On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 17:08 -0500, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: > Over the weekend, I met the president of a LUG in Michigan while I was > in Indiana. He expressed a past interest in getting someone to come to > one of his LUG meeting to talk about openSUSE. Upon closer examination, > I realized it wasn't financially feasible to make a trip to Michigan for > an evening meeting (thus also having to stay overnight) as his LUG has > only about 15 members. And I started to think about who might be closer > that can go to that specific city. (Ann Arbor) > > That size is typical for a large number of LUGs out there. > > I suggested perhaps we can do an online webinar of some sort, and he > liked that idea. > > The more I thought about this since then, the more I think we should > organize a formal webinar program here at openSUSE. We can use these > webinars to give focused presentations to LUG groups. We can also meet > with more than one LUG group at a time, thus covering greater distances > in the same amount of time. > > We could, and should, also use the same concept and service to create > openSUSE tutorials and other online presentation events that appeal to > people beyond just LUGs. For example, if we launch a new > product/service/update, we can host a Q&A webinar for journalists. > > A nice online OBS webinar tutorial also comes to mind. > > There's plenty of commercial software out there that we can use and not > have to worry about hosting the software. Some of us have already done > meetings via Skype to LUGs. But a) some people have an objection to > using non-free software for webinars, and b) those services can cost > money, although they provide a hosting service, thus taking away our own > need to provide infrastructure. > > I think we should actively look at viable open source options and > address the feasbility of hosting it within our own infrastructure. And > then begin a formal scheduling strategy of webinar events to promote as > well as reaching out to LUGs around the world to invite them to request > a "virtual" guest speaker at their next meetings. > > These meetings/tutorials offer the benefit of live interaction with the > community as well as a way to archive our sessions for those who are not > able to attend live. > > Thoughts, folks? > > Bryen M Yunashko > openSUSE Project > > > > Kablink had a conferencing technology. I wonder though if it was discontinued since I couldn't find it when I was looking for it.
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