2008/5/27 Douglas Napoleone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > NOTE: PyCon US next year is going to move over to a similar system > where we require people to give the PSF a license to redistribute and > to put the talk materials under one of 3 Creative Commons licenses > (the choice part is still under discussion). This past year we > collected A/V for all talks and tutorials (with one minor gap). We > have not been able to get this video out to the public due to the > release forms. > > The problem is the video was collected w/o being split by talk and we > ran into a chicken-egg problem. Only a few people could do the most > difficult job of tagging/splitting the AV. This bottleneck means we > either need to hire consultants and have them sign their own legalese > paperwork, or have the people who are already familiar with the > materials do the work in their spare time. We are going with the > latter, and then will get the video out to the community to clean up > and complete the processing on. Just having one talk which needs to be > pulled out from the rest causes a huge amount of work. (NOTE: we are > talking about 80GB files which get broken down into 3GB files for a > 30min talk so distrobution will have other issues as well lest > re-encoding becomes a bottleneck.)
At Pycon Italy we had the same problem last year ( and this year ). We have a couple of organizer that do this work spending a looooooot of time editing it. Hiring consultants is expensive but, maybe, a faster way to release the material but as a non-profit we prerered to spend money on other things.. > > > There was much discussion about this and we decided the talks we would > loose out on would open up more room for those we would normally have > to decline (especially as we are now declining 70% of our received > proposals). > > If you are planning on doing AV, you need to plan well in advance and > have a post processing plan set in place. We have learned this the > hard way. Just having volunteers record the video in an adhock manner > creates exponentially more work in the end. > > So +1 for enforcing a CC license and have the submission form double > as a release form. The alternative ends up robbing the community of > valuable materials, and generating problems on the AV end. I do agree with John about the secret stuff point. > > I originally wanted a checkbox on the registration form to say whether or > not > > people wanted their talks (normal or lightning talks - just imagine the > > paperwork involved with the latter) to be recorded and distributed, but > in > > the end this was seen as too intrusive (or out of context). > > Also it might make people think that they needn't go to the conference > as they'll be able to see the recordings anyway. > Yes.. but at the same time it's a great resource for the comunity.... For videos distribution we used torrents for the last year.. to avoid brokenlinks and other issues... But (IMHO) it was not a great choice. Probably we'll change for this year talk.. By the way.. my opinion is +1 on CC license
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