[Server-sky] IR filter brings excellent benefits

[Michael Turner]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:06:16AM +0900, Michael Turner wrote:
>> A series of instructional videos would be nice ....
>
> Oh goody!  A volunteer!

If only I had such skills.

> Actually, I have some videos of some of my talks and slide shows.
> If anyone wants to post them to the web somewhere besides my own
> limited bandwidth server, I'll sent them the bits, and the names
> of videographers whose permission they will need.

YouTube/Vimeo, if you can get the permissions?

> For new stuff, if someone wants to write a script and do the video
> editing, I will sit in front of a camera and yammer.  I'll even
> practice a few times beforehand.  Others can probably do better.

For funding/recruiting for your various media projects here, why not
put together a rough budget estimate, pad it by 30% for safety, do a
quick-and-dirty selfie video (like Zac's for KickSat), and submit it
to KickStarter? You might start by holding up a inked-up sheet of
aluminum foil and saying,

"What if KickStarter's videos were downloading from a server that was
actually satellite a few hundred miles up, only this big, and this
thin, powered by the sun instead of coal? One of millions of such
satellites? Putting the world's servers in space could save x% of the
world's energy expenditure. It could also reach into the poorest
corners of the Earth with the kinds of rich, fast internet services
/you/ take for granted. I want to make that future happen. Here's how
you can help."

Ask for, i dunno, $1800?

> My first priority is to make sure what I have on my computers and
> in my notebooks and slide shows make it onto the wiki, and that
> the wiki survives me.  My second priority is to make the wiki
> consistent and organized;  moving target, hard to do.

I've been meaning for some time to convert my PmWiki-based stuff to
Semantic MediaWiki. Maybe after I do that, and convince myself it's
really miles better, I'll try to sell you on it.

> ... My third
> priority is finding an author to turn all this into a readable
> book, affordable to my target audience of young technology geeks
> in the developing world.  They will build this; Euro-Americans
> are too distracted and unmotivated.

Actually, one of the nice things about MediaWiki is that there are
tools that can automagically convert a selection of articles into
publisher-ready book manuscripts.

> And my zeroth priority is to have fun imagining the future, in
> sufficient detail for bogosity testing.  I won't live to see
> most of this happen, but most people in the future will be too
> apathetic to understand what is happening to them.  So I have
> a more detailed view than they will.  An acceptable tradeoff.

Do I detect a slightly cynical tone? No, no ....


Regards,
Michael Turner

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