Yeah, while it would be nice to have the raw video I think you may have a wrong idea here. HDV video has about 10GB per hour. 8 parallel sessions 4.5h per day per session 3 days (last day a bit shorter)
With that I get about one TB of raw video data. Good luck uploading that to an FTP server...
Also, getting the data off of various cams takes a lot of time. I don't see how they could have done it in time to hand it to participants. Daniel
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
Sharing videos are so important. This is what I suggest.
At the end of the wikimania, all videos shot (even if up to 15+ Gig) should be available for any attendee to copy onto their external hard drive or personal computer to take along to his/her originating country. At their home countries, they can share those videos directly also with their wikimedian friends who couldn't make it to the event.
Like myself, I could have gotten the videos easily from Sandister, which will be less costly, convenient, and faster to get instead of downloading or watching online.
I don't know of data costs in other parts of the world, but from where I am, downloading/watching online videos really cost. Plus, the down streaming speed isn't good.
Summary: Make all recorded videos available at the end of the event for anyone interested to copy (perhaps in an intranet) before person returns to their countries. Sharing of the videos should be decentralized.
rexford
On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, Michael Peel wrote:
Hi Deryck,
It's great to hear that the parallel sessions were recorded. :-) As a suggestion: those that are asking for these videos might also be willing to help edit and upload those videos to Commons. Would you be willing to share the raw recordings with interested individuals so that they could do so?
Thanks, Mike (who is not volunteering edit video recordings here! Although I can provide some FTP storage for video files if that would be useful.)
On 28 Aug 2013, at 22:08, Deryck Chan deryckchan@gmail.com wrote:
All the sessions held in the Jockey Club Auditorium are still available on livestream: http://new.livestream.com/socreclive/wikimania
The other sessions have been recorded but will take some time to be uploaded. (Expect this to take a few months based on past experience - we only have volunteers!)
On 28 August 2013 18:18, Quiddity pandiculation@gmail.com wrote: Nkansah Rexford wrote: Please, can I get a link to watch some of the WMHK videos online? Or they're not yet out?
rex
I too would love to see the videos. Is there any news on where they're at? The people who couldn't attend Wikimania, and the people who were attending other sessions in the same timeslot, would all benefit so very much!
The schedule page could be an awesome Table of Contents, but currently it leads to a lot of "teasers"... https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule
Also Slides - Much thanks to those of you who've added your slides! If you haven't yet, please do so. If they're uploaded elsewhere, please also add them to commons (for future preservation, in case prezi etc disappear), and group them in
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2013_presentation_slid...
Thanks! Quiddity
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