On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am hugely grateful that we have reliable streaming this year, thanks to a lot of volunteer effort. Perhaps we can defer the ideological nitpicking and just share that appreciation. I would be grateful even if it required a Windows-only plugin, which Flash is not.
Yes, I would like to express a huge thank you to all those involved with the streaming. I was particularly impressed that most talks had multiple camera set-ups and live cutting to keep it more visually engaging. It really made me feel a part of the conference and it's been an inspiring couple of days listening to people from all over the world that share one vision.
"Last year's system of encoding the videos to OGG overnight and uploading them to Commons the next afternoon was pretty awesome; unfortunately we won't be doing that this year, but the organization have told me (on wikimania-l) that they will obtain the OGGs from the video company on DVD(s), and I have asked them to mail that/those DVD(s) to our datacenter so I can import all videos to Commons when they arrive." - Roan Kattouw
Does this mean there will not be uploads of the talks for 2010? I watched all the streaming I could, but obviously one can only watch one stream at a time.
My dream scenario is that every talk is uploaded and linked to from the schedule page [1]
Also, a minor query but it's bugging me; the schedule for each day shows, in blue, "spotlight on posters" and "posters" are listed at the bottom of the schedule in yellow. I can't figure out why the term "posters" is used?
[1] http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule
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