Live and All present conference?

How difficult would it be to have a real professional conference with everybody meeting and presenting papers on the various aspects of airships?

This would provide;

1. A larger opportunity for peer review.

2. The ability to start a publication ( "The Proceedings of the Small Airship Forum").

3. The ability to attract new members.

It would be cool, but it might be expensive if you are talking about meeting in one location. Money for travel and logging might be more productive in other areas. 

It would be cool to put out a publication. It would be a job though. Maybe once every month or two.

Ne always need new members. Anything that could increase our numbers should be considered.

Typically conferences meet every one to two years depending on the rate of work done in the area. So the publications represent a significant amount of work. You would probably divide the subject matter up into categories of interest. Like;

1. Historical practices that are applicable to current effort,

2. Simulation and modeling efforts,

3. Current progress,

4. Applicable new technology,

and

5. Future directions ( current unsolved problems)

The cost thing could be overcome by expanding the current conference idea. You could go to a video skype with the Mikogo and host it on a Saturday for a full day. This way the video from the conference could be captured as each person made a presentation, and saved in a video database for reference and tutorial uses.

We could do videos of presentations and post them on youtube. That could advance the stated goals to a large extent. It would generate publicity for our group, our goals, and hopefully bring in some new members.

We don't have to do them all at once. We can incorporate them into the conferences or post them one at a time. 

Don't you have to convert a regular video ( say *.mp4 ) to *.flv prior to U-tubing it? I don't think they use a common format.

This article says they accept several formats. 

• AVI (Windows Media Video)
• .3GP (cell phones)
• .MOV (mac)
• .MP4 (ipod/psp)
• .MPEG or .MPG (Motion Picture Experts Group)
• .FLV (adobe flash)
• .SWF (shockwave flash)
• .M4V (h.264)
• .WMV (Windows Media Video)

Does MIKOGO allow video presentations or is it just PowerPoint type?

It allows you to view another person's computer screen. So you can present anything.