I understand that this topic for archiving the convention talks comes up every convention timeframe.

I also understand that it is cost prohibitive and therefore the SSA would be reluctant to do this.

So how many other alternatives are there?

1) having an audience member video and upload to YouTube has been mentioned..

2) the SSA could collect all speaker electronic presentation files and archive those at a minimum. No video, no speaker/audience commentary. But at least something is captured for the history books. Could be setup just like the magazine archive. Which yes takes time/money, but it's something. Or easier yet just a drive partition on the web server where all the files are dropped (by year, by topic) and stored there. Users could download the files at their leisure and consistent file formatting be damned. It's just ones and zeros at that point. Maybe in the future the yearly rate would go up to buy a TB of server space. Just a thought.

3) how many more ideas are out there that need to be noodled on??

Britton