On Wed, 08 May 2013 14:00:09 -0400 Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
> On 5/8/13 1:12 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > Andrei: Roughly how big are the original video files you're > > uploading? > > The keynote is some 600+ MB. > About how many videos total will there be? If it gets too big, I could even just transcode them myself. > > If you didn't want to setup/seed the torrents yourself, and I > > had access to them and they weren't too huge (I can manage a > > combined total of up to a few gigabytes), then I'd be happy > > setup/seed torrents of the original video files so people don't > > have to wait for them to get uploaded to and transcoded by > > dailymotion/youtube/whatever, just so I can grab them from there > > and torrent what might end up being a goofy flv file that not > > everyone will be able to play anyway. > > Let's get to downloading once we have the videos and slides up and > working. > Fair enough. > BTW what's a good site for sharing slides? > Any plain old HTTP server. dlang.org, dconf.org, or even github since you can easily direct link to the actual files (unless they've changed that, but I don't think so). PDFs are small. I can mirror them on my server too if you wanted to email them to me (user: nick1 domain: semitwist.com), or I can wait until they're all on slideshare and grab them myself - I signed up for a dummy account (Yay mailinator!! :) ). Slideshare doesn't seem to be too bad as an option for some people (it beats the hell out of google docs), I just wouldn't stick *exclusively* to online-viewer services, especially ones that require either registration or high-end browser technologies just for a trivial <a href="...">...</a> download link.