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
