[Nottingham] [Talk] This Wed 15/03/2006 - Ubuntu and Mac OS X

[Joshua Lock]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 15:15 +0000, karlryan.public at tiscali.co.uk wrote:
> I was going to put something like that myself but I had to go out (I do have
> a life outside of Linux) and this is the first time I've been able to get
> at my e-mail. Of course, you're absolutely right. People do not like to be
> recorded and thus nobody would give any talks. 

I would allow a recording of me! I know how silly I sound but I wouldn't
mind too much...

> Even if we did make podcasts,
> nobody would turn up for the meetings because there are podcasts available
>  (this is an issue in relation to webcasted lectures at universities) and
> then because there are probably better podcasts than the ones we would be
> able to do then people would stop listenning in all together and that would
> be the end of the group.

I can understand the reluctance and I agree with the points made.

I think we first need to get peoples slides put up on the site and see
if we can manage to keep that going? I will happily have my slides put
online although I will need to check the image copyrights first :D

> --
> Karl Ryan
> 
> >-- Original Message --
> >From: Michael Erskine <msemtd at yahoo.co.uk>
> >To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> >Subject: Re: [Nottingham] [Talk] This Wed 15/03/2006 - Ubuntu and Mac OS
> >X
> >Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:18:27 +0000
> >Reply-To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> >
> >
> >On Tuesday 14 March 2006 08:01, Andy Davidson wrote:
> >> If all that is needed is a 100 quid mic and decent sound card, I'd chip
> >> in, in order to have talks downloadable...
> >
> >If all that were needed was a 100 mic, I'd gladly pay for it myself, but
> >
> >unfortunately that _isn't_ all that's needed: it's a whole shedload of work.
> >
> >I don't want to put a dampener on this nice idea but... here goes :)
> >
> >There's plenty of Linux podcasts out there and the authors put masses of
> >hours 
> >into them for no reward; many fold after one or two episodes. It's hard
> 
> >enough to scrape together volunteers to give talks without laying on the
> >
> >extra pressure that a load of people will be downloading it later. Organising
> >
> >talks already takes enough time and effort to put most people off, and 
> >besides, we don't need any more reasons for people not to turn up to the
> >
> >meetings :)
> >
> >Regards,
> >Michael Erskine.
> >
> >-- 
> >There are more things in heaven and earth,
> >Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
> >		-- Wm. Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
> >
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