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Idea #17503: Audio/Video Stream of Ubuntu Developer Week

Written by DanTrevino the 20 Jan 09 at 19:21. Category: Education. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Ubuntu Developer Week is a great resource, but the IRC venue leaves much to be desired. Audio & Video streaming would allow users to be much more engaged in the learning process.
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Solution #2: Stream server
Written by RainCT the 20 Jan 09 at 19:51.
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RainCT (Ubuntu developer) wrote on the 20 Jan 09 at 19:51
(Sorry, I deleted the solution by mistake. Added it back.)

nhandler (Ubuntu developer) wrote on the 23 Jan 09 at 22:46
I personally think that IRC is fine for sessions like this. IRC is a valuable tool in the Ubuntu community (and Development community). If somebody is serious about getting involved, they will need to use IRC. This is a fairly simple thing to do. Setting up audio/video streams would require that that the people leading the sessions have the necessary equipment to stream. I know I personally do not have a microphone or web cam for my computer, and I am sure many other people do not have these things. The session leaders would also need to install and configure additional software that they most likely do not already have on their computer. Also, the great thing about these sessions is that they aren't just guides on the internet, they are interactive. You can ask questions and follow along. If there were to be live audio/video streams of the sessions, people would still need to use IRC in order to participate. Another benefit of IRC sessions is that it is very easy to make the logs available online. An hour long video/audio file would take up a lot of space. It is also much easier to skim a text file than fast forward through a video/audio file trying to find the important parts. So to summarize some of the reasons I do not think video/audio streams are a good idea:

1) Not all people have microphones/web cams which are needed to create the streams
2) Creating the stream would require additional software that most people don't already have installed on their computers
3) The sessions would still need to use IRC as a way for people to participate in the sessions.
4) It produces large audio/video files that are more difficult to store and skim through.


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