[Foss4g2009] Videoing sessions at the conf

[Dave Patton]

On 2008/10/06 6:45 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Videoing everything costs in the order of $85K.
> During the bidding process I asked one of the SCEC people if we could do 
> our own videoing and they said that SCEC doesn't allow it. SCEC need to 
> control the quality of their conference package and don't want to have 
> poor quality videos floating around.

That is "SCEC marketing speak" for "we have you
in a corner, and are going to charge you whatever
we want". If those are their exact words, simply
go back to them and tell them we will arrange to
do our own videos, pay them nothing, and if they
think the quality is poor, then they can veto
the release of the videos. If they think the
quality is 'excellent', then they can buy the
rights to use the videos for $85K!

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