On 12-10-23, at 03:59 , 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 > We are not or at any rate I am not discussing "youtube videos". We are or I am discussing videoconferencing. One is static, the other is not; one provides for direct query and interaction, the other does not. I dislike rhetorical posturing. I do not engage in it. Louis > 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. >> >> -- >> Steve Holden [email protected], Holden Web, LLC http://holdenweb.com/ >> Python classes (and much more) through the web http://oreillyschool.com/ >> Conferences and technical event management at http://theopenbastion.com/ >> Next: Helping with ApacheCon EU (community edition) http://apachecon.eu/ >> >> >> > > > > -- > http://www.grobmeier.de > https://www.timeandbill.de
