Call for Nominations: Dedication of 2011.0

[Yuval Levy]

Hi all,

I would like to continue what started with 2010.4 and dedicate the next
version of Hugin. Hugin 2010.4 was dedicated to Milko Amorth, a VR pioneer
that we lost last year. The dedication does not have to be to a deceased
person; nor to a person at all. It also does not have to be strictly related
with panoramas or Free Software. Hugin could be dedicated to anybody or
anything important enough for the community to care about.

Nominations are herewith open and will stay open until the first beta release.

Please add nominations to this thread with the following information:
1. Whom or what would you like to dedicate Hugin to
2. Why you would like to see Hugin dedicated to them
3. A dedication text
4. Optional: image(s) as attachment

You can see the dedication to Milko Amorth in the "About" menu of 2010.4.0 for
an idea of how it may look like, how much text space there is, how much image
space there is. Be creative with your proposals.

Do not comment, discuss or vote on nominations here. A voting facility will
be set up and announced in due time.

Looking forward for your nominations.
Yuv

[harry van der Wolf]

Personally I don't like the concept of dedicating a piece of software
or an OS project to anyone or anything at all.

I thought the Milko Amorth dedication was a one time action, because
he obviously meant a lot to a lot of community members, although I had
never heard of him before (but that might be my ignorance).

Therefore I would like to raise the question if we as OS community
would like to dedicate Hugin, both as software and as project, to
someone or something.
My vote is against it.
However, I like this to be a democratic decision by the community and
if the community is in favor for a dedication in hugin, I will easily
follow.
Currently it has been decided already for 2010.4, which is fine with
me, but do we want to continue with this?

So please let us know if you are against dedication in hugin or in
favor. And if you are in favor of it please mention your person/
subject/topic for dedication.

Harry

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[kfj]

On 2 Mrz., 18:34, harry van der Wolf <hvdw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Personally I don't like the concept of dedicating a piece of software
> or an OS project to anyone or anything at all.
>

> Therefore I would like to raise the question if we as OS community
> would like to dedicate Hugin, both as software and as project, to
> someone or something.
>
> My vote is against it.

I'm also against dedications.

Kay

[Bruno Postle]

On Wed 02-Mar-2011 at 09:34 -0800, Harry van der Wolf wrote:
>
> Therefore I would like to raise the question if we as OS community
> would like to dedicate Hugin, both as software and as project, to
> someone or something.

I wouldn't have done it myself, but it isn't intrusive so I don't
see it as a negative thing.

The whole 'About window' is unnecessary and I have no use for it,
but it is still very important that contributors are publically
acknowledged, and having an opportunity for users to showcase a
panorama in the splash screen is a good thing too.

--
Bruno

[Harry van der Wolf]

2011/3/2 Bruno Postle <br...@postle.net>

Another option might be to leave the dedication "framework" functional as it is with an option to switch it on or off per release. We can then decide upon a new Hugin version if we want to dedicate Hugin to someone or something if we all feel that something or someone needs to be dedicated. Something might happen that makes us all feel that we "now!" want to dedicate Hugin to someone or something.
It could (easily?) be a cmake variable (1 or 0) that decides whether the dedication window is built or not (I'll find my way for XCode on OSX).

Harry

[Bart van Andel]

On Wednesday, March 2, 2011 6:50:50 PM UTC+1, kfj wrote:

On 2 Mrz., 18:34, harry van der Wolf <hvd...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Personally I don't like the concept of dedicating a piece of software
> or an OS project to anyone or anything at all.

Me too, I thought it was a one-time occasion as well.

> Therefore I would like to raise the question if we as OS community
> would like to dedicate Hugin, both as software and as project, to
> someone or something.
>
> My vote is against it.

I'm also against dedications.

I vote against as well.

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Bart 

[Jeffrey Martin]

against.

[Seb Perez-D]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 18:34, harry van der Wolf <hvd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So please let us know if you are against dedication in hugin or in
> favor. And if you are in favor of it please mention your person/
> subject/topic for dedication.

I vote against having a recurrent dedication in Hugin.

Cheers,

Seb

[Yuval Levy]

On March 2, 2011 12:34:35 pm harry van der Wolf wrote:
> I would like to raise the question if we as OS community
> would like to dedicate Hugin

The decision has obviously fallen and future releases of Hugin will not be
dedicated.

What I find questionable is the timing of this objection. The plan was public
for more than two months. Feedback was solicited again a month ago [0].

Why have you waited until so late in the release process with this objection?

Yuv

[0] http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/msg/dea12375101429c5

[dmg]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Bruno Postle <br...@postle.net> wrote:
>
> The whole 'About window' is unnecessary and I have no use for it, but it is

> still very important that contributors are publically acknowledged,'

I agree, this is very important to keep.

and
> having an opportunity for users to showcase a panorama in the splash screen
> is a good thing too.
>

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--dmg

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