World: r3wp

My points:


- I enjoyed Reicharts talk. I found the format to be fine. We submit 
questions and he answers quickly.

- For future eDevCons, keep them on fixed dates (+/- a week), 2 times 
a year with pre-announcements 2 months prior to the devcon. With 
fixed dates, people will be able to adjust to "the devcon season", 
and allow presenters to make some great presentations without hiccups.
- Could RT "sponsor" a news item on rebol.com for the date?

- DevCon could also be for beginners. An expert could provide courses 
(although I don't know if that should be for free). This point may 
not be ideal to carry out in a devcon at this small scale.

I actually was capturing the output of yesterdays conference with 
my screen capture tools but my connectioin was bad because of the 
storms in the area and became so choppy that it was useless to me.

I suggest another addon to the Devcon site called MyDevCon where 
people can post their own videos of demostrations of their products. 
 I know Graham has done video presentations of his efforts before. 
 Would be nice to see how some of these projects work in the interim.

Or just MyDev.

Sunanda, agreed...

Basically there are for stream techs we need:

- Camera
- Computer screen
- Text
- Audio.

All of this needs to be captured.


Text is still BEST in AltME, it was designed for this, this is also 
a way to bring people into the fold.


Computer and Camera are not the same concept, since video is fine 
at 320x250 (even if stretched), while Computer needs to be exact. 
 


We still have some tweaking to do here, but this is coming together....

Instead of fixed dates, we could also adapt to presenters availability. 
ie., wait until there are a certain number of presenters, and then 
fix the date.

What I would do though, is to distinguish the numbering of Devcons 
- I would not call it fourth devcon, but first virtual DevCon. OTOH 
even with "phasical" devcon, many ppl do attend virtually anyway. 
So what do you think about that?

I agree, this could also have different name than devcon... something 
more on the "easy" less official side, so potential presenters would 
not feel they can't present something more minor they are working 
on in short and maybe more would participate. something like virtual 
rebol gathering ... just thinking outloud

who did finance or sposor this conf now?

sposor = sponsor .. I mean I guess setting up streaming probably 
wasn't free?

Has the devcon been uploaded for viewing yet?

This is a stream from a friend of mine http://www.ustream.tv/channel/freedom-of-information-2008-az


She is using UStream to do this.  I'm going to play with this, but 
it "seems" sort of perfect for the Video part of what we are doing.
you set your "Show time" and go!


But, I will only know after I have played with the incoing, and also 
tried broadcasting, and gotten feedback from a large group.

What about registering the Virtual Devcon and the real ones and putting 
them on a YouTube channel ?

Reichart, I checked the link but it does not seem to run...

Alan, the stream has not "happened" yet.  This is a stream that "will" 
happen in the future.

In fact, this is one of my complaints of their UI.  IT does not treat 
it like a "meeting"

Janko, I used bandwidth that was unused in my FMS account (actually 
paid extra to cover possible larger attendence, but it was unnecessary). 
 An event like this could support 8x the number of people we saw 
for a total of about $30.

It's not just the money, it's also your time. it was extremely generous 
of you, Nick, and the others who helped with the organisation.

I would rename DevCon to QtaskCon

In fact, I would change the name of Rebol to Qtask.

(A little tongue in cheek there.. don't get too wound up)

hmm, Qtask might be good name for REBOL too :-) But - that is not 
possible imo, as Qtask is legal entity, which will have its own business. 
And Qtask is also a product.

Terry, while acknowledging your tongue in cheek, this conference 
was a little last-minute and that limited the presenters somewhat 
:(

Props to Reichart and Chris for being able to pull something together 
on such short notice.

With any luck the next online DevCon will have more preparation time. 
I look forward to your presentation, Terry :)

Let me know, I'll present Rockstar.

Has a date/time been proposed?

Any update on the devcon "video". Has it been uploaded anywhere?