I've volunteered on the pycon AV team, in 2009, it's 1000x more work than what you described further up in the thread, a minimum wage worker holding something steady. It requires a lot of coordination, and I think the cost to the conference would be much higher than InfoQ as well.
On Monday, March 25, 2013 1:05:51 PM UTC-4, Cedric Greevey wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Michael Klishin > <michael....@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> >> 2013/3/25 Cedric Greevey <cgre...@gmail.com <javascript:>> >> >>> Don't forget that Youtube has MILLIONS of visitors per month. >>> >>> Imagine the impact if the videos were available when demand for them was >>> actually at its peak, rather than after half the people that had been >>> interested have forgotten all about them. >> >> >> I challenge you to put together a technical videos channel that has >> millions of visitors per month. >> > > Another minute, another straw man. My point is that the needed video > hosting capability already exists (and even has monetize options). Of > *course* it will be expensive to go the "reinvent all needed wheels" route. > > I don't get it. The thread got complaints that the videos were being > produced slowly and inefficiently, yet as soon as someone actually > suggested ways to potentially make the process faster and more efficient, > practically *everyone* leapt to the defense of those same slow and > inefficient methods that they'd previously complained about. I guess > abstract kvetching is okay, but concrete suggestions are frightening > because they might *actually lead to change* or something. Although that > still doesn't explain why someone then had the gall to criticize *me* for > not making concrete and constructive suggestions, when that's exactly what > I *did* do after *other people* had merely complained without making any > suggestions. > > Of course, I don't really *need* to argue anymore, because someone else > helpfully pointed out that an existing conference already does a better > job: pycon. That completely disproves the entire class of arguments along > the lines of "making *conference proceedings* videos is somehow some sort > of a special case and it HAS to be slow and expensive!", of which we've > seen several, sadly including some *after* pycon was first mentioned. > > -- -- 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.
