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LinuxCon 2011 Keynotes Streamed Free

Posted by samzenpus on from the from-the-comfort-of-your-own-home dept.

DeviceGuru writes "All keynote sessions from the LinuxCon North America 2011 conference held in Vancouver this week are being made available for free public streaming today through Friday (August 17-19). One noteworthy highlight: today's 4:45 pm (pdt) keynote will feature Greg Kroah-Hartman in conversation with Linus Torvalds. Viewing the streams requires free registration."

30 comments

  1. "Viewing the streams requires free registration" by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1

    I thought Slashdot's Terms of Service required a snarky comment always be appended to a statement like that. So where's the anti-registration rant - or at least a mention of "bugmenot"?

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  2. Why not put the videos on youtube? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Many major FOSS conferences post the talks as videos on youtube or vimeo. That allows me to choose when to watch the talks. Why not be helpful?

    1. Re:Why not put the videos on youtube? by retchdog · · Score: 1

      Maybe they want to produce some numbers to demonstrate interest in linux? Why not let yourself be counted and thus be helpful yourself?

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  3. IT'S NOT LIKE ANYONE WOULD PAY FOR IT !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So well duh !!

    Rupert

  4. And PDT is UTC -0700 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    At the time of writing it's 19:00 hours in PDT, so 4 hours and 45 (oops, 44) minutes from now Greg Kroah-Hartman and Linus will have their keynote. (23:45)

  5. Video streaming link by kvvbassboy · · Score: 2

    A relatively badly designed website. It was not obvious (at least to me) but here is the link, and you have to give them your email address: Live Video Streaming link

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    1. Re:Video streaming link by sakdoctor · · Score: 1

      Email registration just to watch a video?
      Cool story bro.

    2. Re:Video streaming link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "you have to give them your email address"

      Maybe you "have to", but you can get away with entering an address for a throwaway email. I'll try a made up adress too...

      Still says "Enjoy the Live Video Streaming".

    3. Re:Video streaming link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's worse then that: it requires a proprietary program riddled with vulnerabilities to be installed. I have NoScript and RequestPolicy in place to make sure ONLY ustream.tv gets to run the plugin.

    4. Re:Video streaming link by ghmh · · Score: 1

      Indeed. If you have to register it's not really free is it.

  6. Re:"Viewing the streams requires free registration by sourcerror · · Score: 1

    OMG privacy, they're out to get me!

    Statisfied now?

  7. Re:Help! by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 0

    Do I need to see a gynecologist?

    A therapist would be more appropriate.

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  8. Very restricted by Animats · · Score: 2

    They're on a fixed schedule, available for a limited time, and require registration. You'd think they'd just upload them to the Internet Archive and be done with it. Talks for previous years are on "video.linux.com".

    1. Re:Very restricted by tonyt3 · · Score: 1

      I've tried to watch several times -- when they were presumably "live" and the video screen always says " Off Air." bummer

  9. No need to register by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Seems like they are using ustream to stream it, and this is the ustream channel:
    http://www.ustream.tv/channel/linux-foundation-live

    1. Re:No need to register by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks

  10. Flash, really? by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 1

    Neither Youtube nor Vimeo are the most Linux-friendly way to do this. That said, I have no idea what they chose instead, or why...

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  11. Yes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    but does it work on Windows?

  12. they're streaming live, hence the fixed schedule by Chirs · · Score: 1

    It's possible that they'll upload the post-processed videos at a later date.

  13. Ah... Linuxcon is in Town by CohibaVancouver · · Score: 0

    I wondered what all those ponytail guys in socks and sandals were doing walking around nearby.... That explains it.

  14. Re:"Viewing the streams requires free registration by sourcerror · · Score: 1

    That's the least they should do to protect their intellectual property.

  15. Waiting for torrent... by luk3Z · · Score: 0

    Waiting for torrent...

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  16. Go with youtube! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Youtube has html5-support for most of their videos, and they have started enabling it by default for some users.

    I don't know what their criteria is, but my desktop with Fedora 15, and Firefox >=4 (not sure which version I had when I visited youtube the first time on the machine) and I was auto-added to the beta.

    The exception is videos with with ads, they use the flash player.

  17. Recordings avaiable? by lzap · · Score: 1

    Are there video recordings available?

  18. Re:Amirite bros? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No means yes, and yes means anal.
    Get with it.

  19. Being made available for free public streaming by cerberusss · · Score: 1

    keynote sessions being made available for free public streaming

    Actually, the keynotes weren't made available. They escaped, leaving a bloody trail of network engineers in their wake.

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  20. Odd. by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 1

    Well, and Vimeo allows some videos to be downloaded with free registration, so that might be the friendliest...

    One weird thing, though. Remember all the fury about Chrome dropping H.264 in HTML5? Just went to youtube.com/html5 with Chrome 13 and found it's supported.

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