Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-31 Thread Craig Ringer
On 22/03/2011 7:47 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote: Dne 21.3.2011 20:23, Vick Khera napsal(a): On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Aljoša Mohorović aljosa.mohoro...@gmail.com wrote: postgres is losing a lot of promotional and educational materials, why is this happening? Someone has to do lots of work

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 11:37 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: Many people have low-end SLR or high-end fixed cameras that're really good video cameras, they just don't know it. Many of them will have tripods, and a basic tripod for fixed indoor use is cheap anyway. Given that, I wouldn't think

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-31 Thread Craig Ringer
On 1/04/2011 12:38 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 11:37 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: Many people have low-end SLR or high-end fixed cameras that're really good video cameras, they just don't know it. Many of them will have tripods, and a basic tripod for fixed indoor use is

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-22 Thread tv
On 03/21/11 5:04 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: So just put there a tripod, a reasonable HD cam for $300 and you'll get a decent video of the session. you definitely want a sound patch from a lapel mic or the room PA, and not be using on-camera sound. Yes, that's definitely true. We're using a

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:09:35PM +0100, Aljoša Mohorović wrote: never said that it's not so just that i'm surprised/disappointed that it's so low priority. If you are disappointed that something has been made a low priority by someone else, then perhaps you should consider making it a high

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:21:46 -0500, Jon Nelson jnelson+pg...@jamponi.net wrote: ts all quite time consuming. Somebody ought to talk to the folks that run PyCon - the videos there are excellent and typically available within hours or less. Perhaps they have some useful insight or advice?

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-22 Thread Susan Cassidy
Personally, I vastly prefer written information to video. I can read far faster than someone can read/explain something to me. Plus, it is easier to refer back to. Susan -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/22/11 12:29 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: Personally, I vastly prefer written information to video. I can read far faster than someone can read/explain something to me. Plus, it is easier to refer back to. this++ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-22 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 22/03/2011 19:29, Susan Cassidy wrote: Personally, I vastly prefer written information to video. I can read far faster than someone can read/explain something to me. Plus, it is easier to refer back to. +100 However, I fully appreciate that if it's difficult to find the (wo)manpower to

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-22 Thread Tomas Vondra
Dne 22.3.2011 20:29, Susan Cassidy napsal(a): Personally, I vastly prefer written information to video. I can read far faster than someone can read/explain something to me. Plus, it is easier to refer back to. Susan 100% true. But it's also true that slides (and that's all we have

[GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-21 Thread Aljoša Mohorović
am i the only one thinking that postgres is seriously lacking recordings from conferences? when i look at talks schedule from some postgres conference i always wonder why nobody records talks? i've heard arguments before, for other projects/conferences, that authors/companies don't allow

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-21 Thread Vick Khera
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Aljoša Mohorović aljosa.mohoro...@gmail.com wrote: postgres is losing a lot of promotional and educational materials, why is this happening? Someone has to do lots of work to tape the talks, get proper permissions from the presenters, and then host the videos.

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-21 Thread Aljoša Mohorović
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Vick Khera vi...@khera.org wrote: Someone has to do lots of work to tape the talks, get proper permissions from the presenters, and then host the videos.  Often this would land on the shoulders of the conference organizers, who are already working hard just to

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-21 Thread David Fetter
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:09:35PM +0100, Aljoša Mohorović wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Vick Khera vi...@khera.org wrote: Someone has to do lots of work to tape the talks, get proper permissions from the presenters, and then host the videos.  Often this would land on the

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-21 Thread Aljoša Mohorović
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:45 PM, David Fetter da...@fetter.org wrote: Who proposes, volunteers!  How are you going to help? being on a different continent and unable to attend doesn't actually enable me to do something. my post doesn't try to undermine actual work being done by people on

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-21 Thread David Fetter
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:55:20PM +0100, Aljoša Mohorović wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:45 PM, David Fetter da...@fetter.org wrote: Who proposes, volunteers!  How are you going to help? being on a different continent and unable to attend doesn't actually enable me to do something. Not

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-21 Thread Aljoša Mohorović
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:20 AM, David Fetter da...@fetter.org wrote: Not so, by a long shot.  If this is actually important to you, there are plenty of ways you could help, not least by funding the effort. [...] What you really, really need to stop doing is proposing that others do an

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-21 Thread Tomas Vondra
Dne 21.3.2011 20:23, Vick Khera napsal(a): On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Aljoša Mohorović aljosa.mohoro...@gmail.com wrote: postgres is losing a lot of promotional and educational materials, why is this happening? Someone has to do lots of work to tape the talks, get proper permissions

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-21 Thread Tomas Vondra
Dne 21.3.2011 21:45, David Fetter napsal(a): Who proposes, volunteers! How are you going to help? Well, if this is the only problem then I happily volunteer to take care of this for pgday 2011. regards Tomas -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-21 Thread Tomas Vondra
Dne 22.3.2011 00:20, David Fetter napsal(a): On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:55:20PM +0100, Aljoša Mohorović wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:45 PM, David Fetter da...@fetter.org wrote: Who proposes, volunteers! How are you going to help? being on a different continent and unable to attend

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-21 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/21/11 5:04 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: So just put there a tripod, a reasonable HD cam for $300 and you'll get a decent video of the session. you definitely want a sound patch from a lapel mic or the room PA, and not be using on-camera sound. and probably two cameras, one aimed at the

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-21 Thread Jon Nelson
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:16 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 03/21/11 5:04 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: So just put there a tripod, a reasonable HD cam for $300 and you'll get a decent video of the session. you definitely want a sound patch from a lapel mic or the room PA, and