Just an idea - how about if somebody from the German AOO team would be
co-presenting and does the driver of the presentation? Is that
feasible or wouldn't there be any reason in such a model?

Cheers
Daniel

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Christian Grobmeier
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Honestly (and sorry to say), if I attend a conference and pay the full
> price, I would be more than disappointed if the presenter is not in
> the same room as me. I can watch youtube videos without wasting my
> money. I am not the conference expert, but I doubt there are (many)
> other conferences using remote presentations.
>
> Cheers
> Christian
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Steve Holden <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Andrea:
>>
>> Apparently we don't have any guarantees on quality of service, so we are 
>> suggesting that speakers who wish to try this route should prepare a video 
>> for use if the remote presentation doesn't work out.
>>
>> I presume that no special room set-up will be needed for these talks except 
>> audio connection to the computer that's used to display the call?
>>
>> regards
>>  Steve
>>
>> On Oct 23, 2012, at 8:06 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>>
>>> As discussed on the ooo-dev list 
>>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/ we have several 
>>> speakers from China (all in the OpenOffice track, it seems) who are facing 
>>> delays in getting a visa to Germany for ApacheCon.
>>>
>>> A suggestion from Louis Suárez-Potts is to allow teleconferencing: speakers 
>>> who cannot be physically in Germany would still be able to give their 
>>> presentation as an online seminar.
>>>
>>> Would this be possible with the current infrastructure in Sinsheim?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>  Andrea.
>>
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