the boards.ie photography exhibition wild plan I had

Okay, just some quick questions/updates.

Does anyone object to receiving emails about this as I work through it? If there's a general "okay but don't spam us every five minutes" I'll be looking for some contact details. On the secretarial side of things, it'd help me a lot too if I had more than people's user names (ie your real names) and maybe a phone number.

I'm hoping to get it under way for November which will hopefully be just before I go on holiday myself. My aim is for two weeks gallery time and that is definitely going to be based in Dublin. Depending on how that works out, we could look at running the next one somewhere else.

I have, apparently, 68 group members in flickr, but just 56 photographs. Anyone who is missing there can add until the end of the week if you want to. I am aware of three pix.ie users. It should be noted that this implies quite a large exhibition. Because it is such a large group then, it is definitely limited to just one image per participant at this stage.

There were a couple of ideas tossed out when this last came up in the way of brochures and books. These things obviously cost money and they take time to put together. I'd like it if the community could think about how they feel about these ideas. We could possibly look into a calendar (yes I know that's only 12 or 13 images) and maybe see about selling that in favour of a boards nominated charity, for example. One of the other things I was thinking off was maybe a set of postcards, for example. I don't know if you have any other thoughts on the subject. A lot depends on how you, the community providing the images feel about this.

We also need to think about whether images on display will be made available for sale or not, and the ramifications of that as pretty much any gallery is going to want to take a cut of the proceeds. I'm getting vibes of a 50% cut, incidentally.

When the time comes, we will need to get the message out there. So we're going to need a banner for boards.ie and the aid of a friendly admin to run it. I'm happy to design the banner, but we will need help on the PR front. Any ideas welcome. I'm thinking a couple of the local radio stations in the greater Dublin area and if anyone knows the names of the arts editors of the national newspapers, please let me know because I don't. Any of you who have blogs too, I'd strongly appreciate it if you got involved in pushing the message out. This is further down the line, say in the three weeks before we open. Any of you who are willing to talk to stations like Near FM, Anna Livia, Raidio na Life and whatever replaces Rattlebag, please let me know.

I'm interested in putting a special site together for this. I have a reasonable amount of hosting space for the moment but may need someone to generate a few flash galleries for me via LR (the PS ones are not nice and I am not configuring a Coppermine gallery for it). I am willing to sort out things like domain name registration for that and keep an eye on the site.

New members between here and D-Day. In principle I don't have an issue if a few new regulars turn up and want to participate, except if I have weight of numbers problems in terms of gallery space. I've thought about this long and hard...I'd welcome other people's views on this.

I'd welcome comments on this front, thanks. I'd like this to be reasonably democratic because it's not my show at all...but at the same time, stuff will need to get done as well.

Hi folks.

I am currently in discussions with Dublin Camera Club about the possibility of them hosting this exhibition in their premises on Camden Street sometime next year and they are amenable to the idea. Obviously they will have their own procedures to go through with respect to a final yes/no and we are now at the next stage of trying to move things along. I want to reiterate at this stage that it is not certain but is very possible pending how things go here and how things go within the Dublin Camera Club itself as obviously, they have a major interest in how we go about this if they agree to host us.

There are a couple of points I need to raise with respect to our side of things and, as a result, some cooperation that I would need from you.

I have been requested to provide a selection of photographs, printed, to Dublin Camera Club to enable them to get a better idea of what it is we do, the range of work we produce, and the quality of it. These prints need to be A4 sized. I intend to draw these from the flickr pool. I need to know if anyone has any objections to me using their photogaphs for this purpose. I would assume that having submitted photos to the pool, most people are okay with this?

I am in a position to do the printing myself; however if anyone would prefer to arrange a print themselves, they will need to flag it to me. I will not be sending all photographs from the pool at this stage; just a brief selection to give the authorities in DCC an idea of what we do and how good it is.

If that is okayed by Dublin Camera Club, we will move on to the next stage. Dublin Camera Club's gallery can accommodate approximately 30 photographs. I know that the flickr group+pix.ie community interested in participating exceeds this by some distance. I will, at that stage, need a final decision from each photographer regarding what photograph they would like to submit for the exhibition and a selection will be done on that basis.

IF we reach this stage, there will be a standard mount of window mount on 16x20 inches, and the mountboards will need to be black.

I also would greatly appreciate it if posters who are already members of Dublin Camera Club or intending to join would let me know.

I'd also like to add that I would like to thank Cabansail and DCC for their support so far.