[group-organizers] Watch PyCon videos?

[Jeremy Dunck]

David Gouldin and I ran an event like this in Dallas some years ago.
We bought a keg of beer and some pizza, publicized the event, and had
only 5-ish people show up.  On the other hand, 5 people in Dallas was
about normal for a community event, and the people that came seemed to
enjoy it.  We watched, I think, 5 talks and took short breaks between
them.

I don't think it's weird to watch a talk video in person, or indeed to
time-shift as a group in general, or to watch a live thing as a group
though not together in person, etc, etc.  Our existing media
consumption patterns are mostly accidents of history, I think.

rifftrax.com does augmented audio tracks to sync with existing media.
HotPotato did internet-based group forming around live events, totally
a startup idea I hoped to do some day.  Acquired by Facebook long
before we could see if it worked or mattered - a great loss.

There is fertile ground here, as any MOOC'er likely knows. ;-)


On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Mathieu Leduc-Hamel <marrakis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hummmm I like this idea !
>
> Cause it is the same thing for, i've basically saw nothing at PyCon
> cause i was always in the greenroom and i told myself not worry cause
> i will saw the video after from Pyvideo.
>
> I'm wondering if we'll select a couple of interesting videos and what
> them at our next Project Night. Do you think it could appropriate for
> this kind of event ?
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
>> I always have a problem post-PyCon, which is that I mean to watch videos of
>> talks I didn't see, but then I don't watch them.  Has anyone tried running
>> an event that consists just of watching PyCon videos together?  A poll
>> beforehand could select the videos to screen, then put the video on the big
>> screen, watch together, and have a q+a/discussion afterward.   Does this
>> work?  Is it weird to watch a talk on video in person?
>>
>> --Ned.
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> Mathieu Leduc-Hamel
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