{"id":10988,"date":"2016-07-16T08:43:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T15:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=10988"},"modified":"2016-07-16T16:36:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T23:36:42","slug":"eric-raymond-skyping-from-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/eric-raymond-skyping-from-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Raymond: Skyping from the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Raymond and his wife Irena fly their Sunseeker Duo from the <em>Aeroporto Voghera Rivanazzano<\/em> near their home in Voghera, Italy.\u00a0 The <em>Provincia di Pavia<\/em> provides wonderful architectural and scenic backdrops for their flights, something captured briefly in a video they filmed last year for Skype and Microsoft.\u00a0 To Eric\u2019s surprise, the commercial was finally released this month.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introducing Skype Meetings\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AOquBjrLdEk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Raymonds and their collaborators are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skype.com\/en\/meetings\/?srcid=110&amp;intcmp=blogs-_-generic-click-_-introducing-free-skype-meetings\">part of a larger advertising campaign for Skype and Microsoft<\/a>, with their high-tech offerings complementing the wireless communications tools and the ad\u2019s graphics.<\/p>\n<p>Eric and Irena, John Lynch, and Jason Rohr perform well for the cameras, but Eric had an extra challenge in the aerial filming.\u00a0 \u201cI was flying in formation with a Phantom drone!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft also featured the team in a tutorial showing how to set up Skype meetings.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to use Skype Meetings\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OqzYdnBOUxc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Eric explained that, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/jldesign.biz\/\">John Lynch<\/a> is one of my CAD designers, and master machinist.\u00a0 He made my nose gear, and is a specialist for propeller molds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJason Rohr is an expert render artist and animator, and another important member of our team,\u201c who is \u201dbusy with other work also.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With an authoritative British voice-over, expert filming, and editing, Solar Flight gets a significant media boost.\u00a0 Congratulations to all.<\/p>\n<div id=\"facebook_like\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fcafe.foundation%2Fblog%2Feric-raymond-skyping-from-the-sky%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=500&amp;action=like&amp;font=segoe+ui&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:500px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Raymond and his wife Irena fly their Sunseeker Duo from the Aeroporto Voghera Rivanazzano near their home in Voghera, Italy.\u00a0 The Provincia di Pavia provides wonderful architectural and scenic backdrops for their flights, something captured briefly in a video they filmed last year for Skype and Microsoft.\u00a0 To Eric\u2019s surprise, the commercial was finally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6894,6834,14],"tags":[159,7385,2854,7386,7387,5821,7388,7389,2858],"class_list":["post-10988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hybrid-aircraft","category-solar-power","category-sustainable_ga","tag-eric-raymond","tag-high-altitude-long-endurance-hale","tag-irena-raymond","tag-jason-rohr","tag-john-lynch","tag-microsoft","tag-skype","tag-solar-flight-transporter","tag-solar-flight-com"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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