On Feb 1, 2017 20:40, "Jon Kalb" <[email protected]> wrote:
tl;dr Do you want to have professional recording of C++Now sessions? I think this is really important. C++Now is an amazing conference, but it's difficult to showcase that without professional quality video. Even if a session is fantastic, it can get lost if a video is hard to hear or if it's impossible to see slides or a screen presentation. If someone is looking to attend a C++ conference and they are starting by comparing videos with CppCon or Meeting C++, I find it unlikely that they would be impressed by C++Now. That's really disappointing because C++Now is *clearly* the best C++ conference, and I can only imagine that not only might it deter attendees, but more importantly, it likely also deters speakers. Based solely on audio/video quality, do you really want a recording of your talk at C++Now to be a related video to a professional quality recording of someone else's talk at another conference? Realistically, this is something that a speaker probably considers, and that's totally understandable. Given that we tend to sell out each year, the perspective of potential speakers is probably most important. We could *certainly* use more session submissions every year. At this point, we get high enough quality submissions that we succeed with a relatively high acceptance rate, but it's hard to say just how long that can continue. We've lost some regular speakers over the years, and that's fine. We've been lucky enough to have some new, incredible speakers come in too. Still, let's make sure that the high quality speakers out there who have yet to attend have even more of a reason to in the future. If we wait to do this until it's more obviously a problem, then it will already be too late. I'm unbelievably grateful for all of the hard work that Marshall and the volunteers and everyone else who contributes to the recordings has done over the years. They've done a great job, but I think it's time to get professionals. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Boost Steering Committee" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
