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

[Jachym Cepicky]

I basically like your proposal, Cameron, to (again) focus on the
community and help to build infrastructure, where people could

1) upload their presentations
2) other's could upload their videos/sound records

In this way, we would really achieve reasonable information value and
quality, for very little investment

So the question to the bidders from me (but I'm not part of the
conference committee) would sound:

*Reading this thread, do you consider it good idea, to reduce this
"recording" costs to the level, where simple, but working,
infrastructure would be set (as described in this e-mail), which could
be used also for other FOSS4G* events (global or local)?*

Maybe the saved money could go to the lowering of conference fees than ;-)

Jachym

Dne 3.7.2013 23:13, Cameron Shorter napsal(a):
> 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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