Perhaps you could delay the posting of the videos. Another thing to consider
is a service like Viddler which allows restricting posting, which you could
restrict the videos to plugs website and drive some traffic to some adsense
ads. Might be a decent way to raise a little money for installfests etc.

Eric

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

> I like the idea of having presentations recorded and posted. but the
> point of the meeting is to meet and greet each-other.
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
> > Last time we streamed the meetings, a lot of people stopped coming in
> favor
> > of watching them from home.  Then our video capture card burned up and we
> > decided that we were probably doing more harm than good.
> >
> > I can think of a lot more fun things to do on a Thursday night than to
> > perform in front of a camera for free without the social interaction that
> > makes PLUG really worth it.
> >
> > I would be more in favor of recording the meetings and eventually posting
> > them on the website at a later date.
> >
> > Brian Cluff
> >
> > On 03/05/2011 05:06 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> >>
> >> We could even use these to web cast our plug meetings ;)
> >>
> >> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Crawford Rainwater
> >> <crawford.rainwater@linux-etc.com>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Folks:
> >>>
> >>> Linux ETC can host both Big Blue Button with a Drupal front end as well
> >>> as OpenMeetings.  I emailed the PLUG Mailman list managers inquiring if
> PLUG
> >>> would be interested in using either of these for the PLUG meetings as
> well,
> >>> but have not heard back on that topic.  Linux ETC is hosting for a few
> other
> >>> LUGs around the US for reference as a donated service.
> >>>
> >>> For specifics and details on our end:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.linux-etc.com/web-conference
> >>>
> >>> If there are specifics, feel free to email me directly as well as post
> >>> them to the PLUG list.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Crawford Rainwater
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