On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Andy Silva wrote:

Jos Poortvliet wrote:

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Heya,

Lots of people will be at oSC but many can't be there unfortunately. In a chat with Christian Boltz (who can't be there either) we thought it'd be great if somehow, those not there could participate. Of course this is a general, and hard problem. We do use IRC and remotely, some people will participate like happened last year.

But wouldn't there be a way to make this more visible? Having an IRC channel per room, visible on a second beamer perhaps, or on a screen? What do you think, is it possible?

/J

Being unable to participate is tough. We are truly a worldwide community and not always can we be together in one place. There can be instances when our participation, that of those not in attendance, is needed for some simple tasks. That is the moment when, I think, Google Hangouts, Skype, or live streaming is needed.

I do like IRC, but IRC, as well as the other alternatives, need someone in charge that can update the channel with news and proceeding so that those attending online can know if this or that event is of importance to them. Not to mention that it could be of importance to an even wider audience than the community.

I would suggest, if possible, to feature means of communication with the conference. However, assign a community participant to update the channels and add content to it. Last time I was at the openSUSE Summit, I broadcasted my presentation via live stream, and although it was a good idea, I was unable to moderate the live stream channel because I was on stage.

-- Andy (anditosan)

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Hey, we are provisioning for live streaming. Anything additional I guess falls into the volunteering tasks. We would need a volunteer per room to monitor the relevant IRC channel, gather questions from there and ask these questions to the speaker later on. That means we need an extra laptop in the room, but I guess pretty much every volunteer will come with their laptop. Is that what you have in mind Jos? But this is something we can setup like 3 days prior to the conference, right? I guess with the right amount of volunteers, we can make this happen fairly easily. (We currently have 23 people that volunteered through the 'Volunteers Form' - Video Team volunteers included). Is there something you can think of that we need to take care of in advance? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner@opensuse.org

On Monday 27 May 2013 00:24:25 Pavlos Ratis wrote:

Hello,

As Stella said we are provisioning for live streaming. In addition for IRC users, I could easily create an IRC bot which announces the upcoming/current presentations. For more details about the presentations and other stuff, we could have the social media guys with (+)voice in #opensuse-conference channel.

Regarding the questions, we could use the #osc13 hashtag and something like #room1, #room2, etc to match them easily. Another way is to inform viewers-geekos to apply their questions by replying/commenting to the specific social media announcement of the presentation. Then the volunteer who will be responsible in the room should collect some questions and ask the presenter.

That sounds like a good idea, yes. Have the volunteer in the room collect questions from IRC during the question part...

Pavlos

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Stella Rouzi (differentreality)

wrote:

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On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Andy Silva wrote:

...

Jos Poortvliet wrote:

...

Heya,

Lots of people will be at oSC but many can't be there unfortunately. In a chat with Christian Boltz (who can't be there either) we thought it'd be great if somehow, those not there could participate. Of course this is a general, and hard problem. We do use IRC and remotely, some people will participate like happened last year.

But wouldn't there be a way to make this more visible? Having an IRC channel per room, visible on a second beamer perhaps, or on a screen? What do you think, is it possible?

/J

Being unable to participate is tough. We are truly a worldwide community and not always can we be together in one place. There can be instances when our participation, that of those not in attendance, is needed for some simple tasks. That is the moment when, I think, Google Hangouts, Skype, or live streaming is needed.

I do like IRC, but IRC, as well as the other alternatives, need someone in charge that can update the channel with news and proceeding so that those attending online can know if this or that event is of importance to them. Not to mention that it could be of importance to an even wider audience than the community.

I would suggest, if possible, to feature means of communication with the conference. However, assign a community participant to update the channels and add content to it. Last time I was at the openSUSE Summit, I broadcasted my presentation via live stream, and although it was a good idea, I was unable to moderate the live stream channel because I was on stage.

-- Andy (anditosan)

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Hey,

we are provisioning for live streaming.

Anything additional I guess falls into the volunteering tasks. We would need a volunteer per room to monitor the relevant IRC channel, gather questions from there and ask these questions to the speaker later on. That means we need an extra laptop in the room, but I guess pretty much every volunteer will come with their laptop.

Is that what you have in mind Jos?

But this is something we can setup like 3 days prior to the conference, right?

I guess with the right amount of volunteers, we can make this happen fairly easily. (We currently have 23 people that volunteered through the 'Volunteers Form' - Video Team volunteers included).

Is there something you can think of that we need to take care of in advance? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner@opensuse.org