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Lately, work has been keeping me from attending TriLUG's monthly meetings. Some of the presentations, like the recent MythTV and the VoIP I have really
wanted to attend, but have been unable. I want to spur the interest in having
our meetings archived... for posterity sake, for the community at large and for
members who can't make the meetings. I'm not sure what method the archive
should be done, but I have some suggested ideas. How to make it all come
together and have the archives stored in the members area of our website is to
be seen!
Any thoughts on this? Thanks!
Or, we could make the material in the meetings a perk for those members who show up?
Now, that might sound like a flip answer, but step back and consider it for a bit. TriLUGs has a limited amount of resources. We tend to expend those resources arranging good speakers and good topics for our monthly meetings. So far, those resources haven't included recording an event, except in one case, and even in that case, the editing still hasn't been done (mainly because it's been held up by missing audio... Mark, got that audio track converted to MP3 yet?). So, I think it's safe to say that currently we don't have the resources to do something like what you're suggesting. If someone, however, wants to take the initiative and put something like this together, including everything you need to do to get things in a format that can be distributed, I don't think anyone would oppose it. You'd need to work out beforehand with the individual speakers and get their ok, but that's just part of what needs to be done.
Alternatively, we do generally ask our presenters if they will at the very least make their slides and notes available on the net, but you can only convey so much that way.
So, David, I think you're going to have to make a choice. If you want this to happen, you're either going to have to do it yourself, or convince someone else to. If it works out, great! Good luck.
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