Re: Remote Access to IBM i Conferences (was IBM i DevCon)

[Glenn Hopwood <ghopwood.list@xxxxxxxxx>]

What about streaming a recording? If the fee was reasonable I'd pay to 
see them.

If you waited a period of time after the session, you might be able to 
get the speakers to do a live chat session while streaming the 
recording, that way you wouldn't completely lose the 'give and take'.

Glenn

On 8/17/2011 11:34 AM, Jon Paris wrote:
> Speaking as one of the organizers of the RPG&  DB2 Summit, we would love to do this - but the costs to-date are prohibitive.
>
> Lighting, video and sound equipment and staff - for four rooms in our case, high-speed data links ... And if you think the $12 a day they charge for internet access in some hotels is high then "you ain't seen nothin' yet" - think a minimum of $150 per-day per-room and that is for a connection marginally better than you'd get in your room. Nowhere near good enough to stream video. Think $500+ per room per day for something that could handle streaming. All this for what will in practice be a less than 100% reliable feed that will make people really mad when it fails as well as annoying the attendees who are there while tech issues are resolved.
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> In practice I think the only way to make it work is the kind of on-line event that Penton run - or a single track event perhaps set up in a professional TV studio with some live attendees but primarily focussed on the remote attendees.
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> COMMON are doing a few streamed sessions I think - but they don't have to pay speakers etc. and already have to pay to have a full AV crew on-site for other reasons, so their economic model is very different.
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> If anyone has any practical ideas on how to make this kind of thing work I'd love to hear them - but right now we have no plans to offer this.
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> On Aug 17, 2011, at 9:07 AM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > Too bad either of both of these can't also be setup to allow for
> > distance education. Being there would be a better experience by far but
> > for those of us who have no travel budget we could still stay current.
> Jon Paris
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