+1 to what Michael said. Once the videos do start rolling in, InfoQ will have at least one Clojure video on the front page for months on end. I once said to a friend after Clojure/West last year,"InfoQ? Oh! You mean the Clojure Channel."
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Michael Klishin < michael.s.klis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2013/3/25 Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com> >> >> Don't lecture me about what software is or is not capable of. > > > Nobody even mentioned what software is capable of. You cannot produce > great content without experienced people involved. > > Shooting something only looks trivial. There are all kinds of issues that > we viewers have no idea about: > > * Some speakers have terrible mic technique, speak too loudly then too > quiet. You have to level that out during editing. > * Some speakers run around the stage like crazy because they are too > excited/worried/their talk is a clown show. Software is not ready to handle > that well. Amateur videographers aren't ready either. > * Hardware fails. Amateurs have no idea what to do and how to plan for > redundancy. Professionals deal with it all the time. > * You need to understand acoustic characteristics of the room. Again, > amateurs have no idea how to assess it or adapt the shooting process to it. > > and the list goes on and on. Putting together all this costs money, that's > why the Strata videos (there is 100+ of them from last year if I am not > mistaken, by the way) > cost money. > > Alex & co have put together 4 or 5 conferences. According to some people I > know, they are some of the best conferences in recent years in our industry. > I think it's reasonable to assume Alex knows what he's talking about, what > the alternatives to this InfoQ deal are and what was realistic > given the time and budget they had. > > Proudly declaring you can do better with amateurs working minimal wage and > some free software is very, very optimistic. > > Don't forget that InfoQ has 600K+ visitors per month. At one video a week, > there will be months with constant stream of Clojure content on it. > It is the kind of exposure that helps the Clojure community *a lot*. More > than the rest of Clojure marketing/promotion > combined. Imagine what kind of long term impact it may have. Are you > willing to ignore all that just to make the videos appear > all at once for free? It's very shortsighted if you ask me (if you care > about Clojure, that is). > -- > MK > > http://github.com/michaelklishin > http://twitter.com/michaelklishin > > -- > -- > 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. > > > -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- -- 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.
