Winston clarified: > Thanks to Chris and Reinhard for your thoughts. You both refer to "text". > What I am really considering is doing away with the computer (for the > purposes of creating text) completely, asking the participants to render > their reports (including "who came" etc.) entirely on the flip charts, > and > then using the camera (and a basic photo editor) as the sole > "transcribing" > device.
I hear you, and it's a great idea. I know, however, that a lot of my clients like to be able to take the text of typed up proceedings and cut and paste it into all kinds of other documents and so on, so that while a photographic proceedings would be great, depending on the organization, people may still need to have digital text that they can use in other ways. Size would still matter though. An OST event with 30 proceedings photographed at a decent resolution could be pretty big, in the 3-5Mb range, which would make emailing them really difficult, and downloading would be inconvenient to say the least. That would be my only consideration. Imagine doing an OST proceedings for a blind group with audio proceedings? Sound compression technology I think is better than photo compression, and having everyone with a report speak it into a mic would give a pretty cool mix of voices and so on. Or maybe both.... Chris > Winston > --- CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology Bowen Island, BC, Canada http://www.chriscorrigan.com [email protected] * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
