Rob, Matt, Michael,
I’m in complete agreement that from an interactivity point of view, C++Now sessions are a different experience from other conferences (CppCon) and I’ll need to prepare Bash for that. We don’t want to do anything to discourage that and would like to capture it on the videos as much as possible. Related, but superfluous comment. There was a thread on reddit complaining about the interruptions at C++Now. But I’d rather have these complaints from people that “don’t get it” than to lose that important aspect of our conference. https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/2cyx9j/cnow_2014_undefined_behavior_in_c_what_is_it_and/ Part of the solution may be to have S/Vs standing by with handheld mics. Even if a question is captured on the mic, it should still be repeated for two reasons. One is that people in room, particularly those behind the questioner, may not have heard the question and the second is that having the speaker repeat the question in his or her own words assures the questioner that the speaker understood the question being asked. But as Matt pointed out, this can be a momentum killer if, after the initial question, a dialog or discussion breaks out. In that case having two S/Vs with handheld mics might be better than having the speaker trying to summarize every comment. That solution also addresses Rob’s comment (and Marshall’s comment to me) that we might be over-volunteered if Bash does our recording. I’ve discussed this issue with Bryce. We want the S/Vs to have the best possible experience, but we don’t want to lose sight of why they are there. Jon From: Boost Steering Committee <[email protected]> on behalf of Michael Caisse <[email protected]> Reply-To: Boost Steering Committee <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 8:14 AM To: Boost Steering Committee <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [boost-steering] Re: C++Now Videos: Time to Go Pro? I'm all for it! Matt brought up the interactive nature of C++Now which will be a challenge. Let's work with Bash Films and determine how to tackle this. The peer-like discussions are one of the items that make this conference the best I've attended. From: BoostCon Planning Committee <[email protected]> on behalf of Matt Calabrese <[email protected]> Reply-To: BoostCon Planning Committee <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 8:02 AM To: BoostCon Planning Committee <[email protected]> Cc: Bryce Adelstein-Lelbach <[email protected]>, David Sankel <[email protected]>, Boost Steering Committee <[email protected]>, Marshall Clow <[email protected]> Subject: Re: C++Now Videos: Time to Go Pro? On Feb 1, 2017 8:40 PM, "Jon Kalb" <[email protected]> wrote: tl;dr Do you want to have professional recording of C++Now sessions? Also related, C++Now is a very... interactive conference. By that I mean some of what makes it great are the discussions that take place during certain sessions between the attendees and the speaker. A talk is often very different from a lecture followed by questions, and that is, in my opinion at least, a good thing, especially given the nature of some of the sessions. Unfortunately this makes it difficult to capture in a video. Frequently you will only hear one side of a conversation (the speaker) and may be somewhat lost as to exactly what is being discussed. Always having the speaker repeat questions helps in some ways, but also has the negative side-effect of killing the momentum of a conversation. It'd be great if we could better capture the experience of a C++Now session seamlessly. So if we end up getting professionals to do the recordings, they should probably be aware of this dynamic, as they may have a solution that we either haven't thought of or have been unable to implement. I'm thinking anything from a couple of extra mics appropriately placed (possibly difficult in some rooms), or even "crowd-sourced" mic'ing, which I believe someone mentioned last year as a real possibility (someone either described or hypothesized a mobile app that allows individual attendees to record, and the recordings are then automatically synchronized into tracks for editting). Anyway, I consider this less important than getting professional recordings to begin with, but if it's possible to solve this problem as well, we should probably at least keep it in mind and let whoever does the recording know the situation in advance. From: BoostCon Planning Committee <[email protected]> on behalf of Rob Stewart <[email protected]> Reply-To: BoostCon Planning Committee <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 7:22 AM To: BoostCon Planning Committee <[email protected]>, Boost Steering Committee <[email protected]>, Marshall Clow <[email protected]>, David Sankel <[email protected]>, Bryce Adelstein-Lelbach <[email protected]> Subject: RE: C++Now Videos: Time to Go Pro? I can think of only one argument against professional videos: it will encourage more people to attend via video rather than in person. So long as we continue to sell out and can charge enough to cover the expenses, that argument is moot. Of course now we have less to justify the S/V role! ___ Rob -- 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.
