[253] YouTube concerns

[Richard Smith <smith@sfu.ca>]

Several groups in several tutorials (and in my office hours) raised  
the issue of their videos being on YouTube. I had picked YouTube  
because it seemed to me that it solved the problems we've had with  
display of videos and also sharing among students. It provokes other  
problems, however, and I completely understand your concerns:

	* some interviewees agreed to do it because it was a student  
project, visible to students

	* some students don't want to become the next "numa numa" guy

	* some students don't want their work commercialized or used to  
promote commercial sites.

Actually, no one raised that last concern, but I think it is a  
reasonable one.

My solution? I don't know yet, but I will try to figure out a way to  
have the videos appear in the wiki. I think this can be done but I  
have to have your agreement that you will keep your videos under 10mb  
in size, ok? I don't want to completely melt my server!

Another, related issue is "how are we going to see 25+ videos in 2 hrs?)

The answer to this is not yet worked out in detail but it involves:

	perhaps splitting into two groups

	using the tutorial time

Something like that!

...r

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