[Air-l] Why not make Aoir 5.0 "Virtual conference"?

[Bernie Hogan]

If you all would be interested in interactive presentations, with chat
rooms, power point and streaming video, feel free to check out the open
source videocasting suite developed at UofT - ePresence. (www.epresence.tv)

I have been working with the system for the past two years and quite enjoy
it. Don't know about how difficult it would be to cast and archive an entire
conference, I have edited the archives for the Knowledge Media Design
Institute's open source conference in may (
http://www.epresence.tv/website_archived.aspx?dir=May~9-11,~2004:~Open~Sourc
e~and~Free~Software:~Concepts,~Controversies~and~Solutions ) and it was a
hell of a lot of work - with about 30 hours of streaming presentations and Q
& A. 

It would be nice for key notes etc... At the OS conference we would take
questions from the virtual audience through a mic set up near the front and
a live moderator. 

Jeremy, I think you might be the person to talk to Peter Wolf
(wolfpet at kmdi.utoronto.ca) about the costs and time involved in setting up a
system. Labor and infrastructure may cost but the program itself is free
(you'll need to but a helix licence to stream Real Player - ePresence
streams in mp4 though, and I'm not sure the cost of Windows Media).

Take Care,
BERNiE

Bernie Hogan
Ph.D. Student 
Department of Sociology
[NetLab, Knowledge Media Design Institute]
University of Toronto
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