online simulcast of BLU meetings

[John Abreau]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 09:47 -0500, Dwight E Chadbourne wrote:

> "I also think that would possibly be a violation of our agreement with
> NEDV."
> 
> Is this a show stopper?  Do we know for sure?
> 
> Sounds like a good learning experience.  Let me know if I can help. 
> Thanks.

We wouldn't be able to host the videos on the BLU servers, but I see 
no reason why we couldn't host them on something like YouTube. We could 
also make DVD-quality images available on the Installfest server so 
people attending our Installfests could burn their own DVDs. 

I started videotaping our meetings back in 2000, with the idea of 
having the raw footage available for when the Linux video editing 
tools finally mature. I kept it up for a couple years until one of 
our speakers asked us not to record his presentation. After that I 
never really got back into it. 

Also, it didn't occur to me until later to ask for signed releases 
from the presenters, so the footage would be unusable anyway until 
I tracked down whoever I needed releases from for each meeting. 

As long as we can satisfy the liability issues, I see no reason not 
to try this. Josh sounded willing to allow it for his talk in January. 

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