Sean Dague wrote:
>On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 08:33:46AM -0400, John Mort wrote: > > >>On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Why don't we have the videos on youtube and just link to / embed them >>> from the wiki so we save bandwith? >>> >>> >>Unless I'm mistaken, there's a length limit of something like ten >>minutes on youtube, so it's a little extra work on the part of the >>poster to split things up and on the viewer to chain them together. >>Flickr just started a video sharing service, I wonder if their >>limitations are less restrictive. >> >>Personally I have a camera that takes home movie quality videos and >>supposedly my SD card should hold about an hour. I've toyed with the >>idea of recording but no one ever mentioned a desire for it so I never >>bothered trying. I don't expect the audio would be sufficient, but it >>would cost nothing to try so since someone has asked about it I could >>try recording the next meeting I am able to attend, which won't be >>todays. ;-) >> >> > >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. > >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. > > -Sean > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >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) > > Hi Sean! I understand the problem. However quality and availability could improve. My problem is age related involving eye sight and deffinatly the cost of gasoline. Glass fiber is much cheaper than gasoline and hard drives are much more accessible than libraries. Burt _______________________________________________ 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)
