On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:04 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Yes! if we can set up a system for media upload *before* the next conference to try and address this issue, which does come up every year, that would be fantastic.
Copying wikitech :) The problem: how and where should we annually upload video and slides from ~100 conference presentations, keeping them freely & easily accessible and the metadata (such as links to papers, submission pages, wikipages of notes, etc) intact?
You upload them to Commons. Of course this is a lot of data, so you'll probably want to rope in a WMF tech person to do a bulk import. I think this won't be a problem for WM2012 with a WMF tech person (Chad) on the organizing committee, and the conference being held half an hour from a datacenter. The latter is nice because it means the WM12 people can put the presentation videos on a data carrier (flash drive, DVDs, external HD, whatever), and transport that data carrier to the datacenter very easily, where it can be hooked up directly to the servers. For the WM11 videos, we need the Haifa people to either upload everything to another location (I think they were gonna upload stuff to the Internet Archive) so we can download them from there, or ship a data carrier to a datacenter (Washington, Tampa or Amsterdam) somehow.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
P.S.: CCing Phoebe because my post to foundation-l will bounce since I'm not subscribed.