On Feb 27, 2015, at 9:44 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker
<phill(_at_)hallambaker(_dot_)com> wrote:
* I have no problem paying a fee but I am not the decision maker
* Paying a fee is better for my CFO
* Not paying a fee is even better for my CFO unless we get something for it
I think if you tell your CFO "As a paid attendee, I am obligated to pay full
boat, so here's the receipt," your CFO will pay without complaining. I am
sure there are marginal cases where the CFO will not pay, but I would expect
cases where the CFO _could_ pay but won't to be fairly uncommon.
One thing I really would like more of as a remote attendee is video of the
sessions. That is something worth paying for and it is something that we
should have adequate technology base for. If video streaming sessions really
is more than plugging in a camera... we is still doin it wrong.
What I would like to see here is a camera on every microphone, on the
presenter, on the chairs, and maybe one pointing back at the room, and someone
or something picking which camera to send to the feed at any given time, plus a
separate slide feed. The feed in each meeting room should be the slides plus
whatever the current video feed is. Registered attendees, regardless of what
they paid, would be able to ask questions in the mic line with video (optional)
and audio, or else by typing text that would appear on the screen when their
turn came.
This is eminently doable in principle, but I suspect not sufficiently automatic
at present for us to actually make it work. I suspect the meetecho people
_could_ do this, but not at a cost that would make sense for an IETF meeting
(yet).
So kicking in $100 a session for video is a no-brainer. Can make this an
advance payment thing. The video is only guaranteed if at least one person
drops the $100 though and the list of 'sponsors' of the video is only
published after the ability to sign up closes.
If someone wants to add video after the fact they pay a full conference fee
per session.
If the video has been captured, I think it's going to be hard sell to put it
behind a paywall, since it's part of the proceedings and hence part of the
consensus process. We don't paywall the audio; I think the principle is
similar.
So I think that your idea of voting with your wallet probably isn't the right
approach--it's not wrong, but I think you are setting your sights too low.