FYI -- MS Office 2003 has a free add-on called MS Producer that kind of mashes Window MovieMaker and PowerPoint together to let you create a preso with audio and/or video. It's buggy, but's something to look at if you have Office.
Even if there's a tool -- you still need to get folks to create the "premium content". What's in it for them? (besides fame and admiration from adoring geeks) ;-) I'm curious how many folks would be more interested if they were _selling_ a presentation? 'pop'...the sound of a dozen geeks ears pricking up. Example: $250 for 60 mins preso, guaranteed even if only 5 people pay to watch or $1 per paid view of the preso -- if 5 people watch you get $5, if 5000 watch you get $5000. How much would you pay to watch a typical JUG-quality 60 min technical preso (i.e. not necessarily a professional presenter, with a well-oiled presentation)? $1 $3 $5 $10 $25 other? How much for a No Fluff quality preso (ex. Dave Thomas on Ruby, Bruce Tate on EJB -- with well-rehearsed material)? -Timo > -----Original Message----- > From: Chad Woolley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:23 PM > To: jug-discussion@tucson-jug.org > Subject: Re: [jug-discussion] Re: Organization & Hosting Solution > > The RubyOnRails guys seems to have a pretty low-tech approach: > > http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts > > They use Snapz Pro X (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/), > which I guess is Mac only. > > The point is, they just have a screen capture and audio of > the presenter talking. This should be sufficient to at least > have something started, right? If the presenter diligently > repeats any questions, keeps random audience conversation to > a minimum, and people can live without seeing any live video > of the presenter or audience, something like this just might > work, and wouldn't require any cameras or fancy sound stuff.. > > Anyone know of a non-Mac solution which does the same sort of thing? > Anyone want to volunteer to put it on their laptop and let me > use it for my presentation this month? :) I don't have a Mac > and my laptop is so old I'm embarassed to take it out in public... > > -- Chad > > On 2/3/06, Steven Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/3/06 11:51, "Tim Colson (tcolson)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm not saying it's impossible -- just pointing out that it isn't > > > simple. > > > > I agree with Tim that you can make producing the content a huge > > effort. I was thinking of something simpler, more of a: > > record the audio of the presentation. > > sync the audio with the powerpoint slides. > > import the powerpoint to breeze. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
