Re: [guadec-list] Wireless Guadec

[Andy Wingo <wingo pobox com>]

Heya heya,

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 13:32 +0200, Ramon Navarro Bosch wrote:
> > We're not planning on streaming any talks except perhaps the keynotes - I'd rather we got some volunteers to focus on making good recordings of each seesion, then transcoding and uploading for people to browse easily some time (2 months?) after GUADEC.
> 
> We can handle streaming the keynotes ( as I think about 1 at the same
> time ? ) We can use andy tutorial or vlc. Andy are you going to come
> this year ?

If you want to use VLC that's cool. Flumotion is also possible, but use
what you know. I'm coming (need to book tix!), will be available for
help, but am taking the year off from the perspective of
responsibility ;)

>From what I have heard and understand, video streaming (1) does not have
a lot of resources allocated to it, and (2) is not very important to the
target audience (gnome devs) relative to having good video archives. In
some ways, good archives and live streaming work at cross-purposes.

I have the feeling that the current GUADEC organizers have adopted a
"hopeful" approach to video archives. I could be wrong. But I think that
if video archives are desired (yes!) then the local guadec team should
organize the equipment now. Cameras, and ideally computers at the
cameras running dvgrab. DV tape is also acceptable. There are personnel
issues to getting the videos transcoded and uploaded; someone needs to
become responsible for this (organizing that for the N rooms, someone is
responsible for uploading transcoded videos).

Peace,

Andy.
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