We've all entered 2009 and I'm sure some of us already are thinking about preparations for WWKW2009. WWKW2008 was a great success (see here) and I expect this year's edition will prolong this success.
It's time to set a date. I was thinking of a full week, starting on
Friday April 24th until Tuesday May 5th
(ultimate modification made 01/29)
As we started this project in 2008 with a weekend and ended it one week later in order to give everybody a chance to participate, why not go for the same period in 2009...
It's nearly 1 AM here in Western Europe. Time to go horizontal. So all out there on the other side of the pond, you can be the first to get your calendars and mark this week off.
Good choice Ramon - The last weekend of Berck coincides with the first weekend of WWKW. SHould give lots of opportunity for us European KAPpers. I agree with John about the bank holiday weekend too.
(Weavingmajor, are you planning on designing a shirt this year? I'd love to get mine early this time so I can wear it. Maybe not ALL week... gotta do laundry.)
Not to push too hard, but our Mexican friends celebrate Cinco de Mayo (May 5). It's an important day in North America. Lots of colorful potential for KAPing, too.
Thanks Broox, I went through most of it already but I'm not sure I understand exactly what happen. I was hoping somebody might be able to summarize it in one or two lines.
Everyone gets out wherever they are, as much as they can, during WWKW, and does KAP or something related to KAP (public speaking, gallery showing of KAP photos, etc.) Pictures are posted to the WWKW Flickr group for folks to share. If we're doing a book again this year, unmodified photos are submitted to the person coordinating the book along with captions and a block of text describing yourself, your experience during WWKW, etc.
Peter, If my post prompted your offer then thats great! I'm sure I speak for all in appreciation for a job well done in 2008 and in capable hands for 2009!
Sure James, Peter (aka Toadstone) made a very (big and) nice work on the first WWkapBook 2008. Many thanks to him. The 2009 edition sounds great again.
Agree!!! Long, long live to Lord Toadstone.... :-) :-) :-) I have a suggestion/idea.... what if this year we do the writing for the book in English (that is our community language) and in each one local language?
I volunteer for heping with the Spanish stuff.... Comments are welcome as usual... Regards Ramiro
Long live Lord Toadstone, and long live Ramon - thanks for pushing it forward again this year!
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I'd be delighted to make a T-shirt. I'm thinking of doing something along the lines of Simon's famous "answers" shirt from KAPiCA '02 (maybe separate versions for AutoKAP as vs. R/C, etc.?)
If anyone else wants to leap in before I finish and do it up, or has a better T-shirt idea, feel free - I'm up to my eyeballs but will try to get something available to all before the end of January. Suggestions welcome for this shirt or something newer and better - mail me at flyingcraft at gmail dot com.
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Ramiro - I'm not understanding - are you saying produce many editions of the book, first create one in English and then translate it into Spanish, Dutch, German etc? That would certainly be possible (and wouldn't cost any more.)
If so, my recommendation would be for Peter (Toadstone) to finish the English version with all picture color-corrections etc, and then send the final Blurb book file to whoever was interested in producing a separate version in another language. It would be each translator's job to download and learn to use the Blurb software (it's pretty easy to use), make the translated text fit, and juggle things or cut words as necessary where it does not fit, and then upload their version to Blurb and post a note on the relevant discussion saying that the Spanish version (etc) is available.
Note that the translator/uploader will have to buy a copy of the book themselves to make the book publicly available.
Love the idea of WWKW. Love the clever trick of clicking on the photo to take you to the flickr page. How do you do it? or is this info somewhere else? Love the T-shirt but mine would have the answer;- "It takes them automatically" Sue
In Flickr: 1. Log in to Flickr and display your photo. 2. Click All Sizes. (It's above the photo.) 3. Select the Thumbnail, Small or Medium link. 4. Below the display of the resized photo, in the "Copy and paste this HTML into your webpage" box, select and copy the entire contents.
On this forum: 1. Log in (of course). 2. Paste the HTML contents that you had copied from Flickr into the Comments box. 3. Verify that Html has been selected. 4. Click the "Add your comments" button.
Kelly, Sorry for my delay in replying... (I was on vacations)... I'm not thinking of doing an entire spanish version of the book, but having in the same book the english version and a local language version of the paragrah (like I did last year) but with all the languages. For example mine would be in English and spanish, Ramon would be in English and dutch, and so on...
ah! so you're suggesting to the community to send in their captions/narratives in both English and their native language, not suggesting some massive translation. That makes sense to me, and I think it would be neat!
Hi Ramon, I will enjoy KAPing sometime during the week. I'm not sure if you know, but May 5th is Cinco de Mayo, a Mexican holiday that is informally observed in the States as yet another excuse to party! Coupled with the weather warming in the northern hemisphere, finds more people and potential subjects on this day outside or on the beaches the 1st week of May. I think it would be a great idea to extend just 1 extra day to include Cinco de Mayo!
@Celaya Last year, all submissions were published. Basically anyone who wanted to contribute sent either 3 or 4 photos. These were then included in a template. It was left to the editor to decide which image became the feature image filling one whole page. This helped in hopefully balancing the images as there was no theme or subject. Contributors were also given the option of supplying text/narrative to go with the images. Not all did so.
Subject to general consensus I will be putting a small mini site up along the lines of last year. I have noted all the comments so far and like most I like Ramiro's idea too.
Just a thought, group, wouldn't it be a good idea to inform all other KAP folks/forums about the 2nd edition? Ramiro, Peter, Pierre, Mike, is it possible you post the same groups like you did last year?
Ramon, I already posted the WWKW'09 announce in the Batoco forum (local Kite club) www.batoco.org and the announce of the T-shirt. There is a lot of enthusiasm is year and I expect a numerous participation. Regards Ramiro
