I *think* we are going to have a webcam for the Friday night event. Steve is working on it now. It will be at this URL:

CohenKenny Webcam

Remember when we had the webcam for the last contest? January 2006. Steve is polishing off the software he put together for that and it looks like we will be able to do this for the Friday evening event.

I am posting this now in case I forget to later.

Good lord - a webcam! I had better rethink the packing then. Thank goodness I got the hair trimmed today.

How cool is that!!! Great idea, too bad we'll be at the event - NOT! But for the so-many who won't be there we can wave, to them.

Thank you Steve.

Looking forward to seeing both of you, again.

I think this is totally cool!

I wish you had one at Paso.

Thanks so much, Steve,

jan

He has it working. We are using my computer's builtin camera - so we can set up my computer, get it online, then we have the webcam! You can see the image on the computer monitor and you see when it "snaps" - which will be good for people standing in front and saying hello!

We love you Steve!

That is SO cool!

See you both soon.

Pauline and Steve-

What a great idea!!!

See you soon-

Jen

Sooooo! Does this mean that I have to be on my best behaviour?

Absolutely not! Just let's not have any accidents, okay.

Accident-free weekend for all.

Pauline and Steve,

This is really a very great idea!! Thank you for getting it up and running.

See you soon.

Sandra

So, what is the approximate time this will happen?

I don't want to miss it!

Nancy

Friday April 4, 6pm ET.

We can't take credit for the idea - the Gathering Committee thought of it and asked us if we could do it. We have been meaning to get our webcam software up and running again and this was a good excuse.

Tomorrow I will turn it on in our livingroom for so we can do some testing. Maybe someone will see Buddy. He was "live" tonight.

I saw Buddy, live tonight. He looks happy to have you home with him.

Y'all look terrific.

We ran into a hitch, but we have it sorted. There is no wi-fi at the Friday event (but we thought there was). We can go online via my BlackBerry, but the connection will be slower - new images every 10 seconds only.

We will setup the webcam for the other events:

Thursday April 3, 5pm - 7pm ET: Pre-Gathering Gathering. We should have wi-fi for this so the images will change every few seconds.

Friday April 4, 6pm - 9pm ET: Dinner at the Gingerbread House. Turns out we don't have wi-fi here so we will be going online via my BlackBerry with a slower connection. Images will change every 10 seconds or so.

Saturday April 5, 6pm - 9pm ET: Fun at the Fort. This is our big event. I don't think there is wi-fi, so the connection will be slower.

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Too bad we don't have sound with the webcam (is that even possible?). And the images are small but I think it will be fun!

No wi fi at the Fort.

I called and asked.

It will be fabulous to have it Fri night with the Blackberry.

Thank you, Pauline and wonderful tech guru, Steve.

jan

Thanks Pauline and Steve - I e-mailed this information to folks here at home so they can enjoy the festivities vicariously!

Where's Buddy today/tonight?

Anyone see him?

Last night, after his webcam appearance, he brought in a mouse!! We had to take apart our baseboard heaters to rescue the little thing (totally alive).

Two points to the mouse

The Pre-Gathering Gathering starts in about 30 minutes and we are heading over there now - and will set up the webcam! Steve wrote a quick program to save snaps every minute from the webcam so I can put together a slideshow from it.

Savannah is pretty amazing!!

Repeating a post from this thread Images from the Gathering webcam.

Steve wrote a program to keep a webcam snap every minute and save them to a file. I uploaded them to Flickr. If you view them as a slideshow, it is like watching the webcam.

Savannah Gathering Thursday night party

We saved one snap per minute, but I can tell by looking at the ones posted above - we missed some great ones.

At the next events we are uploading via my Blackberry with a slower connection, so the image won't change as quickly.

I see the webcam is now going.

The Friday event was great!! Thanks for capturing some snaps Marta!

We will set it up again tomorrow evening - and this time will try to get the camera angle a bit better!!