Hi Littlebtc, We don't have good numbers for this, unfortunately. I also don't think they would be very telling, as streaming was not widely promoted either of the past two years. The right answer will depend largely on how many people know it is available. Perhaps you can do a poll of people who expect they would use it; I would guess that at least 200 streams would be used if available and well-promoted. If you make remote participation a core element of the conference, you could attract more interest than that. --SJ On 11/21/06, 小犬 <sst.dreams(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- ++SJ

小犬 schreef: I was watching it when it worked. Regarding the streams I would focus not on the live streams but trying to get fast after every event the recoding of it online. For Wikimanina 2006 it was announced several times that there where recordings made and that the where coming online soon. At this time these recordings are still not listed on the Wikimania 2006 archive page. What exist is made by people in the audience or recordings made from the live stream. I recommend; - try to get the recordings online between 15 and 60 minutes after every event online. That is really not difficult. - give priority on the audio recording above the video recording - providing a stable distribution channel for the media. Consider bittorrent For the live stream; - provide also an audio stream of it - broadcast it also with peercast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peercast - The not announced use of RealMedia for the live stream for Wikimania2006 was very inconvenient. I understand that if the streaming service is offered for free by someone it will be in the format the are useing. But if the use a non WMF recommended file format it must be know in time by the interested people so the can try to get support for it on there computer. Also publish a sample file if that is the case so that you can test if of playback works. -- Contact: walter AT wikizine DOT org Wikizine.org - news for and about the Wikimedia community