This subject has come up before (several times, I believe). I agree with Chris. Speaking from my own perspective, the question of whether the talk is available as a recording after the fact has nothing to do with whether I will show up: I'll make it if I can. That's always been the case and it will always be the case.
That said, I've often wished that I could get a recording after the fact in the cases where I couldn't make it. I can certainly understand presenters being camera-shy. Although when talking to a crowd of people, I usually find that the camera in the crowd is the least of my worries :-). It would be reasonable to give the presenter the option to decline being recorded. Chris Knadle wrote: > 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] > ============================================================================= michaelMuller = [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.mindhog.net/~mmuller ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer ============================================================================= _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 5 - Wearable Linux Computing Apr 2 - Building a Kernel the Debian / Ubuntu way May 7 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux Jun 4 - TBD Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative)
