Peal Compositions Committee 2003 Annual Report
The committee currently holds no face to face meetings, but is in regular electronic contact via email.
The electronic collection has grown to over 2,000 peal compositions, and we hope to add more in the coming year. It is currently averaging over 5,000 hits (that is, delivering a page of content to a web browser) each month. It can be visited through the committee's web page at
http://www.cccbr.org.uk/compositions/collections
or directly by pointing a browser at
http://www.ringing.org/peals
The committee is currently working on several new print collections. The replacement ten and twelve bell collection is nearly finished, and should be in production soon. Because of the quantity of material received it will be published as two separate collections, one of royal and the other of maximus and above.
A new Grandsire collection, covering all stages, was started in late 2002 and has progressed rapidly. A first draft has been produced, and is currently being reworked.
Also started in late 2002 is a modern replacement for the Stedman Caters and Cinques collection. Sufficient material for this collection has now been collected and proved, and a selection of what to include in the printed collection is being made.
We remain disappointed at the infrequency with which we are able to produce pages of compositions for publication in The Ringing World. To alleviate some of the difficulties we are now working to engage more members of the committee in the actual layout process. This is requiring some changes in the exact versions of software used, and we are grateful to the staff of The Ringing World for their help in working out how we can successfully deliver pages to them from multiple members of the committee using varying computer resources.
In an attempt to at least reduce the time until submitted compositions see publication in some form we have begun adding submissions to the web site without waiting for them to be published in The Ringing World, as had been the case previously. We hope that this will allow us in most cases to make compositions available within a few weeks of receipt.
Richard Allton
Roger Bailey
Roddy Horton
Stuart Hutchieson
Ian McCulloch
Julian Morgan
Don Morrison (Chairman)
Stephen Pettman
Philip Saddleton
