[llvm-dev] Euro LLVM videos finally online - proposal to use torrents for sharing

[Jonathan Roelofs via llvm-dev]

On 9/8/15 4:13 PM, Sean Silva via llvm-dev wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
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>     On Sep 8, 2015, at 12:26 PM, Renato Golin via llvm-dev
>     <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
>     >
>     > On 8 September 2015 at 19:20, Tanya Lattner <tonic at nondot.org <mailto:tonic at nondot.org>> wrote:
>     >> Youtube has been discussed in the past but we have usually defaulted to
>     >> mainly hosted onllvm.org <http://llvm.org> and then a copy could potentially be on
>     YouTube. I
>     >> would want this to be an official posting though.
>     >
>     > Youtube is used by many foundations and conferences out there as the
>     > official channel for their presentations, tutorial videos, outreach,
>     > etc.
>     >
>     > It can also be embedded in web pages, and there are good builtin
>     > plugins for all mobile platforms and browsers. It's not as easy to
>     > make an mp4 work out of the box in a way that you hope it would.
>     >
>     > I don't see a problem in hosting the videos *in addition* to having
>     > them in a CDN, but especially because Youtube is free and ubiquitous,
>     > anything else (maybe apart from Vimeo) would be less ideal, especially
>     > if they require plugins for browsers or mobiles, even if they're free.
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>     Anything that doesn’t *offer* a download option (breaking ToS is not
>     an option) shouldn't be considered as the primary hosting IMO, which
>     disqualify Youtube IIUC their ToS.
>
>     Tanya's proposal seems nice: having the video hosted by llvm.org
>     <http://llvm.org> and mirrored to Youtube would be a good tradeoff.
>

Preferably also with a note nearby saying that people linking to 
HN/reddit/slashdot should use the CDN version, rather than the llvm.org 
version... it's not fun when that kind of DDoS brings down the services 
we need for development.


Jon

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> +1
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> -- Sean Silva
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>     Mehdi
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