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[Grégoire <gregoire AT fripost.org>]

On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 14:00 +0200, Stian Rødven Eide wrote:
> 2013-10-16 13:38, Grégoire skrev:
> 
> >> * We will film all talks, but probably not the Serengeti
> >> workshops as there might be children participating.
> 
> > Do you have a plan the post-processing of the footages? I can 
> > participate but it's too much work to do it all myself.
> > 
> > Here is a quick draft of a plan I have been thinking about and 
> > something I can commit to: 1. taking care of encoding the videos. 
> > This is mostly automatic and is a pain to set-up so we might as
> > well centralize it. 2. dumping it all in a ftp server, like
> > fosdem[1] does 3. curating a few talks (I'm thinking the keynotes
> > and some selected talks) that we upload to youtube&ci for promotion
> > 4. Each track manager is then responsible for curating videos for
> > his/her own track if he/she wants to
> > 
> > Note that 2. requires a ftp server with enough space and good 
> > bandwidth. One possibility would be that fscons buy a NAS so that
> > at least the storage is independent from any external organisation
> > and it could double as backup storage for our webserver/wiki/...
> 
> I do not know of any concrete plans for the video post-processing. This,
> I think, has not been optimal in previous years and should be improved.
> I can probably help out too.

So how do you propose to do it?

> >> * We decided to get printed t-shirts this year.
> 
> > With which design? In 2011 we made a "year-less" t-shirt design in 
> > the idea that it could last many years, and there is still some
> > (not a lot) t-shirts from the last batch: 
> > https://wiki.fscons.org/Inventory
> 
> With more or less the same design as the poster. I asked the designer
> about his opinion on the matter.
Ok
> >> * We decided to change the official FSCONS-colors to the ones
> >> used in this year's poster and banners.
> 
> > This means that a lot of things will need to be updated (booklet 
> > layout, web layout, t-shirt...), is that really the smart move at 
> > less than a month of the conference?
> 
> Well, we can start the change now where it is convenient. If it is too
> much of a hassle in any particular case, I wouldn't mind keeping with
> what we have.
Fine with me.

> > Additional question:
> > 
> > What is the rational for putting track names in the 'room name'
> > field in the schedule?
> 
> The public schedule columns show room names and not track names. Since
> I wanted to profile the tracks (and not the rooms) I decided to make
> them the same.

Is that a temporary state? Otherwise, how will the people know in which
room to go?

> > Is there anyone assigned to the booklet layout? Otherwise I'm 
> > volunteering for it. I'd like to avoid last year last minute panic 
> > and I have some improvement in mind that I couldn't make last year 
> > due to time constraints.
> 
> Noone is assigned to that. Please take charge of the booklet :-)
Ok!

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