On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 00:05 -0400, Dean Collins wrote: > The question is would people choose not to go if it was necessarily > available as a broadcast. > > You're thinking old school. > > > Dean >
I am thinking the convention was set up for money, I cant believe that the rate generates no profit. Not that profit is a bad thing, but anyone doing something for profit isnt going to stab themselves in the back to prevent that profit. There is added value to go in person, you get to have side conversations, do networking, get to see the slide shows (which can be done via a webpage) etc. But there is something better about being there in person. So I believe people would go, but maybe not as many, and there is a cost to providing it voip style, bandwidth, servers, etc. Of course if you really wanted to be clever you would have several nodes that people call into, which are all connected to the main server that is at the conroom hooked up to the microphone, etc. That way all the traffic to the main server is stable and relatively low, and the leaf nodes (other asterisk boxes) have the brunt of all the traffic. This way the hub server would not be flooded off ruining everything for everyone when 134091309451093 people try to connect to it. Adding the record functionality and muting participants would also mean that the hub server would be able to make audio files available after the lecture is over. The main server could run a shoutcast stream to be fed to mp3player() or something on the leafs (idealy you would want a proxy on the leafs so each leaf causes 1 and only 1 stream off the main hub. Could be a good marketing tool. Tout the final number of clients connected in such a distributed environment listening live. Show the power to skeptics. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378
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