<div dir="ltr"><div style>Hi,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><blockquote><div class="im"><div dir="ltr">
<div>The current setup has been well tested and I believe well understood.</div></div></div></blockquote><div>More or less. My experience was that there were a few people who knew about this system, but it wasn't well documented online. The documentation, such as the DVswitch page linked above, is terse, non-adaptive and mainly handles the working case. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to speak with the people who really know this system - Ryan and Carl - and some of the other people who do know it - Tristan, James Iseppi, Matt Franklin, Euan, Liam and others - were only able to help educate me to a limited extent.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I just want to point out that Ryan and Carl offered to "do" video for LCA but the offer was not taken up. I urged the LCA2013 committee to take up the offer, but it was not done so.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I think one of the biggest sticking points is "why pay people to do what volunteers can do for free?". What do people feel about recommending that these volunteers are actually paid contractors?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>My reasoning is as follows;</div><div style><ul style><li style>Setting up for a conference consumes a person full time for at least a week, if not more before the conference and a week after. </li>
<li style>There is also a lot of demand for people with the correct experience, they could be doing a paid gig instead.<br></li><li style>Many have already purchased the equipment needed and invested money into the setup.</li>
<li style>Giving back to people is the right thing to do.</li></ul><div style>Thoughts, ideas, rejections?</div><div style><br></div><div style>Tim</div><div><br></div></div><div style><br></div></div></div></div>