The Murphy Builders Site

Hey, Bob, I've always envied you guys out east with
your Rebel Builders' meeting. Here, in MAM's backyard,
we have no such thing. I know you guys have a lot more
Rebels out there, too, than we have, but not sure if
that is a cause or effect of the meetings. Maybe if we
had a non-MAM factory rep here...

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com
[mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com]On Behalf Of Bob
Patterson
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 8:59 AM
To: murphy-rebel@dcsol.com
Subject: Re: Audio records of Brampton meetings



Thanks Mike !

This certainly sounds intriguing !
It might just put a
lot of folks to sleep, though ... ;-)

I recall we tried to audio tape one
meeting, but there
were so many people talking, and so much
noise, that the one mike
couldn't pick up all of the comments - just
too fuzzy to catch
everything, so we scrapped the idea as not
too useful. Had thought
we might transcribe notes from the tapes ...

A LOT of the learning takes place at
break time, when
we go out to view visiting Rebels, in
one-on-one discussions -
again, hard to capture. We do say "You just
have to BE there !" ;-)
I know that's pretty hard - it's a long
commute from Alaska
every couple of months !

Technology marches on, though -
maybe we can try again in
a year or so, with a digital camcorder and a
couple of better mikes.
Now that I have "high-speed" (hah! ....
well, 'better') access, it
won't take quite so long to send. (Maybe we
could even try a
web-cam ! :-) )

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I think what I'd like to see - and
I'm willing to help
get it going - is for others to start Rebel
Builders Meetings in
different areas. I know many of you already
get together occasionally
to exchange ideas - this would just
formalize it into a regular
meeting, say every 2 months, wherever there
are 5 or 6 builders
within driving distance. We try to do
Builder Visits in the months
between meetings - again, seeing the other
guy's workshop & tools
can really be helpful. All it would take
is one person to be
group leader, and organize the meetings.
Ideally, they would be in
the same place every 2 months, so folks
would get to know when
they could learn about building - so we
could attract RAA & EAA
people as well.

The organization would be called
Rebel Owners International -
because the Rebel family gives excellent
'Return On Investment' !! ;-) :-)
I think we could get some assistance from
the factory to help make
this fly - it can certainly help with
marketing, as well as
building !! Maybe even crests for jackets
and hats ...

Video is a great suggestion, and we
REALLY appreciate all
the work you put in to provide this list -
it's really been a lifesaver
for SO many builders. This is the ONLY way
we have to spread the
experience around, and it is just invaluable !!

Thanks again !
.....bobp

PS
Will try to 'borrow' a WinDoze
machine to try the ASF ... ;-)

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At 06:59 AM 4/24/03 -0800, you wrote:

Bobp,

A couple of years ago the question of

taking notes during your meetings was

brought up, but you had found this

difficult to accomplish and end up with

anything useful. You mentioned at the time

that you had made audio recordings

of at least a couple of meetings. I bring

this up now because with the new

server I've built I now have the ability to

offer streaming multimedia. This

means that multimedia files like audio and

video can be sent in a stream

allowing large files to be listened

to/viewed with relatively low bandwidth...

just like listening to the radio over the

internet. If you were to start

recording your meetings again, you could

send me a tape and I could then play

the tape into the computer and allow other

builders to listen to the meetings.

If you'd like to try it out, use Windoze

Media Player to go to:

mms://www.dcsol.com/welcome2.asf

Just a thought.

Mike


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