As of May 16th I have been employed with the Alumnae Association for over a year and am experiencing my first official Alumnae Reunion weekend. Because I was so new last year I was not required to work the weekends, but I am making up for it this year. I have been commissioned to create the first virtual Global Reunion. It is a program that makes reunion highlights available online to alumnae around the world. Global Reunion’s features include a Message Board, Photo Galleries, Online Videos, Webcam and Guestbook. Images of the events are posted on line later the same day, or leat the following day.
The project is a combination of passive and interactive features that involve a variety of different applications (most of which are open source and/or free software) and technologies. I will be devoting separate articles to some of the programs I have used and the processes of getting a large number of videos and photos online in a short span of time that was not possible just a few years ago.
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