I’ve been playing around with fractal generation over the past few weeks . Some of the results have made it into the redesign of Ordo Ab Chao. Feedback is appreciated but I’m unlikely to change much over the next few weeks. Also, many thanks to those surfers with time on their hands who mailed me their opinions on my new look. The dreads are also here to stay 😉
Thought it was about time I put a new photo of myself on the site. I’ve gone all rasta in the past few weeks so here’s me looking moody and showing off my new dreads in tasteful b et w. My tongue is firmly kept in cheek BTW.
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Hi Alan, =
Here’s an overview of that =
job that
we just agreed you’d do for 140 euro a page. =
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Sincerest regards, =
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…shane
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Overview
Tours,
conferences, and seminars are a big part of International Living and The
sovereign society. On average, we run one event every month. The number =
of
attendees varies depending on event. We use these promos to promote our =
events
to our 300,000(ish) email subscribers and website visitors. Once =
the Tour
is over, the promo is rarely if ever used =
again.
Procedure=
– The promos arrive in ms word format and are =
usually
4-8 A4 pages long.
– We will supply the necessary =
images
– The designer’s task is to produce the promo =
in
standards compliant HTML incorporating headings, sidebars, images,
starbursts etc.
– We will provide an FTP space to store the =
finished
promos
– Every promo has a link to an order =
form.
– Each promo is mirrored several times to =
enable
tracking
Tracking
Our marketing department uses different order forms =
to track
where an order came from. So, for each source, a copy of the promo must =
be
created. For example, if the promo is to appear in our broadcast to =
readers of
our Paris
newsletter, then we would have a seperate url and the link to the order =
form
would be different.
Changes/Edits
We will make every effort to ensure that the designer
receives fully proofed and edited copy, however there will be situations =
that
call for changes to be made after the mirror pages have been created. =
Basic
typos will be made in-house wherever =
possible.
Examples
Here are some examples of recent =
promos
http://www.agoraimage=
s.com/promos/europee/
http://www.agoraimages=
.com/promos/france/
http://www.agoraimage=
s.com/promos/sdpromo/
Hi John,
OK I’ve read the brief that you gave me a few times & thought about it in
the context of writing a propsal for InterReg. Here are my initial thoughts
on the subect. I’m trying to outline the information that Ill require in a
structured way… taking into account how this information would be
presented in a proposal:
Social:
– I’d appreciate accurate figures on the number of Amateur Radio users and
their equipment specifications. Some analysis of the suitability of their
equipment for use in the AREN would be nice. If modification is required to
make their equipment suitable then I’d like you to outline this modification
process, the cost & any companies that could provide partial or complete
solutions.
– Some assessment of the complexity of system use, the amount of training
that would be required.
Legal:
Any legislation in Ireland or Europe that would require the use of an AREN.
What I suspect is that there’s some european communications directive just
sitting out there that will require greater preparation on the part of AREN.
This is particularly appropriate considering that most emergency services
are amateur. Therefore I suspect that there’s an legislative onus to have a
functioning AREN with defined coverage & operational parameters that can be
used by emergency services in a range of defined scenarios. Gee, I’m having
fun here john!
Economic:
– I’m sure that there are cost benefits in utilising an amateur maintained
network, especially if the readiness of the network and the availability and
maintenance of the equipment is specified by legislation covering the
assignemtn of operators to radio usage. I’m not talking about increasing the
license fees, just getting people to make a specified AREN commitment at the
time of license application. We can talk about this further as I’m sure that
you have some views on this matter.
– I need some precise figures on equipment costs, discounts, training (US,
europe, RAYNET estimates etc.)
– I need some idea of the management costs that I can charge. If they’re
high enough then I can find a very impressive administrator to figurehead
this particular project. I’m not sure that I’d act as the overall
administrator. I view myself more in the consultant role… (expensive
consultant of course)
Political:
– Has TSSG submitted any InterReg propsals in the past. What success have
they attained & why? Do we have any contacts within this programme so we
could “fly a kite” for this particular project?
– I’d like some nice juicy examples of devastation caused when such a system
wasn’t in place. Examples where loss of communications infrastructure
contributed to serious injury or death would be useful. Hhhmm, does that
sound too cynical?
– Information on all personnel assocaited with this project? Simply put, why
would I give you guys the money?
– Outline possible alliances that could be created by this project and give
me some idea why these would be beneficial to the long terms success of AREN
and inter-country communications & liaisons between emergency services.
Technological:
– Good sites which can bring me up to speed on Amateur Radio
– Information on all radio and communications licensing bodies in Ireland
and the UK…
– Information about the specific equipment that you propose to use for this
project and a justification of their utilisation in terms of technology and
cost-effectiveness.
– Any technical advances that will result from this project. These could be
purely based on cost efficiency e.g. the introduction of a cost effective
tracking facility for AREN services.
Anyway I hope to hear from you in the near future with answers to all these
questions 😉 BTW< I'll write the propsoal for you!
Sincerest regards,
…shane
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