Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

Posted by stu_the_flat on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Micro-Manager-at-the-ASCB-meeting-tp1627182p1631183.html

As somebody how is  new to this forum and confocal microscopy in general I have to say I have been greatly interested in the posts that have been put up here. this freeware for confocal was very interesting to me.

However I feel with this forum there is a particular risk of mass e-mails disinteresting participants. exspecily with new people such as my self coming here!

For instance today I spent most of my time trying to figure out an effective way to import a file from a Zeiss 510 (5th generation .lsm) into matlab. I feel that some of you must be able to do that in your sleep however I didn't want to e-mail everybody a really basic question.

Would it be stupid to suggest a check box named something like "small talk" that aim being it would post the message on the forum but would not e-mail everybody?

Cheers Stuart McIntyre

Peter Carroll wrote

 > Why not?

Thats what the rest of the internet is for... otherwise, why limit the
topics to anything? Let's talk about baseball, art, politics, religion
or anything else...



Anda Cornea wrote:
> As it seems that we are to reach a collective decision, my opinion is:
> Why not?
>
> Anda Cornea, Ph.D.
> Director Imaging and Morphology Support Core
> Oregon National Primate Research Center
> Oregon Heath & Science University
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Peter Carroll
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:10 PM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: advertising a booth at a meeting
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>  > If you have to pay for it, it is commercial and such posts should be
> discouraged.
>
> I agree 100%. If I want to buy a product or service, I know where to
> look. Similarly, if I want  to find expert confocal information, I know
> where to look.
>
> Why mix the two?
>
> P
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> Robert J. Palmer Jr. wrote:
>  
>> If you have to pay for it, it is commercial and such posts should be
>> discouraged.
>>
>>    
>>> To All,
>>>
>>> I think I'd like to get some feedback on "what is appropriate for
>>> posting" on this listserv and "what is not appropriate."  To my way
>>> of thinking, it is appropriate to list seminars and workshops when
>>> these are free of charge from both commercial entities and non-profit
>>> (e.g., web seminars).  It is also appropriate to list seminars and
>>> workshops from commercial and non-profit agencies when these are for
>>> a fee, but I would think that many(?) of those on this listserv may
>>> disagree with the inclusion of commercial agencies.  As far as
>>> vendors who are showing at a conference, this is a far stickier
>>> subject.  To my way of thinking, whether the enterprise is for profit
>>> or not for profit, neither should be able to advertise on this
>>> listserv (as much as I, too, am a votary of the micro-manager software).
>>> I think there is a clear separation between "products" and "education."
>>> It would be useful to all to clarify what can be posted and what is
>>> inappropriate.
>>>
>>> If interested, please send email to me at [e-mail] in regard
>>> to this subject if you want to weigh in on it.   I know there will
>>> not be universal agreement, but maybe this can be a means to get to
>>> clarification.  Or maybe it will just be a way to get myself into
>>> trouble.
>>>
>>> Jerry Sedgewick
>>> listserv manager
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [e-mail] wrote:
>>>      
>>>> Seems like commericial ad to me- my compamy, BD, is too ethical to
>>>> allowthis,
>>>> Sally D. Dowling, PhD
>>>> BD Biosciences, Bioimaging Technical Sales
>>>> Ph:  301-351-0524
>>>> http://www.bdbiosciences.com/bioimaging
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *  From: *Nico Stuurman [[e-mail]]
>>>> *  Sent: *12/07/2008 04:10 PM PST
>>>> *  To: *[e-mail]
>>>> *  Subject: *Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you are attending the upcoming  ASCB meeting in San Francisco,
>>>> December 13-17 (http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see us
>>>> in booth 2009 in the Exhibition space.
>>>>
>>>> Micro-Manager (http://micro-manager.org <http://micro-manager.org/>)
>>>> is Open Source software for microscope image acquisition.  It
>>>> controls a large number of scientific grade cameras, microscopes and
>>>> peripherals and lets you take snapshots, do time-lapses, z-stacks,
>>>> and multi-channel images.  It runs as an ImageJ plugin and works
>>>> under the Windows, Mac and Linux OSs. Micro-Manager is being
>>>> developed at the Vale lab at UCSF supported by a grant from the NIH.
>>>>
>>>> We are planning on having a microscope setup consisting of a
>>>> Yokogawa spinning disk confocal, Hamamatsu EM camera, Solamere laser
>>>> launch, Zeiss AxioObserver and ASI XY and piezo Z-stage all run from
>>>> a Mac Pro using Micro-Manager!  We will be demonstrating a way to do
>>>> very fast multi-channel imaging and acquiring Z-stacks using a
>>>> hardware solution based on the Arduino micro-controller
>>>> (http://www.arduino.cc/). This is also your chance to meet the new
>>>> members of the Micro-Manager team: Oleksiy Danikhno (who joined us
>>>> last week) and Arthur Edelstein (who will start in January). Of
>>>> course, our main goal is to meet you, hear about your experiences
>>>> with Micro-Manager, your wishes for future development and
>>>> everything else you would like to tell us.  It is also a great
>>>> opportunity to get personal hands-on training in the use of
>>>> Micro-Manager.  If you are running a microscope with Micro-Manager,
>>>> tell us at the meeting and we might have a Micro-Manager T-shirt
>>>> left for you!
>>>>
>>>> Hope to see you there!
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Nico
>>>>
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