[Air-l] audio/video at IR conferences

[Richard Smith]

As conference chair I hadn't considered recording the sessions,  
although the service is available - and is very good - in our  
facility. They can also stream live to the internet. I will get a  
quote per session and then we can determine who can/should pay. If  
anyone is from an organization that would like to pick this up as a  
potential sponsorship opportunity let me (smith at sfu.ca) know.

...r

On 26-Jun-07, at 12:49 PM, J Sternberg wrote:

> Indeed, audio/video of conferences is a huge commitment, easy to  
> request
> but difficult to provide. Just a few weeks ago, the Media Ecology
> Association was extremely fortunate that various sessions of the MEA's
> Eighth Annual Convention in Mexico City were available online in
> streaming audio/video, which some folks have recorded and posted on
> various sites, and which may eventually be available in archives or  
> DVD.
> For this convention, audio/video resources were only possible due  
> to the
> incredible efforts and hard work of the host, the Department of
> Communication at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México,
> which generously provided equipment and staff, and also raised
> substantial funding from big-name corporate sponsors. Without these
> major resources and financial support provided by our colleagues at  
> TEC,
> audio/video capabilities would have been impossible. Much easier said
> than done!
>
> Janet Sternberg, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor and Associate Chair
> Department of Communication and Media Studies
> Fordham University | Bronx, NY 10458-9993 USA
> Executive Secretary, Media Ecology Association
> http://www.media-ecology.org
>
>   elw at stderr.org wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>
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