[nylug-talk] Audio & Video of last night's Python Workshop and the General Meeting about Linux Audio with Sunny Dubey

[Ron Guerin]

Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:32:46PM -0400, Ron Guerin wrote:
> Kudos to all involved especially for the effort wrt the python meeting!

More help will make for more betterer videos!

[ snip stuff covered elsewhere ]

> So, at this stage I would think that the overall number of downloader to
> these files will number less than 5, so it seems unlikely that any of
> those folks will download it within a timeframe to allow 'seeding'.
> 
> Thus I'm not sure under what circumstance in the foreseeable future how
> it can be sustainable.

Larry went over the bulk of this already, but I wanted to touch upon
seeding and sustainability a little.  At the point where we announce the
availability of a video, it's already been seeded 2 or more times to get
the ball rolling.  Ideally, we'll get these things on at least one
server permanently, so that the stray copy here and there will always
get served up, and in a reasonably timely fashion.  That's not really
what I'm concerned about so much as the brand-new stuff where 100 people
might all want to download it during the same "short" time interval,
where I'm guessing that interval would be somewhere between a week and a
month.

For that period of time, I'd like to ask that if you download a copy of
a video, to follow the usual "politeness" rules at the least (serve out
as many bytes as you pull) and to keep their BT client up after they've
got the entire video file (seeding) for a week or so.  I have no idea
how popular these videos are going to be, so it's hard to say right now
how long people should seed for.  We'll let you know when we figure that
out.

- Ron