I have done a fair amount of polling on this for Strange Loop and it's problematic.
- there are a small number of interested people which thus requires high per-person prices for videos (higher than you think - Strata video compilation is $400 for example) - high prices further reduce the number of people willing to pay - high prices also increase the likelihood that people will simply share access to others, further reducing the number of people - any video purchase system requires a significant amount of infrastructure for authentication and payment that either needs to built or bought, either of which further drives up the cost. - knowing there is a video compilation available may reduce conference attendance (I think this is actually unlikely but it's possible) I think it's probably far more tractable to make individual videos per-pay on a small cost (an app-like model). This is at odds with the InfoQ model but a model I've discussed with some other companies. That said, I want to spend my time running conferences, not building or managing per-pay video apps. On Friday, March 22, 2013 11:47:20 PM UTC-7, Alan Busby wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Alex Miller > <al...@puredanger.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> The benefit to attendees and non-attendees is that the videos exist at >> all - without the InfoQ deal, the cost of recording, editing, and hosting >> videos is literally the difference between whether the conference is in the >> red or black. For attendees, I do really wish that I could provide talks >> sooner just to you and I continue to discuss options for that with InfoQ. > > > Just a thought, but I know a few conferences where the videos are > available for sale after the conference (Strataconf?). > I know I'd be happy to pay $50-100 for the timely videos instead of > waiting 3-12 months after the conference when I can't attend. > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
