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I really wish the Strangeloop talk videos weren't posted in an excruciatingly long timeframe. Last year's conference was in September 2012 but the last of the videos didn't appear until April 2013. 4-6 months is an eternity when you're considering the shelf life of tech conference talk content.

As someone who wasn't able to attend this year because I changed jobs a month before the meeting and had to give my ticket back to my old employer, I would gladly pay $50-$100 for a video pass if it meant getting access to the content sooner.

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I think it may be a few weeks before the video timeline is posted, but conference attendees are able to access draft videos of nearly all the talks already.

It was quite a conference, and several of the talks were really good. I too wish they posted the talks publicly sooner, but posting them through the year seems to be a very effective way to sustain buzz.

A video pass is certainly something we have talked about. The method of screencapping and doing early release is kind of "beta" but seems to have worked quite well.

Let me second the request for a video pass. I would love instant access to some of the talks. I would actually love to attend a StrangeLoop but so far that hasn't been in the cards.

I would love to hear what you (or anyone else) thinks is a "fair" rate for early access to videos (about 60) from the conference.

$10/vid is impulse purchase territory and i'd pay $100 for the lot without thinking too much about it

I'd love access as a student, but I'd only pay around $30-$40 for all of them. More than that, and I'd probably just wait until they were public.

I would pay $100 easy; more than that I might convince myself to just wait.

Honest question - do you not post the videos immediately afterwards because you think it will cannibalize attendance in the future?

Strange Loop has sold out every year and the conference is really about the people you can hang out with and the non-talk parts as much as seeing the content. So, no.

The videos are filmed and released as a partnership between Strange Loop and InfoQ. Strange Loop gets excellent videographers, professional gear (hardware screen capture devices), and on-site editing for early access release for very low cost and virtually no work. InfoQ gets eyeballs to their site. Attendees get draft videos available within days after the conference. Non-attendees get free access to almost all of the content from the conference (at a delay). Minor nits aside, this is from my perspective a win for everyone.

Part of this equation is that InfoQ wants to receive those eyeballs by dribbling out content over many months. This slow release is also a useful marketing tool for the conference (although this is less essential than in the past).

As most folks have mentioned up to about $100 would put it in my impulse buy range. If it was higher I would probably review the talk descriptions and twitter/blog reviews before I decided.

Put me down for another video pass. $100 sounds about right.

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