On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:58:49 -0400, madodel wrote:
> Actually we have tried using volunteers to videotape the sessions and the
>result was worthless. I still have the videotapes in my office from the
>2000 event in Philly. We had the plenary sessions go out over realplayer
>in 1999 in Atlanta and almost no one could get Realplayer to work and the
>feed was slow and unreliable and you couldn't hear much of anything. And
>that was with professional equipment of the time. To do it right would
>require expensive equipment and people who know what they are doing to run
>it. There is no benefit to Warpstock for this unless someone pays for the
>equipment and provides the people to run it. Otherwise it is just a
>negative encouraging people to not attend. And even if we could do all
>that and do it well what is the benefit to the event?
Well the developers workshop in Biel managed it. Streamed over the web and an
IRC session watched by a couple of people to field questions. Seemed to work to
me, but then I was there :-) Did not seem to be that mutch in the way of kit -
I only noticed a webcam.
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