Upcoming...
Be a Speaker!
We're actively seeking out speakers. If you have a technical topic you'd like to talk about, please get in touch with us.
You may wish to review the past presentations we've had to see if your topic fits in.
Licensing
Unless otherwise discussed, all videos are released by vconf under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 meaning anyone is free to mirror, redistribute, repackage, and splice the video as long as it is done noncommerically, with attribution, and similarly licensed. Additionally, once the video is released under this license, copyright of the video is assigned to the presenter - meaning you can choose to sell, remove attribution, or relicense the video (however, because it's been released once under the CC, you can't put the cat back in the bag and demand removal from other sites mirroring it.)
The whole idea is to recognize and thank the presenter for their work - but also support the idea that Information wants to be free.
How does the software work?
It's pretty awesome. If you'd like to get yourself acquainted with it, in person, before your talk - let me know and I'll arrange a demo with you where we can play around. If you want to see some of the things you can do with the software - keep reading...
Share Your Screen
This is a no-brainer, but what's really nice is that the software completely works with Multiple Monitors: 
It's also netbook friendly: there's a bunch of ways for participants to control how they view your screen on theirs:
Webcam Integration
While you're showing slides we'd love to add in a webcam - it makes the session more personal and you can more easily telegraph your points.
Get Realtime Feedback
Participant raising a Hand
Feedback to Speak Louder
Feedback to Speak Softer
Chat Box
A chat box will be put in the presentation for people to add discussion.
Share Misc. Notes
There is a 'notes' widget that lets you type notes or paste web sites in for people to reference. It's more persistent that the chat box.
Upload a file
Upload a file from your computer
And everyone can download it
Let someone else share their screen/talk
By default, I leave the chat room available and mute everyone except you (because of 'open mic' feedback). However, you can grant individual people the ability to talk and/or share their screen. It's extremely fine-grained. We can let anyone or everyone do anything or everything:
Let Everyone Speak
Request Someone share their screen to show what they're talking about. Turn presentations interactive instantly!
This is what they see when you request
And take it back
Super-Fine Grain Access Control
Run a poll
You can run a poll before or during the presentation to get feedback on a topic.
