On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 06:34:26PM -0700, John Todd wrote: > I did receive one objection so far to the fifth track because of the > fear of missing a good talk in the other four tracks. However, I'm > not sure how we overcome that problem if we don't add the track, as > we would have to dump 11 talks if we didn't have that additional room > for speakers, meaning that the results would be identical: some good > talks would not be able to be seen.
In fact, no, John, it's worse: if you schedule the 5th track, *some* percentage of the attendees may find a conflict, and have to miss a presentation. If you *don't* schedule the 5th track, *100%* of the attendees will not see any of those 11 speakers. > The suggestion by you and others of creating videos of the talks is a > good one, and we had already started the discovery process of > determining cost for doing just that. If we determine that it is > within the budget, our goal would be to make the videos available to > conference attendees as soon as possible after the talks are over to > allow participants to see the talks that they had missed due to > scheduling. This decision and arrangement is still pending, but > we're hoping that we can do this to address the concerns of > overlapping tracks. More on this hopefully soon. I would suspect > that most (but possibly not all) of the videos would be available > only to attendees if such a videography can be arranged. If your agreements with the speakers permit, you should probably not restrict sales to registered attendees; as I noted before, the reports I hear from conference arrangers seems to suggest that the videos won't cannibalize the show; hell, NANOG streams them, *and* gives the videos away for free... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
