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I absolutely agree with you Sean. We should use
irc:openstack-community for the accompanying text-only transcript and
a general OpenStack community YouTube channel as a Hangout target
would be awsome. It's good to have all content from online sessions in
one place. I will do some research over the next few days: Who would
be able to provide that transcription service as I described it? What
would they charge and how would we (OSUG Poland) organize those
sessions?

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Sean Roberts <seanrob at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> I think this is an excellent idea. With a hangout plus irc, we have a replacement for webex. I'd like to create an OpenStack community youtube channel that we can use as the saved hangout target. How about we use irc:openstack-community as well?
>
> ~sean
>
> On Jun 14, 2013, at 9:43 AM, "Stefano Maffulli" <stefano at openstack.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri 14 Jun 2013 08:42:30 AM PDT, Rafael Knuth wrote:
>>> One of our key takeaways was that many attendees from emerging regions
>>> like Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific were not able to join our
>>> Google+ Hangout due to bandwidth limitations.
>>
>> I have experienced the same issues with Hangouts with my brother in
>> Italy (his home is very distant from the ADSL switch --whatever it's
>> called, and his connection speed is very low). Hangout uses too much
>> bandwidth for some parts of the world.
>>
>>> We spoke with OpenStackers in Ghana, Ethiopia, India and we came up
>>> with the following idea: Why don't we transcribe our Google+ Hangout
>>> sessions and distribute that content live via IRC?
>>
>> Have you considered ditching Hangout altogether at this point and go
>> straight to IRC? What would Hangout be used for?
>>
>> If (understandably) you would like to use voice for the meeting, I
>> would look at alternatives like Mumble/Murmur or good old phone lines
>> sided with slides shared online as simple html. For low bandwidth that
>> should be more than enough and every participant is on the same level
>> (no first class citizens).
>>
>> Mozilla Foundation uses https://air.mozilla.org/ where they stream
>> audio and video (broadcast, from multiple sites now) from the rooms
>> they meet in and accept questions in from audience via IRC. This is an
>> example of a recorded meeting
>> https://air.mozilla.org/the-monday-meeting-20130610/. It used to be
>> less sophisticated than that, the latest recordings seem too fancy :)
>>
>> I think it would be good to have a general purpose platform, simple to
>> use, to connect events across the world. I think a URL to announce the
>> event, share slides and one-click-connect to live audio stream (video,
>> if possible) would be great to have.
>>
>> /stef
>>
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