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#5 - Forming a User Group
When Autodesk told me in 1983 that they hadn't organized their users' group yet, I pointed out this wasn't their job, and that some of their 3000 users should take that responsibility. With their cooperation, I founded the first AutoCAD Users Group in 1984. I used a newsletter (eventually — and still today — "CADalyst" maga-zine) to facilitate the exchange of techniques to help others use the program better, and to lobby the software makers for specific improvements. Autodesk fostered the publication (gaining some aditional credibility by doing so) and I rode on the coattails of their success.
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Posted on May 2, 2007.
#4 - Feedback Rewards
Feedback, feedback, feedback! This spreadsheet template has not been developed with best practice: there's been no frequent iteration of development stages involving professional committees of theatre and computer people. It's just one man's idea of what might be useful, based on my youthful stage management work (done 30-35 years ago), and made possible now by my more recent careers in computing and publishing.
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Posted on May 2, 2007.
#3 - Beta Testers Wanted
I hope the keenest of you site visitors might volunteer as Beta testers to give these first five play scripts and spreadsheets a thorough examination and exploration. Alpha testing will have been confined to checking that all line count audit totals are confirmed, and that every automated routine or macro in every spreadsheet and script is in working order. Beta testing involves actually giving the routines a bit of a thrashing. But there's a reward...
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Posted on May 2, 2007.
#2 - AATE Conference
2a. (May 11/07 LJ Memo to staff) Just got an update from the AATE conference: I'll make my first presentation to the American Alliance of Theatre and Education at 3:15pm for an hour on August 1 at the Westin Bayshore - lucky me they've chosen to come to Vancouver. It excites and terrifies me that it'll be the first public exposure of the Spreadsheet Shakespeare. It also makes the end of July a big deadline for us!
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Posted on May 2, 2007.
#1 - Script Printing
#1a: (May 6/07 LJ Memo to staff) I've noticed in rehearsals that our letter-size scripts in loose-leaf binders or duo-tangs, double-sided or not, are a nuisance for actors because they're too big. Fitting two of our pages sideways on legal-size paper (four pages per sheet, double-sided) would make for much less paper - both handier for actors to use onstage in rehearsal and cheaper for producers to print. Saves trees too...
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Posted on May 2, 2007.
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