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VidCon: User Generated Conference

2010-04-24 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Projects · announcement promotion

Hank explains that VidCon's unprogrammed Sunday, July 11, will be user-generated conference content and asks viewers to propose activities as video responses on the VidCon channel, then answers questions on food (not provided) and parking ($12 a day).

What is said

00:00:00 — VidCon will be streamed live for those who cannot come; why only two days are programmed: Sunday, July 11, will be user-generated conference content

  • ★★ Hank apologizes to those who cannot attend VidCon; the event will be streamed live online so they can be there virtually. — 00:00:00 · VidCon
  • ★★★ Asked why VidCon runs July 9-11 but has only two days of programming, Hank says the Sunday, the 11th, is meant to be user-generated conference content. — 00:00:00 · VidCon > «user-generated conference content»

00:00:40 — What VidCon has for Sunday (space, AV, maybe a budget, dedicated people); deciding in advance rather than on the spot, so Hank asks now

  • ★★ For Sunday VidCon has a convention space, audio-visual supplies, maybe a small budget, and many people dedicated to the online video community. (hedged) — 00:00:40 · VidCon
  • ★★ Rather than deciding on the spot at the conference, the organizers decided lead time and preparation would be better, so Hank is asking for ideas now. (hedged) — 00:00:40

00:01:09 — Example ideas: open mic, poetry slam, Molly Lewis's Calvinball room, flash mobs, the world's largest circle of people videotaping each other

  • ★★ Hank floats ideas for the Sunday: a VidCon/YouTube open mic session, a poetry slam (if those aren't lame now), flash mobs, or the world's largest circle of people videotaping each other. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:09 · YouTube
  • ★★ Molly Lewis, as Hank quotes her, says VidCon needs to set up a room just for Calvinball. — 00:01:09
  • ★ Hank explains Calvinball, a no-rules ball game from the mind of a child of the brothers of Calvin and Hobbes, and says it sounds like a pretty good time. (playful) — 00:01:09

00:01:38 — How to submit: video responses on the youtube.com/vidcon version of this video; most-liked ideas most likely; the Shane Dawson hair example of an impractical idea

  • ★★★ Hank asks viewers to leave their ideas as video responses to the version of this video at youtube.com/vidcon, not the vlogbrothers one, and get people to like them; most-liked ideas are most likely to happen. — 00:01:38 · VidCon, YouTube, Vlogbrothers
  • ★ Impractical ideas, like 45 minutes of Shane Dawson touching his hair, probably won't make the cut, but innovative ideas for the people and space will be accepted. (playful) (hedged) — 00:02:07

00:02:38 — Question two: VidCon will not provide food; cheap food for sale and a Starbucks; hotel food prices

  • ★★ VidCon will not provide food; cheap food such as sandwiches will be for sale and there is a Starbucks in the lobby. At a hotel conference the hotel serves food at outrageous prices; covering it would have meant charging about $400. — 00:02:38 · VidCon

00:03:07 — Question three: parking is $12 a day for attendees, not $35; sign-off

  • ★★ Parking is not $35: VidCon attendees get parking for $12 a day instead of $35 a day, which Hank still finds ridiculously expensive. — 00:03:07 · VidCon

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