[CREATE] Bad news from Amsterdam

[Oleksandr Moskalenko]

* Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> [2008-09-30 19:43:50 +0200]:

> 2008/9/30 adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net>:
> >
> > keen to host an Amsterdam event and
> > take care of the venue and logistics.
> 
> Andy seems to be putting together a proposal to host - finding a venue
> and local sponsors and so on. I guess you should do the same, as
> should anyone else serious about organising LGM4, and post a finalised
> proposal to this list, and I guess the influential members of the
> community will form a consensus in some way.
> 
> > link the two via video streaming
> 
> Seems unlikely to be compelling to me, and risky that it wouldn't work
> technically, but I have no experience with this (as an administrator
> of live video streaming with free software, or as attending a
> conference that was linked like that) I suppose it could work.

This year's Debian DebConf had a lot of success combining video streaming and
concurrent IRC discussions. Here is a quote from yesterday's DPL's email to
debian-devel-announce:

"However, the video team did an amazing job this year [3] - a combination of
live streams of all the talks plus volunteers forwarding questions from IRC
meant that people could stay involved despite the distance.
[3]  http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8/Videoteam/Thanks "

There is more information at
http://www.news.software.coop/debconf-8-video-team-gives-excellent-service/42/
and http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8/Streams.

This is definitely an option worth considering for those of us who really can't
attend due to costs or other engagements.

Cheers,

Alex.