Hi Luca, Yes. This sounds like an excellent idea. I'm happy to record a talk and do the Q&A with an audio/video connection. Thank you for the opportunity.
-Shane On Jun 25, 2013, at 3:00 AM, Luca Saiu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Shane. And thanks Ludo and David for handling this; I had missed > this response yesterday. > > On 2013-06-24 at 20:16, Shane Celis wrote: > >> I'd be happy to give a talk regarding the Emacsy[1] GSoC project >> (video here[2]). > > Great. > >> The travel costs, however, are a bit prohibitive for me (I'm a >> Ph.D. student). I could do a talk over Skype though. > > As the others have already said we should use some free software program > instead. > > However if possible I'd like to restrict that to the final Q&A part > only; in my experience such software tends to be shaky, and I'm even > having some problems with the network connection quality at the venue (I > work there a couple days per week). > > We have another speaker in a similar situation, and I think the same > solution can work for you: why not pre-recording a talk? It can be a > commented screencast, you speaking at a blackboard, slides with your > voiceover, or any combination of these things. Showing your video will > be easy for us: we'll use the same projector we have for presentation > slides, and loudspeakers. That just *can't* fail. > > You would be part of the audience (to keep the experience less > impersonal), and we can have a live audio or audio/video Q&A session > with you at the end. > > We can attempt a live remote presentation as well if you want, but I'd > like to have at least a backup plan. > > Would this be OK for you, Shane? We can work out the details on > ghm-discuss -- other people will have useful feedback, too. In any case > I'm adding your talk to the page. > > I'm CC'ing ghm-discuss@. Please subscribe to the list, using the > interface at https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ghm-discuss . Let's > not bother the good hardworking Guile people with more distracting > followups :-). > > Thanks, and welcome. > > -- > Luca Saiu > Home page: http://ageinghacker.net > GNU epsilon: http://www.gnu.org/software/epsilon > Marionnet: http://marionnet.org
