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[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

Live Streaming of the International Permaculture Conference (IPC10)!
Community Projects, Conferences, Courses/Workshops, 
Presentations/Demonstrations, Social Gatherings --- by Craig Mackintosh 
PRI Editor August 20, 2011

http://permaculture.org.au/2011/08/20/live-streaming-of-the-international-permaculture-conference-ipc10/


For those who cannot make it to the IPC10 in Jordan next month 
(September 2011) www.ipcon.org , my announcement here should hopefully 
be gladly received! PRI Australia has put up the funds for the 
additional equipment I needed to enable me to live-stream the 
International Permaculture Conference (IPC10) to the internet. I'll be 
live-streaming the 1-day Conference, and with a bit of luck perhaps even 
parts of the 4-day Convergence (the latter I'm not so confident about as 
I need to see if the internet connection is up to par when I physically 
get there, but from reports it's looking positive).

Even if you cannot make the exact times of the live-streams, the system 
we're using will subsequently have the streams available on-demand --- 
so you can play them later.


This will be the first time an IPC has been live-streamed. (I'm told 
there was an attempt to do this at IPC9 in Malawi, but the internet 
connection was insufficient for the task.)


Thanks for contributing so people worldwide can benefit from the IPC10
Although we're putting up the funds (the gear cost US$528, or AU$508), 
we would greatly appreciate those who are able to donate something to 
contribute towards it. I'm sure there are many out there who don't have 
the time and/or spare money to attend the event in person, but who will 
appreciate at least being able to tune in on the Conference (which will 
have some very interesting speakers and topics). If these people could 
consider that whilst we could have made it pay-per-view, we've chosen 
not to in the hope the permie fair-share principle will come to play and 
people would voluntarily help us out here as they are able.

Additionally, the PRI will actually divert all your donations for this 
equipment to the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka 'Greening the 
Desert -- the Sequel'), to aid in the continued development of this 
important demonstration site. (A few updates on the project from over 
the last year are here, here, here and here in case this interests, and 
you can find out all about the background of this project here.)

You are invited to please donate via the widget above. Thanks for your 
support!

Oh, for those who just realised you're getting left behind on the 
biggest permaculture event on the planet, there's still time to get in 
on the action and experience it first hand.

Go here to book your place on the IPC10 
http://ipcon.org/index.php/booking-form