Tim Williams wrote on 5/5/16 8:34 AM: > Hi Rich, > How much is the sponsorship for this? And, given the lack of external > sponsors, why don't we (ASF) just sponsor it given what a great > support/service it'd be to our projects and their communities?
That's actually a great question. There is a clear value to having at least keynote/major talks recorded for posterity. But given that, why haven't we (or rather, LF) been able to find a sponsor to pay for this? There's a clear sponsor prospectus: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/sponsors Of course, the actual prospectus is behind a pardot.com login, so I guess you have to be a salesforce kind of person to see it. 8-( On the larger level: - How can we better showcase the value of having recordings/audio? Do we have actual viewing numbers from past conferences showing demand? - How can we better assist sponsorship of things at ApacheCon ApacheBigData without conflicting with ASF Sponsorships? > > Thanks, > --tim > > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: >> As some of you know, we do not have a sponsor to handle audio/video >> recording at ApacheCon this year. Thus, we'll be doing it ourselves - >> just audio, not video. >> >> So, I need volunteers for the following things: >> >> If you are willing to video presentations and put them on YouTube, >> please step up and do this. Keynotes, in particular, would be appreciated. >> >> More importantly, I'll be dealing with 8 tracks x 9 hours x 5 days of >> audio that will need to be edited. This isn't complicated, it just requires: >> >> * Computer with Audacity ( http://www.audacityteam.org/ ) installed, and >> your own headphones >> * Lots of patience >> >> The process is: >> >> * Dump huge files off of SD cards at the end of each day >> * Split large recording into sessions >> * Strip off leading, trailing noise >> * Encode to mp3 >> * Upload to feathercast.apache.org >> * Write brief boilerplate blog post (Name, Session title, Abstract) >> >> If you are willing to do this for even an hour, please let me know. I >> will be doing this each evening, for the duration of the event, and >> probably quite a bit during the days. If you just drop by the hackathon >> area, and help me out for even a brief time, I'll be very grateful. >> >> Thanks. >> >> --Rich >> >> (Looking towards next event, if you or your company want to sponsor >> audio/video for the upcoming ApacheCon EU, your company will get a lot >> of thanks and retweets out of this.) >> >> -- >> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen >> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
