Charlie, I think you miss interpreted what I was saying with point 1. I think using Breeze for remote or recorded presentations is great, and this has been done many times. Its the recording of a local presentation that I think would be the trouble, quite a task was referring to recording a local presentation. Another issue is that the locations we have used (Maybe its Brisbane?), don't seem to have fast and reliable internet access. So we have had a few cfug's where online presentations were tried, but have not been successful. In one case I have given a presentation with 2 minutes notice in other cases we have used recorded presentations (on CD) previously recorded using screen capture software.
With point 2. what I was saying, is how is one to remotely sit in on a CFUG presentation if the presentation is pre-recorded? Lastly, I think Breeze is great, and I think we intend to continue using it as much as possible, just not sure about the remote attendee's part. Cheers Gareth. Charlie Arehart wrote: > Well, there are multiple things being discussed there. > > I'm not sure what will be "quite a task". If you mean the UGTV site, it's > already up and running and has over 20 presentations already online. If you > mean your last point, I'll get to that in a moment. > > To your point 1, sure. A group can't well use Breeze for a remote visitor or > remote attendees, nor can they record using it, if they don't have net > access. That's a given. Still, my experience in speaking at hundreds of user > groups meetings over the years suggests that it's as often available as not > (and likely more available now than in the past). But, sure, not everyone > will be able to leverage Breeze "live". > > As for your point 2, I'm not sure what you mean. Are you referring to the > prospect of using Breeze presentations in a user group setting? Or watching > them on your own? If your point is that a recorded presentation lacks some > for the give and take that often takes place before/after a presentation, > again, that may be so. Still, don't let "better" be the enemy of "good > enough". :-) If you can see a recorded presentation on a topic that you > might not otherwise get someone to present on, that's got to be better than > nothing. > > As for organizing "a separate online event for those who are unable to > attend cfug's", well, I wasn't making any call for that myself, but sure, if > it works for you or others, it may be worth a try. My goal was simply to > help those in a current group or in none at all. > > /charlie > http://www.carehart.org/blog/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Gareth Edwards > Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 5:35 PM > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Remotely attending? Recording the talk? (was RE: > [cfaussie] REMINDER: CFUG QLD 6:30 pm, Tuesday, October 3 2006) > > > Hi Charlie, > > I think organising something like this may be quite a task. Couple of things > that spring to mind. > > 1) Location of the event may not be able to provide internet access to > private laptops used for presentations. > 2) A lot of the time presentations used are pre-recorded, normally with some > additional information at the end or during the presentation. > > Having said that, maybe I could organise a separate online event for those > who are unable to attend cfug's. Only if I get enough interest. > > Cheers > Gareth. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
