Friends in Color and Vision:
I've marvelled at the presence you visionaries have established on
the Net. Please consider supporting the proposed newsgroup for
the color folk outside your field.
If you're not inclined to slog through the official CFV below,
all you need to do is send e-mail
To: voting@hut.fi
and say either
I vote YES on sci.engr.color or
I vote NO on sci.engr.color
If your mail software does not indicate your real name, include the
following statement and add your name on the same line --
Voter name:
You will receive an automated acknowledgement. You may change your
vote later by voting again: only your last vote as of Jan 26 will be
counted. If you wish _more_ information, the discussion summaries at
http://www.colorpro.com/~color/newsgrp.html may be helpful, or you
may contact me directly.
A nice touch is to put my address on your vote with a Cc: or Bcc: --
it may help me through two more weeks of nail biting.
Thank Hue.
Bill Dawes <wmdawes@colorpro.com>
Proponent
______________________________________________________________________
From: Jani Patokallio <jpatokal@alpha.hut.fi>
Date: 5 Jan 1996 18:23:57 -0000
FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
unmoderated group sci.engr.color
Newsgroups line:
sci.engr.color The art, science, and industry of coloring.
Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 26 Jan 1996.
This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. Questions
about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent.
Proponent: Bill Dawes <wmdawes@colorpro.com>
Mentor: Jim Jewett <jimj@eecs.umich.edu>
Votetaker: Jani Patokallio <jpatokal@alpha.hut.fi>
RATIONALE: sci.engr.color
sci.engr.color is intended to serve people with technical
interests in color and the coloring of materials. Though 'color
engineering' is not claimed by any specialty, it is a convenient
term that does not exclude specialists from the diverse
backgrounds that serve the art, science, and industry of
coloring.
Everything we see around us was colored by nature, or by coloring
specialists. This multi-disciplinary field includes
o educators;
o artists, art conservators and restorers;
o colorists, color technologists, scientists, engineers,
mathematicians,
o chemists and spectroscopists;
o designers, stylists, advertisers, psychologists and
philosophers; and
o workers in the pigment, dye, paint, plastics, textile, and
color and appearance instrument industries.
Though workers in vision and lighting may find this group of
interest, the existing newsgroups sci.med.vision and
sci.engr.lighting are more likely to suit their needs. But the
larger scientific color community is poorly served by these
narrowly specialized groups.
The creation of this new group would provide an ideal forum for
the widely diverse specialists in color science, as well as
others with an important though temporary interest in the
technology. There is a significant demand for such interaction,
as evidenced by the growth of the COLORING mailing list to over
250 subscribers in six months. Since the COLORING List is hand
operated, and issued in the form of monthly digests, it fails to
serve the needs of those who want the kind of fast feedback that
sci.engr.color can provide.
The auxiliary COLORING Pages, at http://www.colorpro.com/~color/,
was started in May, 1995. It has an average access rate of over
150 hits per week. Again, it does not provide the rapid
interchange of ideas that a newsgroup can, since it depends on
manual interaction by the webmaster.
CHARTER: sci.engr.color
sci.engr.color will be devoted to the discussion of topics
pertaining to coloring. These include, but are not limited to:
o color education;
o uses and meanings of various colors and combinations;
o color naming, color order systems;
o lighting and filters;
o vision and perception;
o instruments, measurement, standards and calibration;
o color difference metrics and tolerances;
o pigments and dyes;
o safety and environmental concerns;
o color stability;
o color matching, software, colorant calibration, and
o color processes and lab procedures.
Participants engaged in the practice, study, and research on
the above and related topics are welcome, along with those
whose interest in color technology is more transient.
Organizations serving the technology may post brief
announcements here. Mention of products and services
pertinent to topics under discussion are appropriate;
however, advertisers will be encouraged to use the Coloring
Web pages. Similarly, entities seeking workers and people
seeking work will be encouraged to post these needs in the
COLORING List rather than the news group.
END CHARTER.
HOW TO VOTE:
You should send E-MAIL (posts to a newsgroup are invalid) to:
Please do not assume that just replying to this message will work.
Check the address before you mail your vote. Your mail message
should contain one and only one of the following vote statements:
I vote YES on sci.engr.color
I vote NO on sci.engr.color
If your mail software does not indicate your real name (for example,
AOL does not), please also include the following statement and
add your name on the same line.
Voter name:
You may also vote ABSTAIN or CANCEL but these are not counted as valid
votes for the total count.
IMPORTANT VOTING PROCEDURE NOTES:
Standard Guidelines for voting apply. One person, one vote. Votes
must be mailed directly from the voter to the votetaker. Anonymous,
forwarded or proxy votes are not valid. Votes mailed by WWW/HTML/CGI
forms are considered to be anonymous votes.
Vote counting is automated. Failure to follow these directions may
mean that your vote does not get counted. If you do not receive an
acknowledgment of your vote within three days contact the votetaker
about the problem. It's your responsibility to make sure your vote
is registered correctly. Duplicate votes are resolved in favor of
the most recent valid vote. Addresses and votes of all voters will
be published in the final voting results post.
The purpose of a Usenet vote is to determine the genuine interest of
persons who would read a proposed newsgroup. Soliciting votes from
disinterested parties defeats this purpose. Please do not distribute
this CFV. If you must, direct people to the official CFV as posted
to news.announce.newgroups. Distributing pre-marked or otherwise
edited copies of this CFV is generally considered to be vote fraud.
When in doubt, ask the votetaker.
DISTRIBUTION:
In addition to the groups named in the Newsgroups: header, the CFV
and the eventual RESULT posts will be mailed to these mailing list:
COLORING: the art, science and industry at COLOR@colorpro.com
CVNet: Color and Vision Network at CVNet@skivs.ski.org
COLORCAT: Color Categorization List at COLORCAT@brownvm.brown.edu
CoOL: Conservators On Line, through http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/
-- Jani Patokallio <jpatokal@alpha.hut.fi> Voting address: <voting@hut.fi>