Members Evening

[Ian]

are you sure that Ken's not been put of by the heckling?

[Mike]

I agree that there weer too many speakers. It was originally only supposed to be myself and Mark but it looks liek Tony booked two otehrs in as well. he obviously presumed mark and I were only going to talk for 10 minutes! It was a shame as Mark had to cut his talk short and I felt I had to rush mine a bit.

And someone (not mentioning any names) said that it was difficult to fill members Evenings with speakers !!! 

[JohnP]

Shame you weren't there John your image of M57 was 'Image of the Month'.

Oh... doubly disappointed then... Thks anyway - I look forwad to receiving the cheque - or is it a case of beer....

[Ian]

I believe it's case of buy your own beer...

[Mike]

..actually you win a slap in the eye with a wet haddock.

[Tony G]

Who were the hecklers??? and what did they heckle???

Tony G

[Jim]

Ken had prepared a longer talk and kindly agreed to delay this until the next members meet in Sept, so we can look forward to it then.  I thought it was an excellent meeting, all the talks were well presented, succinct and interesting. We really needed more time for discussion. The range of interest of our members is fantastic and it's good of them to take time to share it.

[MarkS]

John,

My presentation is 20Meg of Powerpoint (lots of pictures in there).  I can put it on a CD for you ...

Mark

[Mac]

As quite a few people have now asked for powerpoint copies of some of the talks,

Can all of the talks (where available) be made available in behind the scenes as downloads,

There own page perhaps.

There are a few that i would like to see again.

Although we might have to get permission off of the previous talkers, copyright ect.

Just a thought.

Mac.

[Ian]

this question has come up before. I would not expect external speakers to be too happy about this, but I'd defer to Tony Sizer, seeing as he's the current meetings secretary.

For internal talks, I think that'd be useful. We've got a general area in the gallery, although i don't think that's the best place. Moderators can post files here, or they could be added to the main website.

[Rick]

For talks which make use of illustrations from elsewhere (as both Tony's amd Mike's did), copyright could be an issue.

For internal talks where the slides are the speaker's original work and we have the speaker's permission, copyright shouldn't be too much of a problem. If there is a problem it's likely to be with the file size.

Also, in my experience, a set of slides doesn't always make much sense unless it has the talk to go with it.

[Rick]

Can all of the talks (where available) be made available in behind the scenes as downloads

The technology exists, but I don't think I'd be in favour of this. The slides (whatever format) are usually prepared to help illustrate a talk, and without the talk they're just a string of pictures. Also, talks are by their nature ephemeral. If you ask a speaker to give the same talk a few months later the content will probably have changed to some degree.

There are pages on our main website for reports on talks (and special events). Usually I end up writing them. I try to write enough to remind folks who were there what the talk was about, and if speakers give web links I try to remember to include those too, but I'm sure I miss plenty of stuff, especially if I stop by the pub aferwards. I would welcome additional reports on talks from other authors for the website (and TOAST).

...and on a related note, there's plenty of room for sections on the website about (say) astrophotography and observing techniques...