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

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Hi all,

I very much like that option! It is low key and gives a useful option for people that can't join the conference. And in fact, people should come to the conference. That generates income that can be used for all kind of OSGeo activities. Stimulating people to follow livestream / video recordings only cost money. It seems a little contradicting. 

No need to explain I still think there are 1000 reasons someone can not come and offering recordings is very good for them. 

Maybe that should then also become budget neutral? If there are enough people paying / subscribing to a livestreaming track of the conference, they have all the options to follow the presentations while staying home. They save money on travel and registration, but pay a fee to cover for the streaming (or recorded) sessions. I can see lots of benefits. Larger audience, but less people physically present. Registration cost can go down, no competition between participating in real life or being remote, ultimately maybe even more revenue to OSGeo.

Cheers,
Jeroen


On 4 jul. 2013, at 11:51, Arnulf Christl <arnulf at osgeo.org> wrote:

> We had the same discusion about recording or not talks at our latest
> FOSSGIS editition in Switzerland. DUe to living on a much smaller
> budget we opted for recording the voice and slide screencast by just
> adding a little box between the presentation computer and video out.
> This made things a lot cheaper.
> 
> As Paul I do not care too much about live streaming. People should
> come to the conference live. But having the video / screencasts
> available after the conference for later use is a really good thing.
> 
> Cheers,
> Arnulf
> 
> On 07/03/2013 09:07 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 
> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2014/2014_Proposal_Portland_Budget.xls
> 
> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2014/2014_Proposal_Washington_Budget.xlsx
> 
> 
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