This site now has 20 artist galleries and a link list of Daguerreotypists that stands at 50. Of course there are bound to be more practitioners out there and we are always looking to find new ones or ones we have missed. We are hoping to have as many galleries of contemporary practitioners as possible. There is also a gaggle of currently listed artists that have expressed interest in having a gallery page on the site but have yet to send in their images. Carpe diem as there are some big and exciting changes coming to the site.

We are planning on shifting both current sites to a .org website address as we fully intergrate the Dagforum and the .info blog. On the surface you probably won’t notice this when it happens as the current website addresses will have automatic redirects to the new one, though there may be some cosmetic changes to the design.

This is the end product of the initial collaboration between the two separate sites to solidify our community website intent, hence the move to a .org website address. The intergration means that the blog and forum will run on the same software so users will only need one login to comment on posts in the blog or make posts in the Forum.

A new and exciting feature being incorporated into the change is the addition of a self contained Wiki into the site using the mediawiki software. Through the wiki we hope to build a comprehensive resource to the Daguerreotype process which will incorporate the material available on the resources page and one that practioners can add too in a systematic way.

The other big change already bearing fruits is that Andy Stockton of TheDaguerreotypist.com has agreed to join Jon Lewis and myself (Alan Bekhuis) in management of the site. We all share the same enthusiasm for building a online Daguerreian community.