[Planning-en] online SFD meetup

[Rik Tindall]

Hi SFD-Team-World(-En),

And thanks James Purser for picking up on the idea Team Christchurch put 
forward on top of our pictorial report from SFD2, one year ago next 
month. The link/quote may be lost in the institutional history now, but 
it proposed that team events be streamed into a conference mode that can 
be joined or observed from all around the world.

Christchurch came up with this idea having realised that, as (currently) 
NZ is the first timezone to see SFD dawn, we could offer to 
launch/anchor said streamed SFD coverage. Also, as a very geographically 
isolated country, these sort of international hookups have great 
significance to us - explaining why we thought of it. Consequently, we 
have stepped forward in our goal of participating in SFD the whole time 
it is 16Sept2006 somewhere in the world, and have organised a (first?) 
two-day SFD built around a webcam-PC teaching suite: 
http://www.infohelp.co.nz/sfd3

So, once we've mastered the technology use, we will be there in 'the 
great online SFD conference call' too :-)

Good luck with organising it James. A very fine suggestion indeed.

James:
"We are planning a SFD event with a difference. What we would like to do
is run a live broadcast that will attempt to talk to SFD teams from
around the world. This would be a combination of live interviews and
pre-recorded interviews.

The aim is to have this show streaming live for those SFD teams who have
net access at their events to show that its a global event, as well as
help the different regions listen in to what everyone else is up to.

I am looking for groups in each region who would be interested in taking
part. If you're interested then please let me know, either off list or
on, it doesn't matter."

Cheers!

Rik

pp Team Christchurch NZ