[clug] Videotaping CLUG talks

[James McNeill]

I agree that taping all of the meeting would inhibit people due to risk 
of being an idiot on public record, rather than just for a moment in 
front of people that know you're an idiot.

Many speakers are kind/organised enough to put the slides of their talk 
up on their own web sites afterwards. I would encourage this instead of 
live footage.

any chance of running a talk through voice recognition, and putting a 
transcript up?

-jm

Andrew Pollock wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:13:55PM +1100, Darren Freeman wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 11:19, Andrew Pollock wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I'm interested in having a play with videotaping CLUG talks (provided this
>>>is okay with the speaker) and putting an MPEG of the talk somewhere.
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>>I think this will have an impact on the atmosphere of the talks as
>>people will be holding back on interjections for sake of the camera.
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>Fair enough.
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>>Also some people will decline to give a talk rather than admit they are
>>camera shy. In particular if they are a bit of a novice at talks or the
>>subject matter.
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>Also fair enough.
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>>I think people should have to ask specifically for their talk to be
>>taped for the above reasons, it shouldn't become the normal thing to do.
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>I have no problem with this. I don't always go to CLUG, and I may discover
>it's all too much effort, and so far I haven't received consent from
>tomorrow night's speaker to videotape, so at this stage, nothing's
>happening.
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>>Still I think it's a question worth raising, maybe it's going to pioneer
>>the next big thing in LUGs. I know I would view a talk from another
>>Aussie LUG if it was on the subject matter I was trying to learn about,
>>and the file size wasn't prohibitive.
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>My motivation behind doing it is that the Brisbane SAGE-AU chapter used to
>tape monthly talks, and it was a benefit to people who couldn't make the
>meeting, but didn't want to miss out on a presentation that was of interest
>to them.
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>You've raised some perfectly valid points, and I've Cc'ed this back to the
>list for further discussion. If the general consensus is it's a bad idea,
>then naturally, it won't go anywhere.
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>regards
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>Andrew
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James McNeill
Medical Genome Centre
John Curtin School of Medical Research
Australian National University
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