Re: In line with dumb ideas...

[Paolo Velcich <pavel@mail.nauta.it>]

Brian Danielson ha scritto:

This idea is a response to our new Italian member : Tommaso Ravaglioli
[tomrava@tin.it]. (in other words, reading that email prompted this
thought).

The idea
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What if we all, that is everybody on the list, write up a paragraph or
two summary of what they do, what their interest in psubs is, or any
other relevant information that may be of interest to the group (keeping
it short, or they won't get read... maybe just using bullet items rather
than paragraphs).
 

I absolutely and totally agree with Brian, here I put my personal data
in a short form and I'm more than happy to share my ideas and - small -
experience with other enthusiasts in the list.
Information is probably the most important component for any project,
from the simpler to the most demanding - and you know how challenging is
the development of any underwater device involving humans or the environment
itself.

About the icon, I partially agree with Tommaso as the dolphin is widely known as the symbol of the sea itself (from the ancient Greece and probably earlier) and it's considered the sea creature which is closer to the man.
On the other side the dolphin image is a bit too much used but I think it's not important how much a symbolic image is being used but HOW it's being used.

But I think the icon represents a second step (in order of importance) on the list of the things to do, the organization of an official group involves many other tasks which are important. I would suggest a subdivision of the tasks between the group members following their interests, competences and availability.

A statute (or constitution text) should be the first in the list - if it's not already done - followed by the list of objectives the organization should pursue.

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• Name:Paolo Velcich
• Nationality:Italian
• Occupation: Industrial (product) designer
• Field of interest: arctic exploration, underwater exploration
• Sports: Skydiving, Scubadiving, Cavediving (suspended).
• Time in the sport (scuba): all the life (39) in the sea, official license from 1981.
• Experience: actually developing and prototyping a line of underwater devices including technical lighting systems and diver propulsion systems.
• Knowledge: various, due to my occupation, from 3D computer design and modeling to plastic injection moulding to composites, to prototyping, tooling and machining, ergonomics, virtual and rapid prototyping...
• Software used: various from CAD to multimedia...
• Software available in house: SDRC I-DEAS (parametric hybrid solid/surface modeler), Microstation V5.0, Rhino 3D (I strongly recommend to everybody, it's an easy and powerful NURBS based modeler and it's still freely available in beta-test at www.rhino3D.com), SolidThinking, Lightscape 3.11, Photoshop, Premiere...
• PC platform: PII 300 - 128MB - 10GB - OGL card -  WinNT4.0.
• Available when needed: more advanced modules of I-DEAS (for FEM analysis and othe postprocessing tasks), ADAMS (for dynamic analysis) on both NT and SGI.
• Internet: ISDN 64Kb connection, web-space available (on US servers) for hosting and - eventually - mirroring.
• Services: My main expertise is in the field of design, giving a good shape and functionality to a product is my business. I have a 15 years of experience in computer graphics and 3D modeling and I can access to other specialized resources when needed - in the field of structural analysis and dynamics (usually very busy men, two of them are joining the scuba community soon in the next few weeks, so I hope they'll be more easily involved).
• I also have a good experience in the field of web-design (not java apps, I'm not a programmer) as I did it for a couple of years.
• Finally, during my professional activity I was mostly involved on hi-tech products design and development, expecially in the electronic field (both instrumentation, industrial and consumer), so I keep good relationships with electronic designers and manufacturers as well with software developers. All these guys are very busy men but sometimes I can get some good contribution - my lighting systems are being microprocessor driven and the DPVs will also share the technology.

I hope the list above complies with the Brian's suggestions and helps getting started the structure of the group.
I'm really enjoing the partecipation in the mail-list, I only suggest to keep low (I mean acceptable) the volume of not-inherent messages as they would probably annoy the most of the members (I could notice this on other mail lists I'm on). I will better explain, the numerous messages about the icon were going close to the acceptable limit of interest being more jokes than real suggestions. This is good if occasional (humour helps keeping the spirit high) but it's dangerous if it goes too far.

I'm understand I was very verbose, I apologize for this and I hope I didn't offend anybody. I'll keep shorter in teh future.

Blue skies and depp blues

Paolo

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Paolo Velcich
industrial designer

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