As we’re gearing up for our trip to Seattle, WA to attend Open Gov West this Friday and Saturday, I saw Travis Kriplean on Twitter ask whether sessions will be recorded.
Here’s my plea:
I encourage every attendee to bring their audio, photo and video gear and help record as many sessions as possible. I find that often at events like this too much value is lost by not systematically capturing the great content that people put out. Not only is this quite unfortunate for attendees who have to decide between sessions that run in parallel. It’s even more of a bummer for anyone who can’t make it to the event in the first place or will find out about it after the fact.
Sometimes, not everyone will be comfortable with being recorded and that should be respected. However, most of the time, capturing the sessions (from taking and sharing notes to snapping a picture of the whiteboard, from audio to video to live streaming) does not hurt anyone. It isn’t that hard to do, it’s simply that somebody’s gotta do it.
So, in the spirit of sharing and in an effort to help spread the spirit of this conference wide and far, please pack your gear and volunteer to make the content available on the web somehow. People will thank you!
And by the way, in case you’re still undecided about attending, check out the kind of research the above-mentioned Travis, for example, is doing: he explores “the design of systems and processes that support more effective large-scale dialog”. Pretty interesting, right? Thought so. Can’t wait to catch up with him at the conference and maybe do a quick interview for This Week in Participation.
See you all in Seattle!
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We should check if there’s someone in charge of creating http://twapperkeeper.com/index.php archives. To save the tweetosphere at the event
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