Baller02 wrote: ↑18 Aug 2019 00:17
What about a sticky thread for all sub topics with general calibration best practices + Software specific ones.
This will save beginners a lot of time and they don’t add more errors to the picture.
Hi,
Currently I'm looking initially to focus to interface colors/layout/design changes.
While I do that initial procedure to setup the forum, I have locked the root forum threads per each software until the interface decisions and each page design will be competed.
There will be added meter/hardware threads also to the root page of the forum, each one will have recommendation of setting, installation notes, issues discussion, FAQ etc.
Then we will start talking about creating the categories per software/meter/hardware.
There will be separation from general settings recommendation/explanation for software, meters, pattern generators, other hardware etc... from discussions/tips/best practices and methodology/recommendation for calibration steps etc.
The plan is to separate the 'valuable info' from general discussions. This is not happening to current calibration forums where 'valuable info' is mixed with unanswered questions, so its not easy for anyone to locate the 'valuable info' easily. This is the purpose of this forum.
We will add post-calibration results area where the users will be able to post their measurements results per display/projector model, but we will set rules about how someone can post his reports.
The user will have to inform about every single detail for software/meter/hardware settings/display firmware etc... for his posted measurements results, so all his details to be helpful for other people with similar software/hardware, when they will try to calibrate using same settings to their setup.
Each one measurement will be a new topic for a specific display, so each topic will talk specifically for that measurement run/results.
To keep the posted measurement stuff uniform, each post probably it will require review first before approval to be public, in case the user will forget to post some important details, he will get a PM of what settings are missing..... in case the post will not meet the general rules, it will be moved to display area with in-complete or to quick general measurement runs topic.
There will be no any filtering of good or bad results, all results will be approved when the user will have post all his settings and calibration steps he performed, so this will help some other users to point to the user some issues or recommend something else to help improving the results to the next calibration session, or users can suggest a better solution to improve the calibration, locate wrong settings etc.
When some 'valuable info' will come from one user which can help generally all users of the same display, they info will be moved to the general tips of the specific display are, with the name of the user also and link to the original user post.
Doing all this after some time, there will be full documentation per each display model, so someone who want to calibrate a new display for him, a different brand/model from the one he is familiar to calibrate, he will be able to find quickly the 'valuable info' and not waste time reading various pages of other forums until he will find something useful.
The topics with questions about issues, when each specific issue will be resolved, that info will be moved also to 'valuable info' area and the topic will be marked as 'Resolved Issue'.
You can post your ideas also... now its only the beginning of something which will become powerful in the future.