[Chapter-delegates] Why was the Live Streaming+ service terminated? -was- Chapter Advice on live streaming

[Winthrop Yu]

Thank you Luis and Joly, if i may (trailing thread snipped for focus) ...

All of us have been repeatedly reminded that this was an operational decision 
(Comms) and that the Board should not directly intervene in operational 
minutiae. Nevertheless, the Board as well as all ISOC members would do well to 
review the decisions and actions taken by the previous administration in order 
to gain a good assessment of the performance of that administration, remedy any 
shortcomings, and do better moving forward, correct?

Joly and others have provided details on the excellent work he did and is still 
doing for ISOC. Joly (like Raj who was removed at about the same time) did 
yeoman-like work for the global organization over years, efficient and superb 
value for money, and for far less cost to ISOC than if, for example, that job 
had been contracted-out to an outfit like salesforce.com (vide: Fonteva).

Thus i am wondering at this point if further cataloging of Joly's work will help 
matters? We may again be led on a merry chase after details. And, at the end of 
the day, we may again simply be fobbed-off with: "it was an operational decision".

Perhaps it would be better to ask ourselves why Joly (and Raj, and Rinalia) were 
terminated? The usual answer given is "cost-cutting", but then HQ staff 
(directly under close administrative control) has been augmented and there have 
been huge expenditures such as Fonteva (not to mention the "gift"when MANRS was 
given away).

What really drove those operational/administrative "cost-cutting" decisions?

Food for thought,

WYn

On 25/09/2024 10:59 AM, Luis Miguel M Martinez via Chapter-delegates wrote:
> Hi Joly,
>
> Thanks for this important information, effectively looks as a well organized 
> project covering phases like planning, managing, executing and archiving. I 
> wonder if you have records on how many events/video you have information about 
> ? (at least, date, place and title).
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Luis
>
>
> On 24 Sep 2024 17:46 -0600, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com>, wrote:
>>
>> Hi Luis,
>>
>> Thanks for your insight. And, indeed, when I was originally retained by the 
>> COO Todd Tolbert, one of his primary instructions along with fielding 
>> livestream support requests were to consolidate the various threads of ISOC 
>> community media activity into an easily accessible archive. The scope of work 
>> in my contracts from 2015-2018 read:
>>
>> *Project Title: ISOCCast – Webcasting, Video Content Capture and Coordination*
>> *
>> *
>> *Description of Tasks and Requirements:
>>
>> • Coordinate with the Events team on identified ISOC events to understand 
>> location,
>> capabilities and needs as pertains to webcasting, video content capture, or 
>> interactive
>> video conferencing requirements.
>> • Coordinate with the departments / groups who are holding the events to 
>> understand the
>> goals and the needs from a webcasting, video content capture, or interactive 
>> video
>> conferencing point of view.
>> • Provide human and technology resources to accomplish the scope of work 
>> outlined.
>> • Manage post-production of captured content, to make sure that a great body 
>> of video is
>> posted for use after the event. This may entail Contractor to do video 
>> editing directly, or
>> manage the process with another internal or external resource.
>> • Curate the video content both from a posting standpoint for our 
>> communities, but also in
>> an internal view, tagging content appropriately that users within the 
>> organization can find
>> pieces they may be looking for.
>> • Assist internal staff and external constituents with requests for pieces of 
>> content that
>> ISOC may have in our own video library.
>> • Take a hands-on role in some situations as either a production resource or 
>> on-site
>> production coordinator managing other resources doing the streaming / capturing.
>> • Coordinate chapter webcast/live stream setup in the channel ISOC provides.*
>> *
>> *
>> After Todd departed, I was nominally transferred to Comms, under Dan York. I 
>> actually worked without a contract for a couple of years, until Kristi Mason 
>> came on board. I don't have a contract from the latter period, They were 
>> Docusign and have disappeared into the ether, but I suspect they were 
>> limited to direct livestream support, without any of the post-production stuff.
>>
>> Joly
>>
>> <snip>
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