Discussion lists

Finding yourself out of the loop? Perhaps you are not subscribed to enough panotools related mailing lists and forums? Confused? you will be.

Mailing lists

• proj-imim, Helmut Dersch's original mailing list no longer exists, though the membership was transferred relatively smoothly to the panotools list in early 2003.

• PanoToolsNG, the main discussion list for users for panorama tools and related GUI tools.

• panotools-list, a meta-list for discussion of management of the main panotools list.

• panotools-devel, a list for developers of panotools and the pano12 library in particular.

• panotools-meeting, a list for planning the (annual?) panotools meeting. The 2006 meeting is in Bath.

• panotools-cvs, not a discussion list, a read only archive of every change to the panotools sourcecode.

• hugin-ptx, discussion of Linux and Unix related panorama software and hugin in particular (note August 2006: After four years and 5400 messages, the old ptx list has successfully migrated from email-lists.org to google groups, all are welcome at the new hugin-ptx address).

• freepv-devel, a list related to development of the freepv open source viewer for panorama content.

• QuickTime-VR, Apple's mailing list for users of QuickTime VR.

• iqtvra, the International VR Photography Association have a mailing list for members only, this is in addition to web boards (see below).

• wwp, the list for the World Wide Panorama event held every three months.

• PanoramicPhotography-ns, another Yahoo list, 'Panoramic Photography without the Spam' it says in the description.

• panorama-stitching, yet another Yahoo list.

• photopanorama (fr), French list.

• ptgui beta testers, ptgui list

Forum resources and web boards

• ptassembler, message boards related to PTAssembler.

• kekus digital, various message boards related to PTMac.

• ivrpa forums, the International VR Photography Association have some message boards.

• panoguide, message boards on the panoguide site.

• 360 rage, message boards on the 360rage site.

• panolab, panolab forum.

• SPi-V dev, forums for users of the SPi-V panorama viewer.

• Pano2QTVR, forums for users of the Pano2QTVR tool.

• DevalVR support, forum for users of DevalVR.

other resources

• panoramas.dk, panoramas tutorials, software listing
• vrmag.org, news about virtual reality
• Big Ben's Panorama Tutorials
• Ken Turkowski, QuickTime VR Authoring Tricks
• Philo's Home Page - Tutorials, Lego, Home of the Philopod

non-english resources

• Panorama-Community, german-speaking panoramic photography forum