Conference recordings

Mon Jun 23 20:08:17 UTC 2014

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On 06/23/2014 04:03 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
> On 06/23/2014 04:00 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> streams and record for posterity at once.  While this isn't
>> optimal from a "do everything with 100% FOSS" perspective, it's
>> considerably less expensive and people-resource-consuming than
>> many alternatives.
>> 
>> With a SOP for these recordings, it's relatively easy for one
>> person in each room to set up such a stream with a
>> webcam-equipped laptop. Again, I think this was what happened at
>> Flock '13, and it went pretty darned well.
>> 
>> Requires the laptops of course, so I guess this is a followup
>> question whether we have access to them.
> 
> We're still waiting to hear on the status of available AV resources
> at the university. We no longer have easy access to that laptop
> pool, so we'd need to start scraping things together if we're doing
> that again.
> 
> Honestly, I wonder if it is worth the trouble. I don't think these 
> videos are getting many hits (and almost no one watched them live
> last year).
> 

I raised the question mostly because I just sat in on a Board meeting
where a number of people who can't make it to Flock wanted to know if
Christoph's "Fedora.next and the Future of Spins" talk was going to be
recorded.

(Sidebar: that would be an absolutely terrible children's book. We
should do that.)