Hi Everyone,<br><br>First, let me thank Chuck Thibert, Scott Mitchell, and Alex Djioev. Their dedication as volunteers to record the talks at FOSS4G2009 has made this possible. Thank you so much guys, you were an absolute pleasure to work with and it was nice to have people you could have absolute faith in doing the recording. <br>
<br>Thank you to Thanh Ha for developing the capture software. It is 100% open source based in case anyone is interested and would like to check it out. <br><br>Also, I'd like to thank Daniel, Steve and the I.T. & A/V teams for making our jobs easy. We've done a lot of events and this was clearly the best in terms of A/V setup and know-how. Nice job and very impressive!<br>
<br>Last but not least, thank you to Cameron for having faith and pushing through with letting FOSSLC record the talks. We both got a few more grey hairs no doubt but we came out with good results and a few laughs along the way. ;-)<br>
<br><br>OK, so what is the fuss about? For those of you that could not make it to FOSS4G2009, or perhaps those that missed talks from another room due to conflict, there's a decent chance we have the talk you're looking for. PLEASE NOTE: We did not get enough volunteers to staff all 5 rooms every day.. Typically we recorded 3 or 4 rooms per day. Thus there are a number of talks we're missing. Despite this, there are still over a hundred talks recorded including the audio and what the speaker showed to the screen.<br>
<br>You can view the talks by visiting <a href="http://fosslc.org">http://fosslc.org</a>. We'll be embedding them and posting them there a few each day. You can also view them directly by visiting <a href="http://blip.tv">blip.tv</a> - and visiting the fosslc channel. We hope to find someone to help us update the event schedule page and include links to the videos from there as that's a convenient way to browse the talks/abstracts/speakers biographies.<br>
<br>The talks are licensed under the creative commons share alike + attribution license. Thus you can embed them in any web site. We encourage you to do so.<br><br>FOSSLC 3 conferences simultaneously that week and thus there were a lot of emails and logistics to worry about. For any speakers that did not wish their talk to be posted, and it slipped through the cracks and is posted - please contact me personally at aross at fosslc dot org and I will remove it immediately. For speakers that did wish their talk to be recorded and available and have not yet completed the release form, please do so as soon as possible. The release form is available online here: <a href="http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/uploads/fosslc_release_form_v5.2.pdf">http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/uploads/fosslc_release_form_v5.2.pdf</a><br>
<br>Last, we humbly ask your support to allow FOSSLC to keep doing what it does and making great open source content available on demand and support open source communities. For those that enjoy the videos, please consider donating $10 or more to FOSSLC. FOSSLC is an incorporated non-profit run by volunteers and thus all proceeds go directly to recording events, subsidizing events in developing areas, covering bandwidth and infrastructure costs, creating internships to develop open source code, and other activities benefiting the open source community. Even if you registered and attended the conference, you can view talks you missed so please consider donating. Thank you kindly in advance.<br>
<br>If you are interested in collaborating with FOSSLC on an event or recording an open source event in your area, please feel free to contact events at fosslc dot org.<br><br>Thank you,<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Andrew<br>