Are the costs covered now or do we still need a sponsor? If we do I can pass this along to somebody who might be willing to step in as I learned yesterday.
Cheers, Uli On Tue, March 17, 2015 21:39, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On 03/17/2015 11:02 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >> Hi Rich, >> >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: >>> ...As of right now, we don't have a sponsor to cover recording >>> conference >>> sessions - video or audio... >> >> How much money are we talking about, approximately? > > > > We're looking at 20k to bring in a professional video company to record > all the talks, and do post-production. There's also the option of > splitting the cost with another sponsor - one has identified themselves > privately, but are not, at the moment, willing to pick up the entire > tab. So there's an opportunity for sharing the cost. > > And, lest this number feel really large, folks that have done this can > verify that it is indeed a HUGE amount of work to do this well. > > But it's kind of an all-or-nothing thing, so far as which sessions we > record. We don't want to field "why was that talk recorded and not mine" > kinds of questions, and we don't want to miss talks. So we don't really > have a half-way option. > > We also have the option of bringing the ASF's digital recorders, > plugging them into the audio boards, and then doing volunteer audio > editing after the event, like we did in Vancouver - but that's *just* > audio. > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >
