[Foss4g2009] Volunteers needed to record FOSS4G for prosperity

[Cameron Shorter]

Sydney, Australia. 18 October 2009. http://2009.foss4g.org

Andrew Ross from FOSSLC and Ingres has offered the use of equipment and 
experience to film all the sessions at FOSS4G. Yes, you heard right, if 
we can find enough volunteers, all the FOSS4G presentations will be 
recorded and made available online for free through the FOSSLC website 
(http://fosslc.org). This includes the speaker talking and what ever 
they show on the screen. The videos will be licensed under the Creative 
Commons and embeddable in any web site.

The recordings will allow FOSS4G attendees to see talks they missed due 
to conflicts. It will bring the knowledge to people who could not afford 
to travel. It will allow the community to use the material as a 
reference library. It will also provide material for newcomers to assist 
their learning.

In order to do so, he needs approximately 8 volunteers to run the gear, 
and needs to borrow linux based computers (Fedora or Ubuntu based) 
temporarily. If you will be at the conference, and will be watching a 
sessions, why not help record the session for prosperity? If you can 
help out, please contact him at:

aross at fosslc dot org


    About the Free and Open Source Software Learning Centre

http://fosslc.org

The Free and Open Source Learning Centre (FOSSLC) is a non-profit 
organization run by volunteers from industry, academia, and community. 
It provides conferences, webcasts, online videos, and workshops teaching 
skills with open source software. FOSSLC is a vendor neutral and 
friendly place to learn about open source development, the business of 
open source, and meet people from the open source community. Read more 
about FOSSLC or follow FOSSLC on Twitter.


    About FOSS4G

http://2009.foss4g.org

FOSS4G is the international Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial 
conference, which comes to Sydney, Australia, 20-23 October 2009. FOSS4G 
offers presentations, workshops, demos, an install-fest, and a code 
sprint. It is presented by the world's best Developers, Policy Makers, 
Sponsors and Geospatial Professionals and includes the latest geospatial 
applications, standards, government programs, business processes and 
case studies. Topics include mobile platforms, location based 
applications, crowd sourcing, cloud computing, development, spatial 
standards, integration of cross-agency data, Spatial Data 
Infrastructures, Sensor Webs, Web Processing Services, Integration of 
Open Source and Proprietary Software and more.


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Cameron Shorter
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