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This post is my personal opinion and does not reflect any official position I hold. For my more-or-less official report of the Preliminary WSFS Business Meeting, see the item published in the Chicon newsletter. I did write that, but it by necessity has to be short.
( Background: Changing the Rules Part-Way Through the Game )
We got over to Crystal Ballroom B in the West Tower of the Hyatt early, to give Lisa more time to try and cobble together something that might work. She used the tripod to set up the medium Panasonic and strapped the small Sony onto a small portable table we found. Approximately every 30 minutes, we had to call a short technical time-out (usually less than two minutes) to allow Lisa to swap a memory stick on the Sony and a battery on the Panasonic. She could then take the Panasonic battery out into the lobby where there are power outlets for mere mortals to use. However, the Panasonic batteries do not charge as quickly as they decharge, of course, and by the time she got back around to battery 1, it wasn't fully charged.
Not including a recess in the meeting, and including the fact that we had to adjourn 30 minutes early today due to a request from Programming, the Preliminary Business Meeting lasted almost exactly two hours. Amazingly to both Lisa and me, the recordings on the Panasonic covered the whole meeting.
The net result, once we got back to our hotel room and I was able to edit together the individual segments from the Panasonic, was this recording. Thanks to my having found that the wired internet connection in my room works and has 10 mbps upload speed, the compiled 2-hour recording took less than an hour to upload.
If you have two hours to spend, you can watch the whole thing. I'll say up front, through, is that there was a vast amount of futzing around with people who don't pay attention.
( More Details About the PBM )
I think that's everything. In effect, we spent around two hours in a three hour time slot doing a lot of debating, but not doing a lot of substantive business. But sometime that is how it works.
It's possible that we've got the workarounds in place for recording the remaining Business Meetings here in Chicago, but it will still be more stressful for Lisa than either she or I wanted.
( Background: Changing the Rules Part-Way Through the Game )
We got over to Crystal Ballroom B in the West Tower of the Hyatt early, to give Lisa more time to try and cobble together something that might work. She used the tripod to set up the medium Panasonic and strapped the small Sony onto a small portable table we found. Approximately every 30 minutes, we had to call a short technical time-out (usually less than two minutes) to allow Lisa to swap a memory stick on the Sony and a battery on the Panasonic. She could then take the Panasonic battery out into the lobby where there are power outlets for mere mortals to use. However, the Panasonic batteries do not charge as quickly as they decharge, of course, and by the time she got back around to battery 1, it wasn't fully charged.
Not including a recess in the meeting, and including the fact that we had to adjourn 30 minutes early today due to a request from Programming, the Preliminary Business Meeting lasted almost exactly two hours. Amazingly to both Lisa and me, the recordings on the Panasonic covered the whole meeting.
The net result, once we got back to our hotel room and I was able to edit together the individual segments from the Panasonic, was this recording. Thanks to my having found that the wired internet connection in my room works and has 10 mbps upload speed, the compiled 2-hour recording took less than an hour to upload.
If you have two hours to spend, you can watch the whole thing. I'll say up front, through, is that there was a vast amount of futzing around with people who don't pay attention.
( More Details About the PBM )
I think that's everything. In effect, we spent around two hours in a three hour time slot doing a lot of debating, but not doing a lot of substantive business. But sometime that is how it works.
It's possible that we've got the workarounds in place for recording the remaining Business Meetings here in Chicago, but it will still be more stressful for Lisa than either she or I wanted.
