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From: "Chris Adams" <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Once upon a time, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> said:
Well, we'll be on the *sending* end of the Hugo's, but... ;-)
You might want to talk to whoever did this year's WorldCon networking. I'm a Dragon*Con volunteer, and I know there was a some type of direct connection between Chicago (WorldCon) and Atlanta (Dragon*Con) so that we could show things like the Hugo ceremony (and I think we fed some video the other way as well, like the D*C Parade).
I know some of that went on, yes, and certainly if I'm more formally involved, I'll be querying the SMOFlist to see who ran things at the last 5 or so. My bet is that none of them *had* a formal CTO/Ops person full time. (Though of course, now that I've said that, those people will pop up here, saying "you talkin' to *me*??" :-)
I don't know how they did the "regular" Internet stream (except that it went through Ustream, who shut down the Hugo feed because of a DMCA complaint).
My understanding was that Dragon *took its main feed* for the Hugos via Ustream, and the entire room got left standing; no? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274