[OSGeo-Conf] [Board] Motion to create a youtube account FOSS4G

[Eli Adam]

+1 to FOSS4G youtube account.  Till raised a few good questions
pertaining to the logistics side.

Best regards, Eli

On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 11:03 PM Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de> wrote:
>
> Dear Astrid,
>
> I think this is a good idea - although personally I am not big fan of
> these social stuff, I hink it's a good way to promote open Source GIS
> tools, as a lot of people outside our community will not find the other
> channels, where we put our video-mateirals.
>
> I have some practical issues regarding this:
>
> - who administers this account?
>
> - who actually puts the videos online?
>
> - do we need to get additional permission from the speakers?
>
>
> Reagrds, Till
>
>
>
> Am 15.06.19 um 23:02 schrieb Cameron Shorter:
> > +1 Great idea to have the FOSS4G youtube channel.
> >
> > We should decide whether we want this channel to be just for the
> > international FOSS4G, or can be extended so that regional and local
> > events can use it too.  (I'm in favour of it being open to regional
> > and local FOSS4G events).
> >
> > On 15/6/19 11:19 pm, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Youtube would only be a third location of our FOSS4G videos. Only an
> >> offer not a must have. They have already all videos in TIB AV-Portal
> >> (if the LOC provides them) and we can have them at https://media.ccc.de
> >>
> >> The videos will have the CC BY-SA 4.0 License (speaker have to agree
> >> in advance)
> >> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
> >>
> >> He have a page that refers to the video locations:
> >> http://video.foss4g.org/
> >>
> >> So youtube would be a nice to have but is not necessary.
> >>
> >> Astrid
> >>
> >> Am 15.06.2019 14:03 schrieb María Arias de Reyna:
> >>> HI,
> >>>
> >>> Youtube has many obvious SEO and positioning advantages, but I'm
> >>> doubtful of having all our videos on a privative platform like
> >>> Google/Youtube, specially if we have enough "iron" to host ourselves.
> >>> (See for example [1], we may have even more iron incoming). At least,
> >>> I wouldn't have it as the primary entrypoint and storage of videos
> >>> with such educational and state of the art value.
> >>>
> >>> On a quick look I couldn't find any good explanation on the possible
> >>> issues with Youtube and the license/IP. I assume you already checked
> >>> for FOSSGIS and it is clear? I understand that "YOU GRANT TO YOUTUBE A
> >>> NON-EXCLUSIVE, WORLDWIDE, perpetual license to freely sub-license,
> >>> re-distribute, re-publish, monetize, and whatever they may want to do
> >>> with your video"[2]. Would they be able to copy/paste and alter the
> >>> video and then redistribute it in a way that is bad for OSGeo? (I know
> >>> they have done some copy/paste to use for promotional videos, not sure
> >>> if something else.)
> >>>
> >>> They may monetize the videos. Are we ok with that? Are we going to ask
> >>> all our speakers to be ok with that?
> >>>
> >>> (And the answer may be that we are ok with all this, I just wanted to
> >>> raise the issue.)
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> María
> >>>
> >>> [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2019-June/011163.html [7]
> >>> [2] https://tubularinsights.com/youtube-copyright-ownership/ [8]
> >>> (using this link because Youtube insists on showing me the Spanish
> >>> version of the license)
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 11:52 AM Astrid Emde (OSGeo)
> >>> <astrid_emde at osgeo.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> FOSS4G is coming closer and we are planning to record all the
> >>>> videos
> >>>> from FOSS4G 2019 together with the c3voc-video team.
> >>>>
> >>>> They will be uploaded at
> >>>> * https://media.ccc.de/search/?q=FOSS4G [1]
> >>>> * and at TIB AV-Portal https://av.tib.eu/search?q=FOSS4G&loc=de [2]
> >>>>
> >>>> and if we want at youtube.
> >>>>
> >>>> I would like to suggest to create a youtube account called "FOSS4G"
> >>>> for
> >>>> the global FOSS4G event.
> >>>>
> >>>> This account does not exist yet.
> >>>>
> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/user/foss4g [3]
> >>>>
> >>>> Advantage
> >>>> * with a permanent account people could subscribe
> >>>> * all videos from FOSS4G are in one account
> >>>> * better ranking for an active channel
> >>>>
> >>>> There are many accounts for the individual events like:
> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=FOSS4G [4]
> >>>>
> >>>> F.e. we have a similar accounts for FOSSGIS where we upload every
> >>>> year
> >>>> our FOSSGIS-conference videos here (maybe also the FOSS4G europe
> >>>> and NA
> >>>> videos if we want)
> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/user/fossgis/videos [5]
> >>>>
> >>>> What do you think about this idea?
> >>>>
> >>>> Astrid
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> Board mailing list
> >>>> Board at lists.osgeo.org
> >>>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board [6]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Links:
> >>> ------
> >>> [1] https://media.ccc.de/search/?q=FOSS4G
> >>> [2] https://av.tib.eu/search?q=FOSS4G&loc=de
> >>> [3] https://www.youtube.com/user/foss4g
> >>> [4] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=FOSS4G
> >>> [5] https://www.youtube.com/user/fossgis/videos
> >>> [6] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
> >>> [7] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2019-June/011163.html
> >>> [8] https://tubularinsights.com/youtube-copyright-ownership/
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