Added the suggestion to WMLondon brainstorming: https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming#Decentralize_Video_Sharing
On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, Nkansah Rexford wrote: > Sharing videos are so important. This is what I suggest. > > At the end of the wikimania, all videos shot (even if up to 15+ Gig) > should be available for any attendee to copy onto their external hard drive > or personal computer to take along to his/her originating country. At their > home countries, they can share those videos directly also with their > wikimedian friends who couldn't make it to the event. > > Like myself, I could have gotten the videos easily from Sandister, which > will be less costly, convenient, and faster to get instead of downloading > or watching online. > > I don't know of data costs in other parts of the world, but from where I > am, downloading/watching online videos *really *cost. Plus, the down > streaming speed isn't good. > > Summary: Make all recorded videos available at the end of the event for > anyone interested to copy (perhaps in an intranet) before person returns to > their countries. Sharing of the videos should be decentralized. > > rexford > > On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, Michael Peel wrote: > >> Hi Deryck, >> >> It's great to hear that the parallel sessions were recorded. :-) As a >> suggestion: those that are asking for these videos might also be willing to >> help edit and upload those videos to Commons. Would you be willing to share >> the raw recordings with interested individuals so that they could do so? >> >> Thanks, >> Mike >> (who is not volunteering edit video recordings here! Although I can >> provide some FTP storage for video files if that would be useful.) >> >> On 28 Aug 2013, at 22:08, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > All the sessions held in the Jockey Club Auditorium are still available >> on livestream: >> > http://new.livestream.com/socreclive/wikimania >> > >> > The other sessions have been recorded but will take some time to be >> uploaded. (Expect this to take a few months based on past experience - we >> only have volunteers!) >> > >> > >> > On 28 August 2013 18:18, Quiddity <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Nkansah Rexford wrote: >> > Please, can I get a link to watch some of the WMHK videos online? Or >> > they're not yet out? >> > >> > rex >> > >> > >> > I too would love to see the videos. Is there any news on where they're >> at? >> > The people who couldn't attend Wikimania, and the people who were >> > attending other sessions in the same timeslot, would all benefit so very >> > much! >> > >> > The schedule page could be an awesome Table of Contents, but currently >> > it leads to a lot of "teasers"... >> > https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule >> > >> > Also Slides - >> > Much thanks to those of you who've added your slides! If you haven't >> > yet, please do so. >> > If they're uploaded elsewhere, please also add them to commons (for >> > future preservation, in case prezi etc disappear), and group them in >> > >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2013_presentation_slides >> > >> > Thanks! >> > Quiddity >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimania-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimania-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> > > > -- > +Rexford <https://plus.google.com/107174506890941499078> | +CG > Central<https://plus.google.com/b/103109918657638322478/103109918657638322478/posts> > | > +233 266 811 165 l > BFCT<http://www.blendernetwork.org/member/nkansah-rexford-nyarko/> | > Wikimedian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nkansahrexford> > > -- +Rexford <https://plus.google.com/107174506890941499078> | +CG Central<https://plus.google.com/b/103109918657638322478/103109918657638322478/posts> | +233 266 811 165 l BFCT<http://www.blendernetwork.org/member/nkansah-rexford-nyarko/> | Wikimedian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nkansahrexford>
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