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From: Ross Gardler <rgardler@opendirective.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:51:35 +0100
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Subject: Re: Teleconferencing options for speakers who cannot attend
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On 23 October 2012 10:40, dsh <daniel.haischt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just an idea - how about if somebody from the German AOO team would be
> co-presenting and does the driver of the presentation? Is that
> feasible or wouldn't there be any reason in such a model?

I fully agree with Christian's concerns and think your proposal is a
"best of both worlds" solution.

Ross

>
> Cheers
> Daniel
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Christian Grobmeier
> <grobmeier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Honestly (and sorry to say), if I attend a conference and pay the full
>> price, I would be more than disappointed if the presenter is not in
>> the same room as me. I can watch youtube videos without wasting my
>> money. I am not the conference expert, but I doubt there are (many)
>> other conferences using remote presentations.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Christian
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Steve Holden <steve@holdenweb.com> wrot=
e:
>>> Andrea:
>>>
>>> Apparently we don't have any guarantees on quality of service, so we ar=
e suggesting that speakers who wish to try this route should prepare a vide=
o for use if the remote presentation doesn't work out.
>>>
>>> I presume that no special room set-up will be needed for these talks ex=
cept audio connection to the computer that's used to display the call?
>>>
>>> regards
>>>  Steve
>>>
>>> On Oct 23, 2012, at 8:06 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>>>
>>>> As discussed on the ooo-dev list http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_m=
box/incubator-ooo-dev/ we have several speakers from China (all in the Open=
Office track, it seems) who are facing delays in getting a visa to Germany =
for ApacheCon.
>>>>
>>>> A suggestion from Louis Su=E1rez-Potts is to allow teleconferencing: s=
peakers who cannot be physically in Germany would still be able to give the=
ir presentation as an online seminar.
>>>>
>>>> Would this be possible with the current infrastructure in Sinsheim?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>  Andrea.
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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