Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
>> A team of folks took videos of various talks at Linux Fest Northwest.
>> They want to offer direct downloads as an alternative to the flash based
>> streams available at ustream.tv.  I have tentatively offered (with
>> stated caveat that Infrastructure had to approve) hosting space on the/a
>> torrent server for these videos.
>>
>> I don't yet have an estimate on the total size, but there are 12~
>> videos, all somewhere around an hour in length.  It may be a while yet
>> before they're all re-encoded into our preferred format (.ogg) but I
>> wanted to get the ball rolling here.
>>
>> Is this something Fedora (Infrastructure) would be willing to provide?
> 
> So the question is does Fedora offer hosting space for linux conventions
> and things not directly related to Fedora?  I'd be curious to hear what
> others say.
> 
I'm not opposed to hosting this but perhaps phrasing the question that 
way is taking it out of our hands.  We can say "We have/don't have 
space/bandwidth/manpower to do this" but whether it's something we 
should be doing seems to be a goals question that belongs to the Board 
to decide.

PS: fedorahosted can contain things which aren't directly related to 
Fedora.  Hosting videos of linux-fest talks on the torrent server would 
be a different type of resource but not necessarily a different category 
politically.

-Toshio