[Asterisk-Users] Astricon Podcasts?

[trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 00:05 -0400, Dean Collins wrote:
> The question is would people choose not to go if it was necessarily
> available as a broadcast.
> 
> You're thinking old school.
> 
> 
> Dean
> 

I am thinking the convention was set up for money, I cant believe that
the rate generates no profit.  Not that profit is a bad thing, but
anyone doing something for profit isnt going to stab themselves in the
back to prevent that profit.

There is added value to go in person, you get to have side
conversations, do networking, get to see the slide shows (which can be
done via a webpage) etc.  But there is something better about being
there in person.  So I believe people would go, but maybe not as many,
and there is a cost to providing it voip style, bandwidth, servers, etc.

Of course if you really wanted to be clever you would have several nodes
that people call into, which are all connected to the main server that
is at the conroom hooked up to the microphone, etc.  That way all the
traffic to the main server is stable and relatively low, and the leaf
nodes (other asterisk boxes) have the brunt of all the traffic.  This
way the hub server would not be flooded off ruining everything for
everyone when 134091309451093 people try to connect to it.

Adding the record functionality and muting participants would also mean
that the hub server would be able to make audio files available after
the lecture is over.  The main server could run a shoutcast stream to be
fed to mp3player() or something on the leafs (idealy you would want a
proxy on the leafs so each leaf causes 1 and only 1 stream off the main
hub.

Could be a good marketing tool.  Tout the final number of clients
connected in such a distributed environment listening live.  Show the
power to skeptics.

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