Problem:

• To make a VideoBridge happen, you need certain components of infrastructure. It is not easy to make these working in a new place.

• Use certain locations regularly for VideoBridge events reduces both stress and costs.
• Target once a month or more often.
• Have a stationary high-bandwidth internet connection (2-4 Mbit in both directions).
• Keep the equipment and service providers at hand. "Never change a winning team".

Statements:

• Stress factors with new locations:
• Providers that are late in providing the internet access
• Lack of connection quality
• Routers or firewalls that do not cooperate nicely with the streaming equipment used.
• Testing happens too late, ... (let's say it should happen a week before the first event).
• because problems are underestimated
• because of the costs of separate early testing
• One should think about the minimum requirement of a vb location
• One might think about the optimum configuration
• e. g. it seems desirable to have minimum costs but be flexible in the size of the event. 15 people should not feel lost in space, if you can have 70-200 people, you can create a larger local impact. A flexible room concept would be great.