{"id":2459,"date":"2011-01-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/videos-and-transparency-john-s-quarterman.html"},"modified":"2011-01-27T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T13:00:00","slug":"videos-and-transparency-john-s-quarterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/videos-and-transparency-john-s-quarterman.html","title":{"rendered":"Videos and transparency &#8211;John S. Quarterman"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NexTHgxySYI\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/NexTHgxySYI\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nHere\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NexTHgxySYI\">\nI discuss with the mayor<\/a>\nabout the Valdosta City Council videoing their entire meetings and putting\nthem on the web for everybody to see.\nThe mayor indicated costs of streaming was an issue;\nI recommended putting it on YouTube or Vimeo and letting them handle that part.\nI think the AJC article he mentioned is this one:\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/north-fulton\/meeting-access-video-grows-805803.html\">\nMeeting access video grows among city councils,<\/a>\nby Patrick Fox, 18 Jan 2011.\n<p>\nThis comment by the mayor was amusing:\n<blockquote>\nThe worst thing you could do would be to have one camera in the back\nthat has room audio.\n<\/blockquote>\nTouche, Mr. Mayor! :-)\nWhat do you think, is a noisy video from the back\nof the room more useful than no video at all?\nCan you see him waving his arms around?\n\n<!--more-->\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NexTHgxySYI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<center>\n<small>\nVideo by Gretchen Quarterman of the regular meeting of the Valdosta City Council, 20 Jan 2011<br>\nfor LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange\n<\/small>\n<\/center>\n<p>\nA handheld camera such as Gretchen was using or such as I was waving\naround in the front of the room can do panning and zooming,\nand if you put it on a tripod it would be steadier.\nUse more than one of them and you can cover the whole meeting from several\npoints of view with redundancy in case one camera fails.\nThat&#8217;s just one of several ways to do it.\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/view_play_list?p=DCDF62232EF24A63\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/TFyEFX7M5Mw\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nHere are the videos of\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/view_play_list?p=DCDF62232EF24A63\">\nthe entire 21 Dec 2010 VLCIA board meeting.<\/a>\nThere are some parts missing: I didn&#8217;t video when I was asking or they\nwere answering me; I didn&#8217;t video the invocation; and the camera I was\nusing has about 6 seconds delay between stopping one video and starting\nto record another.\nIf the VLCIA board or other bodies did their own videoing, they could\navoid these problems.\n<p>\nThe mayor gave his cold to Gretchen, but she&#8217;s getting over it;\nI hope he is, as well.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here I discuss with the mayor about the Valdosta City Council videoing their entire meetings and putting them on the web for everybody to see. 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