Coordinated Regional Video Archiving..

[Petey]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Hosting for these videos is being donated, AFAIK.

For SOAP, ok. I was referring to other things.

I don't begrudge anyone hosting their own video! I'm just talking about using resources.

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

I thought I should bring this discussion over here too. Watch the video and you will see how much Google is trying to help us, lets all spend the time to upload the video to YouTube as well as SOAP so we can get more publicity for FIRST. SOAP is perfect for our more 'internal' uses, but its not ideal as a publicity tool. This is where YouTube comes in, there are millions of users of there, many of whom will stumble upon our great competition.

Right. I was up in the Sam Adams booth on Saturday talking to Dean about the benefits/problems of integrating FIRST with YouTube. For instance, most high schools block YouTube. And if you want to catch people with a viral meme, than how do you take 6 weeks of FIRST and construct something that will compel the viewer to up and drive to comp in a video that must be less than a minute or two? I'm working on figuring that out but darn if it isn't difficult.

Originally Posted by Joel J.

What I'm pushing for is to get everything uploaded to SOAP, and for the other outlets to then get their footage from that one, central, location (SOAP). I really don't want to abandon the idea of having everything on SOAP. With a Mozilla plug-in (Download Them all) its really not that hard to get the footage from SOAP's site, once its up.

Again--did BAE give you guys the clearance to disseminate that? I'm getting my tape but I need to know this.