Richard Girard #7513

girard@wbcci.net 

Rally Photo Album

Lynda has uploaded several videos to Veoh.com

Riveting

Riveting #2

Vintage Airstream Polishing

Solar Panels

Airstream25

When we first came up with the idea for this rally, we thought it would be good and I remember when we first talked to the campground about bringing all our tools and told them we were going to make noise, I really was not sure how this would turn out - I’m here to tell you it was unreal - the amount of time that presenters put into their presentations and the hands on experience that everyone got was just incredible - as rallies go it will be very difficult to top this one - the presenters, attendees, sponsors and the stars really aligned, but I promise that now that we have one under our belt, next years will be even better - YES! this is now an annual FCU event - so mark your calanders for the last weekend in April 2009 for an even better event!

Ken J

We attended the Unit #69 VLA Rally last weekend and had very interesting tours of the VLA facility, Magdalena and the old Kelly Mine.

Pictures

photos, videos, and music about the Airstream lifestyle

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News from Rich

Welcome! It’s great to see all you new members joining and uploading their Airstream lifestyle photos. (Editors Note: Uploading photos/videos/music is free)

We’re looking for Airstream photos for the magazine! Check my blog post for details (see below or on my home page).

Don’t forget, we can also host video, so please upload any Airstream-related short videos that you have shot.

When you submit photos, go ahead and add them to the Albums I’ve created. If you see a need for another Album, just make one. It’s easy.

In case you missed Dead Horse 2, don’t worry plans are now being made for Dead Horse 3.

While most of us have our Airstreams tucked in for the winter, this is a good time to learn something new and something that appears to be a natural fit for the FCU which touts itself as a modern online connected unit.

I am talking about the free software program called Skype available for Windows, Mac, Linux and WiFi enabled cell phones.

Features

• Free Skype-to-Skype calls to people anywhere in the world.
• Free video calls - plus get more detail than ever before with High Quality Video.
• Call land line phones and mobiles at pretty cheap rates per minute.
• Instant message when it’s not a good time to talk.
• Forward your calls and get text messages when you’re not online.

Download

Visit your local Radio Shack or an online store for a web cam & mic if you don’t have them already built into your laptop.

Join jheald, Worner, Hatfield, Duke and others who are already online.

Skype is a great way to stay connected with one on one video calls. It also supports group audio only calls that may be useful for conducting FCU business online.

Once you have Skype set up, give me a call to try it out; jheald is my Skype name.

The solution is to have the pictures and videos stored elsewhere and just provide links on the wbcci.net web site to them.

For example, pictures can be stored at your free Picasa web site, (http://picasaweb.google.com/home), a free Sharpcast web site, (http://www.sharpcast.com/), etc.

Videos can be stored for free at http://video.google.com/, http://www.youtube.com/, etc.

The FCU has used Sharpcast to store most of our rally photos except the balloon rally which has some photos at Picasa and a video at Youtube.

If you have rally or other FCU related pictures/video, send me the URL address to them along with a short description and I will link them to our web site.

Note: FCU officers can make their own additions to our web site. If you are interested and need help, ask me how to do this.

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