You seem to think that it's either streaming or recording. I don't think recording was ever questioned - it should always happen. I think the discussion is only about whether we should stream live in addition to recording.<br>
<br>Silvia.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Simon Lyall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@darkmere.gen.nz" target="_blank">simon@darkmere.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Sat, 23 Mar 2013, Russell Coker wrote:<br>
> The general impression I had received from LCA organisers is that for a long<br>
> time it's been an issue that allowing more delegates would imply choosing a<br>
> larger and significantly more expensive venue while also having less<br>
> freedom to choose location (as there aren't so many huge venues).<br>
<br>
</div>I tend to think that LCA is about the right size now[1]. The logistics of<br>
growing will limit venues and it will be come more impersonal. I would<br>
also note that some recently LCAs have not (or only-just) sold out so<br>
there might not even be the option of making it a 1000+ conference.<br>
<br>
I'm not really sold on streaming of videos. In my option this requires<br>
somebody to have the exact time of the conference free but not be able to<br>
attend.<br>
<br>
On the other hand recording and playing online of videos (and<br>
slides) is something I view as much more important. I'm sure there are<br>
many others in Aus/NZ who don't get to attend the conferences they would<br>
like to in the US ( For me: SAGE, PuppetConf, Velocity, Surge ) but<br>
instead get to read view the slides and videos from talks we were<br>
interested in.<br>
<br>
I very much view a conference that occurs but doesn't have videos (or at<br>
least slides) online afterwards as one that didn't really happen. For some<br>
hard numbers look at the youtube stats for some of the 2012 videos:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/linuxconfau2012/videos?flow=grid&sort=p&view=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/user/linuxconfau2012/videos?flow=grid&sort=p&view=0</a><br>
<br>
I count 46 as having more than 1000 views and the 3 had 33, 24 and 15<br>
thousand. The one with the least views still go 92. Of course this is just<br>
on youtube and doesn't count the number of people who looked at the videos<br>
directly from the official archive. The videos from 2013 haven't be<br>
officially uploaded to youtube (idea!) but this "unofficial" copy of one<br>
talk (1 guess) has 6682 views <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44</a>.<br>
<br>
[1] Trying really hard not to say this in my "conservative old man" voice.<br>
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