Hi,
C'mon guys and gals. There are only 24 of us shown on TOPE1. I don't know
how many are subscribed to the list but I think the number is over 200.
Can't we do better than ten percent participation with an open shooting
date? I'd really like to know the faces behind the words.
Chuck, thanks for stating what was grinding away at me too ;)
Last year when the theme of self portraits was suggested for ADITL 3, many
people echoed the suggestion with great enthusiasm. Nonetheless, it seems
that the majority of the submissions (so far) came from the people who were
not too unthusiastic about the self portrait theme, and also from people
whose names are not too often seen on the list (which I think is a truly
great development!). I even let the self portrait theme take precedence over
the bokeh one, even though the latter got more votes when we voted for the
themes...
So... How can to improve the participation rate?
Well, for starters, the submission deadline has been relieved, so there are
no more time constraints. Then, maybe we can make the submission process
somewhat more insightful. Some people have asked me what TOPE is exactly,
and/or how to participate in it. For these purposes, there's a special
"Rules" subpage on the TOPE page. Here are the URLs:
http://www.web-wizards.com/olympus/tope (main TOPE page)
http://www.web-wizards.com/olympus/tope/rules.html (page with details for
submissions, also reachable from the main page).
Finally, please let me remind the people on the list that there are scanner
volunteers to help out the people who don't have (access to) a scanner
themselves. Gregg, could you maybe re-post the list of volunteers again?
Good, it seems there are still quite a few people who want to send in a
submission, but who simply haven't gotten around to getting anything decent
(scanned) yet. So, hopefully the number of submissions will still increase
quite a bit over the next few weeks or so. A participation rate of 100 0s
of course never going to happen, but some 25% (i.e. some 50 submissions)
should be possible.
Finally, Giles: I still haven't gotten around to going to my parents' house
to scan some more pics of myself, but be patient, one day I'll get some of
'em up on a subpage....;)
Cheers!
Olafo
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