[AG-TECH] Why record AG conferences

[John I Quebedeaux Jr]

Derek,

Those are the reasons I get requests for recording:  rebroadcast for 
people that missed the meeting and archival. On the other hand, i 
greatly suspect that they will or may not be watched anyway... but i 
don't know for sure since I haven't done it.

I maintain that AG sessions are for interaction - so my rant on this: 
some people who haven't been in an AG meeting seem to think it's simply 
a broadcast and it can be recorded and resent later as such like a 
webcast. They seem to think it should be a simple matter and forget 
there are multiple video streams and audio going on. I'm not going to 
pretend i'm a professional video/camera person for recording and 
rebroadcasting a session - I'm not. I'm running quite often now 
multiple AG sessions simultaneously in my 3 rooms here at LSU. What  I 
strive to do is  make our AG sessions as interactive as possible for 
productivity and  that's what it's for in my mind with an eye on 
quality of audio and video to make the interaction productive.

I'd rant on, but i'll stop now! =)

-John Q.
-- 
John I. Quebedeaux, Jr.
Louisiana State University
Computer Manager / LBRN & CCT / 131 Life Sciences Bldg. & 339 Johnston 
Hall
e-mail: johnq at lsu.edu or johnq at cct.lsu.edu / web: http://lbrn.lsu.edu & 
http://cct.lsu.edu
phone: 225-578-0062 / fax: 225-578-2597

On Feb 15, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Derek Piper wrote:

>
> 	Hi,
>
> 	I have a sort of 'Devil's advocate' question to ask everyone on the 
> list. It's this, what are the main reasons why someone would want to 
> record AccessGrid conferences? Also, what about invasion of privacy 
> concerns?
> 	I'm asking since I'm interested in learning how people (like us) feel 
> about recording conferences and if any of the people we maintain 
> services for have expressed interest in recording conferences too.
> 	I personally think that recording conferences is good for these 
> reasons:
>
> - Archival of important meetings/alternative note-taking
> - Re-broadcast for people that missed the meeting
>
> 	I'd like to hear what others think about this. As for invasion of 
> privacy, I'm sure there might be people that could abuse it but then 
> people can abuse anything.
>
> 	Derek
>
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> Derek Piper - dcpiper at indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111
> IRI 323, School of Informatics
> Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
>