Seriously, while we have great speakers, I'm not sure all of us are
confident enough for that kind of an outreach, nor would I feel that the
average Wikimania speaker gives enough of a good impression to the average
website visitor.
Ok, Video makes your embarrassing talk somewhat permanent. I grant you
that. Although we could always allow for talks to be pulled if the speakers
are unhappy.
But..
* You are less embarrassed to give a crappy talk infront of a live audience
than infront of an anonymous youtube viewer?
* You think it is ok to waste the time of people who travelled thousands of
miles to this conference with a crappy talk (the crappyness of which you
apparently know in advance), but it would be too much of a burden on
someone who spent the effort of a mere mouseclick to view your talk to
click once more to close the video?! ;-)
I do see the point about the "average website visitor". We should probably
discuss the mode of announcement a bit more. At least we may want to point
out that some of the streamed sessions are or arather technical nature
(technical not necessary meaning "development" but also copyright geekery
and acronym fests like "GLAM" and such).
Hmmm....