[lopsa-discuss] formats for BoF slides/audio

[Trey Harris]

We have several BoFs from LISA for which we have PowerPoint or Keynote 
slides and audio recordings (in mp3, 96/44.1), and one for which we just 
have slides.  We would like to post these to the website quickly.

What formats would be most useful to those of you who would like to get 
the BoF content but weren't able to attend?

We can do video (what codec?) synced to the audio (what codec?), the 
original .ppt or .keynote files plus separate audio, text transcripts with 
interspersed PNG graphics of the slides (or a PDF of the same), or even 
the slides dumped into plain text outlines.  (Transcripts obviously could 
take awhile--anybody know of free/cheap stenographer software that will 
slow down mp3's for transcription?)

Please note, the "perfect" answer--"do all of it and let me choose"--is 
resource-limited (though if anybody wants to volunteer to make all the 
formats available given the source material, please do!).  I'm wondering 
what the "good enough" answer is--we want to get our message out without 
expending a huge amount of effort to do so.

Let's not turn this into a format holy war...if there's a least common 
denominator that is a) easy for the many of us who work 80 hours a week on 
servers and don't know diddly about how to make our desktops/laptops jump 
through hoops, b) accessible to the vast majority of people, and c) 
preserves as much content as possible (i.e., is graphical and aural, 
rather than just text), then it would be great to know that.  If not, some 
idea of what formats are more important than others would be good.

Keep in mind that many of the people we're trying to reach out to may be 
Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, etc., folks, so "a couple easy formats" is 
probably better than "the one true format that everyone has to install 
stuff to use."  Also note that unless people volunteer their services to 
do other formats, we can't purchase software, so we're probably limited to 
what Final Cut, iMovie, MS Office and Keynote, etc. can produce and free 
software can munge.

I know that's a lot of questions, imprecisely specified--but hey, we're 
all sysadmins, we're used to that :-)

Trey