I do not think that is even possible but at any rate, what I meant was that it may only be available through COG. ??
Bear in mind that this whole thing was a suggestion / question from a member and no one has acted on it that I know of. So first of all, the most likely thing that comes out of any of this is.... nothing.
If someone does video a seminar(s), that person could do with it whatever he / she wished to the best of my knowledge. As I am unfamiliar with Webcast or 'video broadcasting across the Internet' in general, I don't know where / how such a video stream would be uploaded. Such a video stream may be open to the public. On the other hand, should COG initiate such a video stream, they would also control the output and that may be limited to anything / anyone they please but logic says that it would be COG members if it is restricted. I of course am not speaking for COG or any other entity, just mentioning what has been mentioned (casually at that) and speculating on what might be happening.
What I am slightly concerned about is that this might (or has?) turned sideways into a COG / non- COG thing and it is not. What I am talking about are seminars held during COG rallies and as far as I know, anyone, including non- COG members, can attend as long as the event fee is paid, which COG members also have to pay (although at a discount). COG is a very open community generally; I do not think I have heard of any events that COG has held that are not open to the public. What is exclusive to COG are things like the Concourier (the organization's magazine), technical articles, previously published technical data, etc. And to be honest, I support that policy because there must be something available to dues paying members or.... why would anyone pay dues? In a different light, spreading all information from COG to the general public puts dues paying members in the odd and frankly undesirable position of actually paying to support other, non- dues paying people.
So to sum up: 1) there is no conflict that I am aware of or can see between COG and any other individual or organization (such as this forum). 2) We are talking about a theoretical event that is not even particularly likely to happen in the first place IMO, and no one has any idea how it would be displayed if it did actually happen.
I am not and cannot speak for COG, these are just my thoughts and opinions. And Kirby's as well. His opinions used to differ a bit but three days without food and now he sees things my way....
And besides all that, I am pro- COG and encourage everyone who owns a Concours to join. There are member benefits but the biggest single one for me are the social gatherings, especially the regional rallies (usually one in the Spring and Fall). Great bunch of people in my area and I really enjoy hanging around with them. There are National rallies annually also and while I've only been to one so far, they are a lot of fun and pretty informative too (seminars and so forth). Lots of local stuff happens all year also- in a couple of weeks we will be having Tech Day in Massachusetts which is my favorite event and we even make some progress working on people's bikes, all by mistake of course :-)
Brian
Based on Brian's comments it may be restricted to COG members only.
