Re: [GSAS-board] GSAS Talks Archive

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Seattle_Aquarist wrote:

> Hi Erik et al,
>
> One of our members asked if there is one GSAS web location they can go to
> access all of the Bit Torrent speaker talks that we have archived.  It
> seemed like a reasonable request, but since we don't want to make them
> available to the General Public it would obviously have to be in an area
> only accessible by our members.  Is this possible and do we want to do it?

Yes, you have outlined the points perfectly.  Technically, it's a piece of 
cake to create a webpage that indexes all the torrents.  Jesse even 
"graciously" did one last year, thinking there was a technical reason, 
before I explained the delimna.

So, how do we make something mostly-accessible by only our members? 
Maybe just obfuscate the name, publish it only in the newsletter, and 
periodically change it?  i.e., 
"http://www.gsas.org/torrents/index-wombat.html"; ?


> BTW I mentioned the DVD's that you left Erik and I think all three were sold
> for $5 each.

You mean, they were given away for $5 donations to the club. ;) That's 
very important.  I *really* don't want future speakers to be getting the 
impression we're selling them.  It cannot be a revenue stream for the 
club.  The material must always freely available to club members... copies 
always exist in the library.

Ad Konings' talk will probably be our first one in two years that we won't 
be distributing outside of the library DVD/Blu-Ray, because he falls into 
that category of folks who don't want their material getting 'out there'. 
We've been very lucky (and had lots of good local speakers who don't mind) 
for quite a while now.  Want to keep it that way...

   - Erik

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