[Coco] Dave Kelly, where are you

[Roger Taylor]

Dave, I've been writing you privately with no replies.  I set up an 
FTP account for you to do some cam testing.

There's been a webcam feed from many fest events in the past so I'm 
willing to host any uploads/streams if noone else does.  FTP is the 
most compatible since the web site visitor sees the images on the 
page like any other image, and automatic updating tricks usually 
works with most web browsers.

However, I just looked into a one-time event streaming video plan 
from a good streaming company.  I can't afford to pay for the event 
plan but I can definately accept donations to payment at coco3.com then 
set up the service within the next week and do some testing if Dave 
is ok with doing an upstream at somewhere around 250 kbit.  That 
yields 53 hours for the plan which is well beyond a weekend event.

If it's possible to simulataneously do 15-second snapshot uploads 
using FTP, then I can work with that as well.  Ofcourse, this depends 
on the webcam software whether it can stream plus do FTP uploading at 
the same time.  I think Active Webcam has many features and I might 
have a paid version on my system somewhere if Dave wants to try it.

Btw, I've been busy uploading the new CMS version of CoCo3.com which 
is coming soon.  Over 5,000 component files make up the system which 
supports Articles, Encyclopdia, Downloads, Reviews, News, Forums, 
Blog, FAQ, Feedback, Journal, Search, Stories, Surveys, and much 
more.  Visitors will be able to submit content to the site in many 
forms which will make it even more of a community site than the current domain.

Also, a preservation effort will be made to bring back to life some 
content from dead-and-gone CoCo sites.  I've managed to recover some 
content from sites such as Jim Davis' site, the old famous CoCo 
Homepage, the Unravalled Series site, and a few others.  I'm not sure 
where these authors and sites went, but I've tried to contact Jim 
Davis for several years now with no luck.  Some have moved on and 
didn't give us a "see ya later" message, but maybe one day they will 
Google up the words "color computer" and come across their preserved 
pages in the CoCo SuperSite.  www.coco3.com


-- 
Roger Taylor