<dwinslow> Hey let's make a webapp!

This is basically outlined in that blog post I keep linking to.  It would be a web app for managing talks, with a way for people to register as interested in giving talks where each submission would consist of (presenter, title, prep_time). 

Submissions would automatically get a 'talk home page' that would house summary info and possibly more stuff to support talk preparation (like slides, discussion, comments from the peanut gallery, whatever).  After a talk had been given a the talk page would change state in some nice visible way, and we could have the transcript + slides (+ video? see below) archived for posterity.

Additionally there would be some nice 'meta' stuff like a list of scheduled talks (html, rss, maybe iCal), a list of past talks, some 'about us' info for random walk-ins from the web, and some nice admin tools like "given these calendars that I would like to avoid conflicts with, and the prep times requested by talk presenters, what talks + timeslots are available next week?"

<whit> Hey let's put videos online!

In the category of creating content that would win us lazyweb love and as a way of letting folks outside the office benefit from these talks and since we actually have a sub-organization of topp dedicated to video... I think it would be kickass to figure out a good and easy way to video the talks and get them online.

Doing effective videos of talks probably would look a little like this: a camera to capture sound and video, and some screen capture software to capture the slides.  Slap the outcome into imovie, edit slides and video together, upload to youtube and enjoy.  Could be a fun project for an intern to run with, especially if they have an interest in video or video editing.

• Rollie suggested using slideshare for this.