I suspect that the problem becomes somewhat more tractible as the importance of maintaining control over the recordings recedes. While the actual recording itself would still require hardware and at least one person to man a microphone / camera, hosting the resulting files via one of the online vid services could externalize that cost. To the degree that slides are critical for understanding, it also seems tractible to set up a screencast recorder - tied to live audio - during each panel. This would require some expertise, and doubtlessly some experimentation, but again seems quite tractible. Just a thought. Ken Cousins, PhD Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda Department of Government and Politics University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/kcousins http://augmentation.blogspot.com "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein
elw@stderr.org 06/26/07 3:05 PM >>>
usual annual question: will there be audio/video recordings at an Internet Research conference? usual annual response: 'no' usually phrased as 'the conference group/exec will discuss it', which usually means 'how much will it cost?', which resolves into, 'well, yes it can be done, but only if you donate a large sum of money, and or do it yourself', which usually resolves into 'no, it will not happen.'
folks who're interested in videoing IR should spend a couple of hours reading the blogs of the folks who have been doing the video of the Debconf series of conferences. [starting point - http://layer-acht.org/slides/20070122_debian-meetings-archive_SLUG.pdf ] they've invested SERIOUS time, hardware, and resources into making it work. it is a *hard* problem - completely nontrivial. I like video as much as the next person - probably more - but this would be a huge committment.
Personally, I'm against recording any session other than keynotes. I
think photographs, blogging, and a back-channel are great additions, but public recording of session stifles the communal atmosphere where people can be frank and collegial.
Pretty much on-board with what jeremy just said. The backchannel is particularly useful, IMHO.... --e _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/