rannthal wrote:Let me try to clear the water about regional conferences.
Thank you for your clarifications. Please continue to clarify if you are able.
rannthal wrote:The first 30 minutes of the regional conference, the stakes are to use the webcasting system to broadcast their local business to any remote buildings.
This conflicts with the instructions stake presidents received concerning the local portion of the broadcast, although granted, many stakes tried to stream anyway.
The instructions to stake presidents, if the conference was held in multiple locations, were that a counselor in the stake presidency or an assigned high councilor "will preside and conduct" in each location in order to handle the local stake business. Additionally, prayers, hymns, speakers, musical numbers, prelude and postlude music should be provided "in each location." Based on those instructions, I do not envision the need for a local stream, as nice as it would be.
rannthal wrote:The second part of the regional conference is broadcasted from a single place. This broadcast DOES NOT USE the webcasting system. It is an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT system and is in NO WAY CONNECTED with webcasting.
Good to know and clarifies one of the earlier questions. Thanks.
rannthal wrote:These instructions were sent out to the stake presidencies that were involved in the regional conferences.
Except that as I mentioned, stake presidents were
not instructed to stream the first 30 minutes of the local portion of the conference.
rannthal wrote:For those who experienced problems with the first 30 minutes, I apologize. Please see the above note. I will also post on a separate thread some work-arounds/tricks that could be used to get around problems.
I am all in favor of being able to stream the first 30 minutes of the conference. I say that personally, and realize full well that it conflicts with the current direction from headquarters regarding regional conferences. Therefore, I feel I may need to speedily repent.
And perhaps this is the clarification that really needs to be sent out to stake leaders for the next regional conference.
Another suggestion I have is that if the reservations are going to overtax the local system, perhaps there is a way that they can be rejected and not approved. Or perhaps a reservation would only be accepted for a stake that was not a part of the regional conference.
If the reservation is not accepted, someone such as bspittle would not have been in the pickle of finding out at the last minute that he could not get the local conference to his 13th location (and any others to which a high councilor was not able to travel that morning). And he could have petitioned for a special exemption to obtain a valid reservation based on the circumstances of his particular stake.