> > video recording is a real cost driver - you need expensive equipment (as > of 1.000 USD / day) and a lot of staff if you want to make it > professionally. >
How good is the idea, that instead of hiring these tools year after year, the WMF/Wikimania grabs a set of, say 10 portable, yet good video cameras, and reuse them from Wikimania's to Wikimania? Unless Wikimania is coming to an end in a couple of years time, I see grabbing such gadgets (if not already available) and making use of them from time to time a valid and profitable long-term investment. Talk of volunteers? I think when a call is put up for volunteer cameramen, we can get them to before every wikimania. Victor brought a great video camera (property of wmf) last year to wikimania. I enjoyed using it, and if there're enough for each session, getting cameramen shouldn't be an issue. The wikimedia community is big, thus aside maybe needing the expert/professional services of production houses to handle live streaming or sort, recording a session (a point and shoot thing), I don't think any rocket science might be needed of which we can find volunteers among us to do that. -- +Rexford <http://google.com/+Nkansahrexford> | khophi.co <http://khophi.co/about>
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