Protest ISOC-NY’s use of Flash for webcasts
I find it ironic that this is being broadcast in a format that I can not watch because I run a free software operating system, Trisquel, and refuse to install nonfree software on my machine such as Adobe Flash. The ISOC used to be very good at running their own free software, but the current ISOC-NY site seems to mostly consist of interfaces to nonfree web 2.0 cloud services many of which use nonfree formats such as Flash. Hopefully someone will make the talk available in Ogg Theora after it is complete, perhaps using http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/tinyogg – and hopefully Eben’s talk will have an effect on ISOC-NY leadership.
joly 3:46 pm on 02/05/2010 Permalink |
Indeed both vorbis and theora versions will be posted shortly afterwards. Unfortunately our streaming provider only utilizes flash. If you could educate us to an alternative (free as in no cost) provider utilizing a (free as in freedom) method we’ll be happy to investigate. Note that we are also using multiple software switched cameras on this stream, also via proprietary software (Wirecast).
Joly
ISOC-NY
Joly 12:25 am on 02/08/2010 Permalink |
ogg and ogv are now posted!
Audio: Presentation: mp3 | ogg ; Q&A: mp3 | ogg
Video Presentation: ogv ; Q&A: ogv : iPod and YouTube coming soon!