On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Bakki Kudva wrote:
> > If I understand correctly the handouts and possible audio/video records
> > belong to the host of the conference. Therefore you should talk to them
> > about this issue. It can be ORA, Camelot or any other conference
> > organizer.
>
> In that case they would have little incentive to release this material as
> they are in the business of conducting training and tutorials.
That's right
> > Another possibility is to organize a training session which will be hosted
> > by you for example and then you will be able to make the recording with
> > the only permission of the speakers.
> >
> > Of course if your intention is to make money by selling the recordings,
> > you will have to pay a certain percentage to the "artists".
>
> This is not my line of business and so I wasn't thinking of this as a
> for-profit venture. It was more of a community service project in my mind.
> However a nominal charge to recover production costs, (specially if CD-ROMs
> are pressed) speaker's fees etc might be ok. The whole point was to make a
> tutorial available to "the rest of us" and promote further use of mod_perl.
> I wasn't personally planning on profiting from this other than the learning
> experience at the 'feet of the gurus' :)
I've assumed that you didn't want to make a profit, I just said 'if...' :)
> > BTW, I think that if you are serious about doing this project, I believe
> > that the only way to do that is in the video format. It's hard to imagine
> > the slide and see where the speaker points to with his laser on the audio
> > recording. Audio format is fine for keynotes, but not for tutorials.
>
> I used to feel the same way until I saw the SUN webcasts and Bruce Eckel's
> "Thinking in Java" course. The slides/audio presentation works very well
> over low bandwidth connections and would be cheaper to setup than a
> streaming video server. Did you check out the links I had in my original
> post? Just imaging that you are in a presentation in a darkened room where
> you can't see the speaker :-)
Well, I've just installed the G2 Player and tried it. Yes it's quite good.
May be you are right and it would work. So are you going to give it a
whirl?
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