[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2014 Bid Q&A Period - recording presentations

[Cameron Shorter]

I agree that recording is valuable for outreach (streaming is not 
important). $50K or $67K seems be the cost of paying for recording 
professionally. Ever since FOSS4G 2009, I've wondered about a cheaper 
way to achieve similar goals, and there is another way.

1. Provide a web portal or similar for the general public to link to, 
and/or upload conference videos.
2. Invite presenters to ask a friend to record them.
3. Invite presenters to edit their own presentations. (provide a HOWTO 
showing how to do this).
4. Also invite the general audience if they could do the same.

The outcome would result is reduced quality presentations (which I don't 
see as a major problem), and probably only 50% or so of presentations 
would be recorded, but it would reduce the cost of this line item to 
close to $0.

On 4/07/2013 5:07 AM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Thanks for the great questions Jeroen!
> Not answering for the bidders, but noting in principle that I think
> money spent on recording is immensely useful for the community in
> general. If FOSS4G is about education and outreach, putting the talks
> online where anyone can see them is a huge part of that mission. I
> could care less about live streaming, personally, but having talks
> online, particularly shortly after the event, is a huge value IMO, and
> worthy of a budget line.
> P
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Jeroen Ticheler
> <jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net> wrote:
>
>
> Both submitters (and committee members):
> - Do we have statistics on how many viewers we have / had for the AV streaming of conference presentations? I notice that in both proposals the streaming services are quite expensive (Portland 67.500$, Washington 50.000$) although I'm not sure the Washington number includes other facilities as well?
> I think it is relevant to understand if this investment in streaming video is worth the money or that money would be better spend in another way / could lower the registration fees.
> An option is also to record plenary presentations instead of all sessions?
>
> Cheers,
> Jeroen
>
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