[Osmf-talk] Transcripts? Re: Next OSMF board meeting this Thursday, 16th of August, at 21:00 London time

[Rory McCann]

On 20/08/18 10:11, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> On Monday 20 August 2018, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
>>
>> I would like to note that while I am interested in attending these
>> board meetings, as someone living in the Far East, these meetings
>> take place during really inconvenient times.
 >
> Maybe since the open board meetings are now well established we could
> discuss the possibility to publish recordings of the meetings.

IIRC the meetings are recorded for internal note taking purposes. One 
intermediate option is to pay someone to transcribe them, and publish 
the transcripts, rather than the actual audio.

There are plenty of services for transcriptions (e.g. charging $1 per 
minute), and we have oodles of pineapple fund money. As well as helping 
people in different timezone to me, it would be useful for deaf people, 
or those without great English listening skills, and open the 
possibility to translate the transcripts into other languages, something 
harder with just the audio.

We could throw money at the problem today and try it out? For <$500 we 
could try this for 4-6 months?

Rory