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

[Paul Ramsey]

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. Provide a web portal or similar for the general public to link to, and/or
> upload conference videos.

YouTube, Vimeo, have existed for a long while.

> 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).

This seems beyond polyanna'ish. How much of this is happening now
organically (hint: none)

> 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.

OSM managed very professional recordings of their proceedings, and
they generally work on tight dollars, do we know how they pulled that
of?

P.

>
> 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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