Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ssbell!kent
From: kent@ssbell.IMD.Sterling.COM (Kent Landfield)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: nominees BOF?
Message-ID: <614@ssbell.IMD.Sterling.COM>
Date: 12 Jan 90 17:24:27 GMT
References: <1990Jan9.221705.17622@utzoo.uucp> <316@limbo.Intuitive.Com> <6922@pdn.paradyne.com> <1990Jan11.193931.4650@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1990Jan11.193931.4650@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <6922@pdn.paradyne.com> reggie@dinsdale.paradyne.com (George W. Leach) writes:
>>     The interaction that takes place at this BOF should be recorded and
>>disseminated to the entire USENIX population, not just the BOF attendees.
>>Perhaps a transcript of the BOF can be printed in ;login: and/or put in
>>this newsgroup.
>
>This would be an excellent idea... but it means that *somebody* has to
>record and transcribe two hours of talk.  Either Usenix would have to
>supply someone to do it -- and my impression is that they're stretched
>pretty thin at conference time, so I suspect the answer is "no" -- or
>someone would have to volunteer.

Tape recorders are great for recording sessions. The tapes can then be
transcribed after the conference has ended and the panic is over. I have
always wondered why Usenix didn't record all their sessions on audio tape
and then make those tapes available for purchase. Yes, I know that it
would compete with the video tapes but time is at a premimum and I 
don't have a VCR in my car...

			-Kent+