could take this to another level if people would post their new 
> ideas of what should be for next year or a next fest of any kind, 
> keeping in mind that an idea of streaming video/audio requires a lot 
> more than what CoCo3.com is setup for.  Someone said audio would have 
> been nice, and I agree.  However, the video alone and the live 
> messages made for a nice virtual fest for those who could not go or 
> have never been.
>
> Cheers,
>
>