Hey I am at the ACM conference right now. ACM is the Alliance for Community Media. This year the annual conference is in Boston. Mark you calendars next year it is in Minneapolis. It will be more towards the middle of July around the 17th I think. It has been great meeting access professionals and producers from all around the country. We had a session talking about the Legislation that has been going through both the House and the Senate. It seems that the Net Neutrality issue will be the downfall of the Senate bill. The Senate majority leader doesn’t want to risk a filibuster so he won’t bring it up in the Senate unless assured that the sixty votes are there. Right now that doesn’t look likely. We should still be talking with our Senators and Congress people to make sure they understand the funding Community Television is important.
Other sessions I have sat in include a way to transcode programs into MPEG 2 then onto formats that would make it possible to either have it vodcast or podcast. Some interesting stuff out their right now. It seems to be the issues bandwidth and storage space. It looks like all kinds of things are possible.
Boston has been a great city to visit. I have never been here before. There is lots of history. I walked part of the freedom trail, Rode the “T”, walked around Boston Common- which is one of the oldest public parks est. in 1644 I believe. My husband is flying in on Saturday and we are going to Salem, Concord and Lexington and down to Cape Cod. I am looking forward to that.
That is all I have time for right now, hope to update letter on this week.
