On 2/6/07, Jeremy White jwhite@winehq.org wrote:
Wasn't [your] original idea to have 2 (or more?) official Wineconf sites, linked by video conferencing equipment?
That does have challenges; time zone sync is a hard one, for starters. Further, you lose much of the value of the plain old socializing we do (i.e. they don't have video conferencing service in the pubs :-/).
But if it lets a bunch of people get together who wouldn't have otherwise, I don't see how it could be bad.
Well, let me make two concrete proposals:
All the presentations would take place in Amsterdam, but would be available remotely in two ways: presentation slides up ahead of time on the wineconf site, and videotaped talks on YouTube for viewing a couple hours later. Hopefully the talks in Amsterdam would be available for viewing the next day on YouTube. Taping, editing, and uploading the talks would be a challenge, you would want one person doing the recording, and a second person doing the editing and uploading (presumably during the next talk.) It'd be quite a trick if it worked. (I tried taping the 2006 talks, and both my camerawork and my audio were lousy; maybe I could practice on some local events to refine my technique.)
Alternately, the meeting could be held at the Amsterdam office of a company with good videoconference gear and relayed to that company's Los Angeles office; that would be easier (no video editing or uploading) but harder (not sure my company can offer its Amsterdam office) and wouldn't make the presentations as available to folks who can't travel.
Or we could do live streaming audio or video, but that's really hard, and I'd rather not try. - Dan