Some years ago a person asked me, "Can you show us how to keep our website attractive and uptodate?". I said, "Find somebody who wants to do it.". That is my specific reaction to several mentions of video recording. However, it applies to almost everything oclug does. In other words, oclug should change its perspective from doing, or proposing (or begging), to allowing. If somebody wants to record meetings, let them. Make it physically possible. Help them clamp their mike to the podium. Set up a YouTube site, or whatever. Or, if somebody wants to post a list of videos, give them a page on the oclug website. If somebody wants to hand out ubuntu at libraries or community centres, let them call themselves oclug. And store some bumph on the website. All of the public library branches I visit periodically host workshops of m$ products. Maybe there should be scattered small oclug(tm) teams who preach and install linux. Even bsd.. why not. Since the oclug meeting moved out of my neighbourhood, I stopped going. OCTranspo is a lot better now but still not good enough. But why do wwe insist on gathering 150 people scattered among the 3/4million spread over the huge Ottawa-Carleton area? Why not a dozen meetings of a dozen people? Supplemented with videos, virtuals, ircs, blogs, odd people flitting from meeting to meeting as interests them, odd mass gatherings. Whatever oclug does, it won't be done, unless somebodies want to do. So, if there are people out there, if you are wanting to do something, maybe you should gather a few friends and do it in your neighbourhood. School, library, community centre, coffee shop, park, or basement. Print up some pages with oclug's url on it and pass them around. The Board can herd the cats and attempt to control who gets a webpage. Greg Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 05:22:33PM -0400, John C Nash wrote: >> I think that we should be considering "online" options. I doubt (maybe this is personal >> bias) that it will be popular as a full-time alternative, but I support exploring the >> options and trying it out, as I can see how it could fill a void. > > For some time I think Bart was video recording meeting talks and posting > them online... I think this was a worthwhile endeavour even though I > never used the service myself. > >> JN >> >> On 03/22/2012 12:55 PM, Bill Strosberg wrote: >>> Further to my "I wonder" comments about the club future and how we meet, >>> what IS the state of things out there? Has anyone delved into larger >>> scale virtual meeting presence? I use telephone conference calls >>> frequently, Skype on a small infrequent scale and have dabbled in >>> Asterisk a little. Cisco does a good commercial job of packaging this >>> for commercial use, but what about open source options? >>> >>> From an open source perspective, here we have a distributed application >>> where clients could do a lot of data reduction processing to minimise >>> traffic. Participant's client computing resources could make the load >>> do-able. Kind of like IRC with optional video and audio elements. >>> Generating a centrally available post-event "presentation" would be >>> interesting. It seems all the pieces may be available but arranging the >>> parts collectively would be a challenge if it doesn't already exist. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> -- >>> Bill Strosberg > > slainte mhath, RGB > > -- > Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.net> > <www.TriColour.net> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! > Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% > Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________ > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > >