[19861] in APO-L
Re: Hi-tech idea for Nationals 2000?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jodie Kahn)
Tue Jan 5 09:45:26 1999
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 09:45:10 -0500
Reply-To: Jodie Kahn <jodie@WALRUS.COM>
From: Jodie Kahn <jodie@WALRUS.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199901050219.VAA07819@vcmr-13.rcs.rpi.edu>
Richard,
Your idea sounds like a great one, unfortunately, I don't think that is
practical.
To have the webcam work, you need to be connected to the Internet. Having
worked at a company that did live webcasts, your biggest problem will be
getting connectivity in the hotel.
From my experience, the hotel will charge you an exorbinate fee for the
phone line and then by the minute for use of the phone line. This can be
really expensive.
Jodie
Delta Kappa Alum
Emory University
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Richard Edward Vehlow wrote:
> When one becomes idle the thinking gears begin to turn....
>
>
> ("Warning! Warning! Warning!" - the Robot, LOST IN SPACE)
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> Here's my first idea for Nationals 2000- a WebCam of the convention.
>
> Heck, if some freshmen in a school in the middle of Apple Pie, USA can set
> one up in their dorm room, who sez that APO with all our technological minds,
> and now laptop computers all wired up on site, can't rig up a camera and
> audio to go through a Nationals (or other) website to keep nonconventioners
> up to speed on what's going on?
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> Of course, discussion on ritual and other sensitive stuff will have to be
> blacked out, but the majority of discussion and goings on could be fair game
> for APO broadcast.
>
> What do you think?
>
> -REV
>
