Electronic Theatre Controls

By way of background, I am one of those customers who moved to Ion from an Express 125. I expect there are, or will be, a lot of us making this leap over the next few years. I like the Ion, and I really like what it is going to make it possible for my community theatre to do as our lighting inventory catches up. I have been looking through ...

Hi, Nice to see this is still moving.  We've been off during the summer but now that we are back at it the EOS manual continues to be less than fully responsive to our inquiries.  Not that you aren't doing pretty well, but I still believe us users could add greatly to a knowledgebase type of manual with experiential notes and ...

We can get you permission to print the manual if you need it. But first, look inside the front cover (bottom of the second page)... ''ETC permits the reproduction of materials in this manual only for non-commercial purposes. All other rights are reserved by ETC.'' This was put there to help resolve this issue. (Basically, we just don't want ...

A great example of an on-line manual that incorporates contributions by users is the PHP manual (PHP is a web programming language). http://us.php.net/docs.php Here's an example page: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.mkdir.php Each page of the manual is a web page about a specific feature. At the bottom of each page are the user ...

I was thinking of that same exact thing today!  That would be truly glorious.    Getting up the nerve to begin programming my first Ion show tomorrow!   Pat 

Hey Dennis!  Long-time no talk...  I will contact you and any others that post (or email) that they'd like to try this.  The main couple things that I'd like to know (once we try it) is if it's more useful to people than the pdf's we already post. It'd be great to be able to collect information on our docs from people (comments, ...

An update on the wiki manual idea... I have converted a quick 4-page manual for the RFR into a wiki on my personal domain that's running a wiki. I'd like to convert one more short doc, get that posted and send you (anyone who contacts me as being interested...) a user name a password. I'd like this to be contained for the moment because this is ...

Hey all... This thread actually caused us to add a new forum to the group. ''Documentation and Training'' now has its own forum and ''Documentation'' under that. I've moved (and quoted) this thread there and hope to continue the discussion over there. Thanks -Steve

eugp: Hi,  Might it be possible to create an online Wiki type of manual where users could annotate and post to a common, shared manual?  I understand this would add yet another task for the EOS/ION team to manage and moderate, but the result would be a rich and detailed set of instructions and experience available to ...

I have to tell you... this has sparked the conversation again here at ETC. While I don't know exactly what's possible yet, I have found a few leads out there on how to make this go easier.  That brings me to the next question... What smaller/shorter/simpler document would like us to try this out on? (assuming the other necessary stars align ...