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

[Josep Vives - Comité Técnico II Congreso OCS]

In my opinion video is not necessari.

In scientific context the important is "the text". All others is optyonally.
Whith interaction ontime (IM) (coordination) and off time (forums+docs)
(discussions) + Intranet is enouthg.

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Nancy Baym va dir:
> Many people have posted links to evidence that virtual conferences  can
> happen. How about telling us how much it cost to do them, how  many
> people were actively involved in doing the work that made them  happen,
> and how many people in the end took advantage of their being  online to
> access them? What was the cost per virtual attendee and how  was that
> cost covered?
>
> At the very least, in order for it to happen you have to have:
>
> Cameras and people to film all day in every room (or selected
> sessions if one scales down). We run 9 simultaneous sessions over  three
> days. So we are talking about either hiring about 30 days worth  of
> professional camera men or finding 30 days worth of volunteers to  man
> the cameras. And someone is going to provide us those 9 cameras  and all
> the film, right? If we had to pay just for this alone it
> would dramatically increase conference registration costs. And we'd
> then be hearing complaints about how we were disenfranchising
> potential attendees by making it too expensive.
>
> Or else we charge to access it. Which requires password and
> registration systems. Who is going to create and manage that?
>
> Someone to get all that material online. Again, this is something  real
> people have to actually manage. Who is volunteering?
>
> The technological and labor resources to stream or store it. Will you
> be doing that service for us?
>
> As Jeremy has said repeatedly, if this is something you REALLY think
> AoIR should do then by all means, step up to provide the money to pay
> for it, and the labor to enact it. If you can't get it together in  time
> for Chicago, take the long view and start planning now for how  to do it
> in future years.
>
> We are MEMBER driven. That does not mean that the members state what
> they want and a small group of volunteers spends enormous amounts of
> time to serve them. It means that when members want something to
> happen, those members have to make it happen and the executive
> committee will do our best to facilitate their efforts.
>
> Please remember that not only is AoIR an all-volunteer association,  it
> is a SMALL volunteer association. As President (a position for  which I
> get no reduction in my real job duties and no compensation),  my top
> concern is making sure that the things we can do are done as  well as we
> can do them without bankrupting the association. There are  many things
> we'd love to do that we can not afford to do either
> financially or in terms of labor.
>
> I agree that the goal of having a virtual version of our event to
> accompany the face-to-face version is a good one. However, we cannot  do
> it unless people who are not already among those few spending many
> hours every week to do the work for this association, recruit the
> people and funding it takes to make it happen.
>
> Nancy
>
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