Re: [Ghm-discuss] Guile talks at the GNU Hackers Meeting?

[Shane Celis]

Hi Luca,

Yes. This sounds like an excellent idea. I'm happy to record a talk and do the 
Q&A with an audio/video connection. Thank you for the opportunity. 

-Shane

On Jun 25, 2013, at 3:00 AM, Luca Saiu <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello Shane.  And thanks Ludo and David for handling this; I had missed
> this response yesterday.
> 
> On 2013-06-24 at 20:16, Shane Celis wrote:
> 
>> I'd be happy to give a talk regarding the Emacsy[1] GSoC project
>> (video here[2]).
> 
> Great.
> 
>> The travel costs, however, are a bit prohibitive for me (I'm a
>> Ph.D. student).  I could do a talk over Skype though.
> 
> As the others have already said we should use some free software program
> instead.
> 
> However if possible I'd like to restrict that to the final Q&A part
> only; in my experience such software tends to be shaky, and I'm even
> having some problems with the network connection quality at the venue (I
> work there a couple days per week).
> 
> We have another speaker in a similar situation, and I think the same
> solution can work for you: why not pre-recording a talk?  It can be a
> commented screencast, you speaking at a blackboard, slides with your
> voiceover, or any combination of these things.  Showing your video will
> be easy for us: we'll use the same projector we have for presentation
> slides, and loudspeakers.  That just *can't* fail.
> 
> You would be part of the audience (to keep the experience less
> impersonal), and we can have a live audio or audio/video Q&A session
> with you at the end.
> 
> We can attempt a live remote presentation as well if you want, but I'd
> like to have at least a backup plan.
> 
> Would this be OK for you, Shane?  We can work out the details on
> ghm-discuss -- other people will have useful feedback, too.  In any case
> I'm adding your talk to the page.
> 
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> 
> Thanks, and welcome.
> 
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> Luca Saiu
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