PyCon recordings seem to suffer from link-rot...
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Searching for links to some of my presentations from PyCon (particularly the audio/video). Lots of links to no-longer-existing pages at PyCon.org. There's an unofficial mirror that at least covers back to 2009, but most of the older stuff seems to have black-holed.
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.
Eric Snow on 10/18/2011 12:21 a.m. #
Yeah, I wrote to the PyCon guys about this in August and they indicated that they plan on bringing the old sites back up at some point.
-eric
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Eric Snow <erics....com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have often used the sites for pycon (US) 2009 and 2010 for
> historical reasons and as a good index for the pycon videos on
> blip.tv. However, since the last time I used them (in March), those
> two years are unreachable. Is there a way they could be made
> available again? The 2011 page is also pretty messed up now. Would
> it be possible to fix it and even update the 2011 schedule (or
> whatever) to show the links to the videos, like 2009 and 2010 did?
>
Eric,
We are currently working on ramping up the 2012 site, and
migrating to a new hosting provider. We will be bringing back the 2009
and 2010 sites in a few months. Thanks for the patience and
understanding.
...
Anders Bruun Olsen on 10/18/2011 5:54 a.m. #
The AV-team from Pycon 2009-2011 has all recordings archived on http://blip.tv/pycon-us-videos-2009-2010-2011
Jesse Noller on 10/18/2011 7:55 a.m. #
http://python.mirocommunity.org/
Mike Fletcher on 10/18/2011 8:15 a.m. #
Again, I *can* find the 2009+ years, it's the stuff from 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, etc. that is missing. I know there *were* audio recordings of my descriptors talk, for instance, and I believe there were recordings of my talks on ctypes, and maybe even the one on metaclasses from *way* back... but they have disappeared.
The blip.tv site really needs a way to filter the *current* channel, btw; very hard to find a given talk in the 400 episodes...
John on 10/20/2011 11:03 a.m. #
I'm disappointed that it's no longer possible to download videos for offline viewing from _any_ era, as of a few months ago.
I suppose it's more the result of a blip.tv business decision than a Pycon AV-team decision. But it's too bad there aren't any alternative mirrors other than blip.