[wsfii-discuss] Re: WSFII Documentation

Tue Dec 13 07:51:35 UTC 2005

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:29:54PM +0000, Josef Davies-Coates wrote:
> Really great to see all the documentation up :)
> 
> Big thanks to all concerned!
> 
> Re: video - surely it is crazy/hypocritical (espcially considering much 
> of the events were about openness and sharing etc.) to not give everyone 
> access ALL the documentation we have?
> 
> I understand not wanting to get high bandwidth bills, but there are 
> plenty of services such as http://ourmedia.org and http://commonbits.org 
> etc that specialise in hosting such stuff. Why not use them and post the 
> relevant download/torrent links?

Maybe the problem is that they don't have software for this. The only
usable free sw for video editing - Cinelerra - is horrible crap. I tried
it myself and when it accidentally has a bright moment not being busy
segfaulting, you don't have the slightest chance to figure out which
button and which option is supposed to do what.

> Also, I couldn't see any licence information. Who owns the copyright of 
> these materials? Have they dedicated the documentation to the Public 

The one who holds the camera.

CL<

> Domain? Or released it under a Creative Commons license? Which one?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Josef.
> 
> >From: Marina Vishmidt <marinar at artserve.net>
> >Subject: [wsfii-discuss] Re: WSFII Documentation
> >To: wsfii-discuss at lists.okfn.org
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> >Hi -
> >
> >Just for clarification of Karel's question about the video interviews, and 
> >for others reading this, NODE.L isn't putting up the video interviews, 
> >only audio interviews and still images - this is due to the consideration 
> >that video interviews are perhaps not that interesting to watch in 
> >themselves (there's only the audio archive of the stream from the WSFII 
> >panel presentations/discussions as well, though I believe there was never 
> >a video stream for those in the first place), also to free up server 
> >space.  All the video interviews have had their audio stripped and 
> >uploaded as audio interviews, along with some still from the video 
> >footage.  
> >We do have the tapes of all the video interviews stored, so I would love 
> >to offer people files of the video interviews on request, but 
> >unfortunately we do not currently have the budget to pay for someone to be 
> >on call to encode the files.  However, if someone would really love to 
> >have a particular video interview, I can put you in touch with one of the 
> >members of ELAM and perhaps you could work out how to make that happen 
> >with them.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Marina
> >
> >
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