In my opinion (and in my position as the responsible for the follow-up for the Wikimedia Conference), we invest and spend a lot of money for the Wikimania each year. Despite of having a relatively broad attendance, the sustainability of Wikimania is doubtful, as there is no clear documentation standard and nobody is committed to track what happened actually at Wikimania itself and afterwards.
Consistent video recoding, despite being expensive, could be a way to improve that. But it has to be done in a good way. That means, 3-4 weeks after the conference videos must be published (at the latest), relevant session recordings must be shared directly with certain target groups (e.g. a Communication session with the ComCom list). And of course, the video must be uploaded on Commons (not on Youtube), so they easier to integrate on wiki pages.
If those standards are met, much more people could actually benefit from the Wikimania, even when they not attended it. E.g., even now videos of interesting and insightful talks of the German internet conference Re:publica are shared in social networks. In the future, that could be also possible for Wikimania talks.
Best Cornelius
On 18 July 2015 at 02:30, Victor Grigas vgrigas@wikimedia.org wrote:
I like Pine's suggestion.
Audio is much cheaper (still not free for high quality) and easier than video AND 16 bit .WAV is now a free format.
The only consideration is that presentations often involve visual materials.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
If we could get just audio recordings plus slides and any written materials, I think that would be almost as good as video in most cases, at far less cost and complexity.
Cheers, Pine
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