Hi Harald, I've seen successful events of all kinds, both using online presence and not. It solely depends on the attitude of the audience and that's why I was asking about it. I apologize that it introduced too much noise. I will respect any choice, I just want to make sure we make as many people happy as possible.
Regarding my Skype note - for me it's similar to using Altium where I would love to use an open-source app. I always prefer open-source as you know, but I'm quite pragmatic in tools selection when it affects my performance of working on open-source projects. I again apologize for mentioning it where it's not appropriate. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 04:20, Harald Welte <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all! > > I really wanted OsmoDevCon to be an even from Osmocom (+related) > develoeprs for such developers, with the idea of working together > intensely and sharing some experiences face-to-face. > > I also understand not everyone is able to attend, for scheduling, travel > or simply because they didn't realize about the event in time. > > I think broadcasting at least some the presentations (not general > discussions) via SIP or any other audio streaming method might be ok, > but I would make that dependent on the individual speaker. For > discussions or other non-presentations, I don't think it's a good idea. > Talking privately in a room full of people is one thing, talking while > it is publicly streamed and possibly recorded an entirely different > thing. > > Having remote presenters is also not what I had in mind. We might > consider that if one of the scheduled speakers is unable to attend, but > not as a planned scenario for events that are not even scheduled. > > Furthermore, I'm not a big fan of active participation by remote parties > either, I fear it has a huge potential to delay the event. > > Now there might be occasional exceptions, i.e. somebody not present at > the event but still actively involved in one particular subject that we > want to discuss. In that case having a teleconference via SIP or other > method may be appropriate for that given topic / person. > > If I understood correctly, Sylvain and Peter have suggested to take care > of it from the technical/infrastructure side. I appreciate that and we > may use it where apropriate (see above). > > btw: I strongly discourage the use of skype in the context of Osmocom by > all means! We're working very hard to create Free Software > implementations of open-specified communications protocols. Let's not > make the world more complicated by using (and thus suggesting it was > appropriate to use) completely proprietary communications systems. > > Regards, > Harald > -- > - Harald Welte <[email protected]> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ > ============================================================================ > "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." > (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6) -- Regards, Alexander Chemeris.
