It was dubbed as: “A think-tank on networked audio visual media” and it sure blew some mighty big holes for the future technologists to talk about and the online communities to chew over.

Held in the The Banff Centre for the Arts over last weekend, the Synch or Stream Summit, effortlessly brought together and an impressively diverse selection “nu-meeja” types to talk, present, debate, interject and drink ... Covering issues like: streaming 3D, free arts-based, RealServer solutions, QuickTime 4 servers, Internet TV, Aboriginal community radio, Free Speech, new Internet business models, performance sequencers, privacy and rights.

I think some of the most constructive things that came out of the conference, other than getting to meet a load of very interesting people, was the extension of the community based radio networks and FM re-transmission collaborations that seemed to thirve throughout the three

days. Without publishing the complete transcript, it just leaves me to commend the event organisers for pulling off a tip-top event and that to say that the hot baths were magic.

If you want to find out what you missed and who was there, check out the list of linx below:

Banff Centre

http://www.banff.org/netav

Peter Wintonick - Virtual Film Festival.  Montreal.

http://www.worldmedia.com/archive/mc/mc.html

Honor Harger - Co-coordinator of r a d i o q u a l i a.

http://www.radioqualia.va.com.au

Martha Wilson - Franklin Furnace.  New York

http://www.franklinfurnace.org

Galinsky - Pseudo On-Line Network. New York

http://www.channelp.com

Jason Lewis - Interval Research Corp. Palo Alto, CA.

http://www.interval.com

Joseph Leon - Native America Calling. Albequerque,Mexico.

http://www.nativetelecom.org

William Rowe - proteinTV. London UK.

http://www.proteinTV.com

Thomax Kaulmann - Radio Internationale Stadt. Berlin, Germany.

http://www.orang.org

Melanie Printup Hope - Visual and Media artist. Schenectady, NY.

http://www.albany.net/~printup

Steve MacIsaac - CFUV FM University of Victoria. Victoria BC.

http://cfuv.uvic.ca

William Powell - Apple Canada. Toronto, Ontario.

http://www.apple.com

Heath Bunting, Susan Kennard, Yvanne Faught - Radio 90.  

http://www.irational.org/radio/radio90

Maizun Jayoussi - CJSW FM. Calgary, Alberta.

http://www.cjsw.com

Mark Morris - Kids OP

http://www.kidsop.com

Timothy Childs - OZ.COM

http://www.oz.com

Lynn Winebarger - University Of Indianna At Bloomington, INDIANNA

http://www.freeexpression.org