On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Sean Dague wrote: > Honestly, I've always come out against recordings, as people will make > less of an effort to get out to the meeting if they can just watch it > later. The energy to keep the group going comes from people actually > showing up. I know I'd be a lot less interested in making sure things > go off without a significant hitch if it was just a couple of us and a > video recorder.
Hahaha yeah I remember a movie scene like that in "Real Genius". It's a normal fear for LUG, but there's nothing to worry about. In practice, NYLUG did not see a big drop in attendance just because they posted videos of their meetings. Their attendence essentially remained the same before and after. The meetings offer more than just the lecture -- the biggest benefit of LUG meetings is getting "face time" with the people within the group, socializing, asking questions, hearing what people are doing, and hearing people's stories and humor. I think that "face time" really is the biggest appeal of LUG meetings, and is probably why LUGs exist in the first place. I also agree that speaking to a camcorder would make me a more nervous speaker, and I wouldn't enjoy that. So there are other reasons why recording the meetings may not be desirable. > Doing an entirely seperate podcast wouldn't be such a bad thing, but I > don't really want us pushing the main session out that way. Another possibility might be to find a local college radio station to broadcast a show from, and also have the audio available for download. I think having the show broadcast over radio has a bit more appeal for those those that get invovled over the audio being download-only. I think that's what's getting more people involved in the FreeSoftwareRoundTable show -- http://FreeSoftwareRoundtable.org. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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