Newsletter

[shaun]

Fantastic job this latest newsletter, thanks to everyone involved as it made todays washing machine rebuild a bit less stressful.

Any chance of going full multimedia on the next one, slideshows, videos etc?

[chris.richard]

Absorbing reading - and that's just the paper version! Can't wait to see the pictures in colour.

[strat6v]

The pic of Bernards strat following either Chris and Janes or Nico's through the snow and trees is ace. can't put my finger on it, just the dark outlines of the trees, the white snow then BAM! a flash of blue and green. I wonder how many more good ones the Monte crew have? :)

[Sando]

I wonder how many more good ones the Monte crew have? :)

....about 800 to be precise !
A DVD with just the photo's on was planned.... but then all the Video shots from some Anglo-French bloke hanging out of the back af an Astra driven by a mad Scot was added to the mix and became too much for the Hasslblad brothers PC to handle :D

Keep the faith
Bobster

PS Everyone Send Chris some bl**dy text for the next newsletter!
This mega bumper issue was all filled by about 4 people...

[CorseChris]

I've had some material in from a couple of the old faithful contributors and one new one so far...so please, anything welcome.

Shaun, the full mutlimedia interactive version will have to wait until someone develops the sort of paper they had in the film Minority Report :)

But seriously, it's enough of an effort to get enough words to make an issue, let alone video etc. If we move to CD distribution as a standard, then maybe we can look at more images being available, as in this case I had more sent than I used. An html newsletter is always a possiblilty I suppose but that then raises other problems like getting a decent hard copy off it should you want one. I've tried converting newsletters to html before but the automaitc tools tend not to work that well.

[SUSIT]

Whats html?

[CorseChris]

Whats html?

You're looking at it :) HyperText Markup Language for the sad and detail-obsessed (like me).

Idea being the newsletter would behave like a web site. Kind of asssumes you have a computer with a web browser though.

Could offer some extra whizz-bang style stuff....but I am emphatically NOT a fan of style over content. Or in plain language, you can't polish a turd - if the content isn't there, making it look spiffy won't help a jot.

[catswhiskers]

I've had some material in from a couple of the old faithful contributors and one new one so far...so please, anything

Hi Chris,
I've just finished part two of my build story so I'll get that off to you on CD. Hope I didnt bore everyone rigid with part 1. :)
When do you anticipate publishing the next newsletter? or is it too early to say yet. :rolleyes:

Mick

[CorseChris]

Mick,

Excellent - thank you.

I said I'd start putting the next issue together once this one was printed...but I haven't yet......but I'll make a start soon and would aim to have it done and on it's way by probably mid February assuming sufficient material and approval from the committee.

[chris.richard]

Shaun, the full mutlimedia interactive version will have to wait until someone develops the sort of paper they had in the film Minority Report :)

Or the Daily Prophet...

the full mutlimedia - could turn into a dog's dinner! :D

[David May]

Great effort - thanks to all involved. I personally have very little use for paper in any form and found the CD much nicer (handy to transport, full colour etc) but appreciate that not all of us have a PC to hand. It should not be hard to find a host server for members to download from on request.