The Video Situation

(picture courtesy Dave Fisher, photo CC BY NC SA)

We’ve been getting lots of questions about video from the conference. Luckily, the various ROFLCon-Respectably French camera crews swarming around the event doing streaming also were simultaneously capturing the entire conference in hundred and hundred of delicious gigabytes of video for posterity. So if you didn’t catch a few panels you really wanted to, or need to show your lame friend who didn’t go something: rest assured, it’ll be available soon.

The good news: true to our Free Culture stripes, it’s going to be all released on a CC BY SA license, which means you’re free to share it, copy it, remix it, or use it for whatever gawd dang thing you please, so long as you credit it (and let people do the same).

The less exciting news: Dean and our video guys are meeting up over the weekend/next week to discuss the best way of posting this. Needless to say, it’s alot of material, so we’re working out hosting issues. Expect some delays (though we’ll alert everyone when it’s all good to go). There’ll be clips popping up over here in the immediate future, so stay tuned…

[Update: it’s also been pointed out to me right now that searching YouTube brings up a bunch of partial video recorded at the event (and almost the entirety of the Anonymous panel. And, of course, there’s always the odd clip or two on our flickr pool]

Get Ready for ROFLCon with Gunther

Can’t get enough of internet Celebrity and in the Cambridge area? ROFLCon partner Respectably French will be bringing Gunther to Harvard’s Quincy Courtyard from 12:30-1:30 this Wednesday.

If you don’t know about Swedish “musician” Gunther, well, suffice it to say, he touches the ROLFCon team’s collective tra la la.

ROFLCon to be filmed

Depressed that you missed ROFLCon registration? Can’t make it across the Atlantic to catch a glimpse of Tron Guy? Torn between two multi-streaming panels? Have no fear! ROFLCon has teamed up with Harvard sketch comedy group Respectably French to produce full footage of the conference. All footage will be released with Creative Commons licenses (CC-BY-SA), which means we’re encouraging you to share and remix the conference video.

Where Rubber Chickens Roam Free: The Rockstars of Wexley

This is the view from the Wexley School for Girls. As previously noted, the Wexley School for Girls is not, in fact, a school for girls. It’s an outrageous new-media marketing firm in Seattle. Weird, right?

Not only is Wexley a magical place where rubber chickens roam free, it’s also home to a couple of total rockstars who have been helping us left and right. They’ll be showing up on the Kid, We’re Gonna Make You a Star panel, so get ready to be blinded by excellence.

Anyway, we’ve known for a while that the entire ROFLTeam has a huge crush on Wexley, and no one’s got it worse than me. So imagine how I felt, two weeks ago, when Katie and Kristen gave me and Rachel the grand tour!

Cliffhanger (how did I feel?!?) resolved after the jump, but in the meantime, I have one very important thing to say. Wexley’s hinted that they’re interested in organizing a meetup (drinkup, perhaps?) during ROFLCon for all you marketing types. Details forthcoming, but, you know: forewarned is forearmed, and also, how exciting is this?

It is very exciting. Stay tuned.

After the jump: another picture, and a few more words…

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