RE: [council] FW: Recording Santiago DNSO Constituency Meetings

[Theresa Swinehart <Theresa.Swinehart@wcom.com>]

Ben,

I can try to catch up with you regarding this. However, I'd like to also
hear from the others regarding this if they believe this is helpful and
useful, I can't speak on behalf of all the folks, and think their input
would be useful.

Theresa

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-council@dnso.org [mailto:owner-council@dnso.org] On Behalf Of
Ben Edelman
Sent:	Sunday, August 22, 1999 9:26 AM
To:	council@dnso.org
Subject:	[council] FW: Recording Santiago DNSO Constituency Meetings

I never heard back from anyone on the message below.

Have indeed brought 6+ handheld cassette recorders and plenty of extra-long
audio cassettes and spare batteries.  But all Berkman staff present in
Santiago will be otherwise engaged (setting up the main auditorium and
generally preparing for the full webcast, remote participation, etc.) during
the constituency meetings -- won't be able to flip tapes every 60 minutes,
assure that the recorders are well placed, etc.

If one of you can take care of contacting me (email is best, or leave a
message for me at the Crowne Plaza in Santiago), arranging to pick up the
recorders and supplies, and having each constituency meeting recorded, the
prior offer to digitize and post the recordings still stands.  (And recall
that we're prepared to do that "in our spare time" at no cost!)  But, if no
one comes forward to do same, I fear it won't be done...

Ben Edelman


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Edelman [mailto:edelman@law.harvard.edu]
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 11:14 AM
To: council@dnso.org
Subject: Recording Santiago DNSO Constituency Meetings


If desired, the Berkman Center can digitize and host RealAudio recordings of
the DNSO Constituency meetings in Santiago.  That's an easy enough task for
us that we'd happily do it at no charge, but to do so we'll need recordings
of the meetings themselves.

We'll have a number of handheld tape recorders and plenty of analog tape
with us in Santiago, but our experience in Berlin suggests that the
miniature microphones in handheld tape recorders are not adequate for
recording even relatively small discussions.  Thus, if these sessions are
thought to be important enough to be worth recording and posting online,
some effort should perhaps be made to assure high-quality recordings --
presumably through the arrangement of several full-size microphones and
associated mixing and amplification equipment in each constituency meeting
room.


Ben Edelman
Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Harvard Law School