Re: agenda for the EPICS users' meeting

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir@imca-cat.org>]

On 10/1/13 8:54 AM, Dalesio, Leo wrote:
> I hadn't considered it. All of the presentations are always posted -
> but without the text that is frequently useless.

Hi, Bob.

When you say, "text," I assume you mean the audio--what the speaker
said.  I agree.  To me slides should be a visual aid that help the
speaker communicate whatever they are presenting.  When used in this
way, having the slides without the talk audio (and video) is just
getting a hint at the content of the talk.

> Hamid Shoaee is organizing the meeting and it is at the conference
> hotel. I know nothing of the equipment there.  We should have
> wireless. Is there some kind of conferencing that allows webcast for
> free?

I'm not sure, but I think sometimes conferences don't want to do live
streaming to encourage people to attend in person.  But some organizers
do record the talks, and later they post videos of them so that people
who did not attend can still see the talks.

As an example, here's the YouTube channel for EuroBSDcon where they post
videos of past talks:

  http://www.youtube.com/user/EuroBSDcon

Obvious downsides are that someone has to actually record the talks and
edit the video.  That's a lot of work.  One nice video model is to have
a video of the speaker, and then at appropriate locations in the video
cut to stills of the relevant slide with the audio continuing.  Less
work would be to just record the video and provide the slides separately
and expect the viewer to just figure out what slide the speaker is
talking about.

Obvious upsides are that people who did not attend can see the talks and
learn from them--in some cases even years later.

Lewis