M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
On 2008-12-17 15:21, Michael Foord wrote:
Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
John Pinner wrote:
Hello,
This year PyCon USA has said that all talks will be recorded and if
you are not happy with this, don't submit a talk.
If we were to do the same it would save the talks organisers and
recording crew a *lot* of trouble. I mean a **lot**
Comments please.
John
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The only reasons I can think of not wanting to publicize the talk is
protecting intellectual property, preventing legal actions or being
ashamed of your performance :-) Except for the latter I think that it
is more out of commercial interest then anything else and in that case
it is, in my opinion, unfair to piggyback on an open conference like
EuroPython without contributing in a financial way to EuroPython.
So in short I agree, but exceptions should be possibly if this would
help us.
It is not making exceptions that provide the benefit... PyCon US at
least feels that there is no reason to accept a public talk where the
speaker refuses to allow it to be made public...
There's a difference between allowing someone else to publish your
talk or go public with it yourself.
There's also a difference in giving a talk to a live audience which
is over when its over or having your performance persist on the net
until eternity.
I agree.
I'm -1 on rejecting talks from people who want to keep control
over how they go live on the net or if at all.
The question is whether allowing people who are unwilling to let us
publish a recording is worth the hassle it causes - and I'm -1 on
allowing it as I see no benefit.
As a side benefit, I think this is more likely to persuade people to be
willing for recordings to be published than it is to dissuade people to
give talks. This is certainly the experience of PyCon US.
They have no prevision
for exceptions and therefore no need to check when preparing recordings
for release.
I think that's a wrong approach.
Besides: Recording and editing sessions is a lot of work and that work
is better spent on more useful activities, such as e.g. getting a
complete list of talk *slides* on the net.
There is benefit in both.
Michael
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http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/
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