London Perl & Raku Workshop 2024: Recordings & Thoughts
Recordings of all talks from this year's London Perl & Raku Workshop are now available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxNdCz2kBhVlzbVFcjwY6GkQf4zBhvwFn.
The sound quality of the recordings is not fantastic. We had some sort of issue that I've tried to fix in post. However, the auto generated captions by YouTube tend to be pretty good these days, so enable those if you have any problems understanding the speaker.
I go into the details a bit more about this in a personal blog post about the event, and how much effort is involved in trying to create the recordings, amongst other things.
Thanks to this year's sponsors, without whom LPW would not have happened:
The London Perl & Raku Workshop is a free one-day technical conference for anyone interested in Perl 5, Raku, and related topics.
It is on Saturday 26th October 2024 in central London. Check out the workshop site for more information
Thanks for the videos!
I empathize with the complexity of video, and it's why I don't do video. Changing a small mistake takes so much time compared to editing a text file.
One of the YouTubers I follow did a behind-the-scenes thing for his channel. Every hour of content takes 500 man-hours with a team of 8 or so people (although some of those are researchers, not video people). It's not exactly hidden, but the people you think are doing great videos have teams making them look good.
I always felt bad for the volunteer video teams at Perl conferences because it's a huge job where you can only screw it up. And, we only get volunteer teams because, as you note, commercial teams are very expensive. Even then, for what we would get, there's not much extra value.
O'Reilly tried video series for a bit, but they just pointed a camera at a person. It's one of the reasons I didn't do video for them (and the other being that Peter Scott was already doing that for them).
Still, some video, whatever the quality, of live events is better than nothing.
Unfortunately, the word for the audio quality is far from "not fantastic". It is closer to "totally unlistenable, and might best be described as a waste of storage space unless it can somehow be rescued.
Some recordings are better than others.
I think I will be taking brian d foy's approach - i.e. I won't be recording any more Perl/Raku events in the future.