I am using a manually created /data partition as my personal space. Many dotfiles and 'dotdirectories' are distro+release specific. With having all my personal data in a separate partition makes switching distros (or using multiple ones) a breeze as I start with all my data intact and a virgin /home which I can populate with my dotfiles as I see fit.
Yeah, I wanted to keep things simple and let people search by name, too, even if it's a little outside the scope of the site. I'll run the issue by the board of directors.
They state that there will be "code that activates automatically according to criteria you specify (e.g. SOPA returns)". I'd hope that includes the ability to activate only depending on the country of origin as well.
Sadly for me, American law has a large impact in Australia even though we're half a world away. The Australian government tend to justify a number of stupid laws and decisions with "but America's doing it and we're their friends". As such I'd personally elect to still trigger on American issues as they're still felt (although delayed) in Australia.
Nice to hear, I am not the only one who uses RSS for extremely intense reading of all web sites and blogs I admire. Average users are heading more like to a TV-like reading mode; which is close to "passive". But It is nice to see there are a lot of hackers who want to "actively" select what they want to read.
Yes, please! A think a lot of people who won't be able to attend the conference would love to have the videos.
As you probably noticed, video quality of presentations vary greatly. I'm always amazed by the quality of the PyCon recordings: http://pycon.tv I'm speaking as an user; I don't have any affiliation with the PyCon AV team, nor I know anything about recording video.
I understand that you want to run the conference as non-proft, but I'm willing to pay to have good quality videos for this conference since I won't be able to attend, and I assume other people will be willing to pay as well. Maybe you could setup a donation page to raise money to record the videos.
Hi @gnufs, the idea is to have it done non-profit. So I'll be looking for volunteers to help me out with this aspect. Or I might approach Confreaks since they do a lot of conference filming. But not really sure how they operate...
I'm one part of http://www.44con.com/ and having run quite a few events in London would be happy to help out where I can. It might be worth at least meeting up for a chat to see what you want to do and bounce a few ideas around. My contact details are on my profile if you'd care to get in touch (as you don't have any on yours and a search for dotemacs on google yields quite a few results!).
Hey iuguy, how cool. Just the other day a read a post on how 44con came to be. Great reading. I'll definitely get in touch with you later today. For now, you can reach me as @dotemacs on twitter. Thanks for the offer & support!
- stable, straight facing video
- clear mic sound with decent loudness
to avoid wasting efforts on a great idea. Some recent lisp conference videos were shot with a weird angle, and the speaker mic was buzzing, rendering the video useless. It can be post-processed but it can also be avoided first hand.
Good luck
ps: since competent people are proposing help, I might be redundant.
To filter the overwhelming amount of readable content on HN, I personally use the http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=120 function. In fact, since the amount of voters have increased a lot, I think I'm going to increase the point cap to 200.
Is this some sort of DRM'ed format that's not readable on non-Adobe supported systems?
And, if it is, is there a way to buy a non-DRM version?