[H-GEN] Videoing HUMBUG talks
Anthony Towns
aj at azure.humbug.org.au
Fri Feb 15 03:11:58 EST 2008
Hey all,
I guess everyone knows about the great videos we get of linux.conf.au
presentations now days [0]. I've been thinking it'd be neat if we did the
same thing for HUMBUG (and if other LUGs did the same), so I suggested
Linux Australia might like to cover the cost of the equipment (cameras,
microphones, tripods, whatnot) for LUGs willing to do this, and last
night they agreed...
The proposal is:
http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2008-February/016598.html
Assuming other people want to do it, not just me, what that means for
HUMBUG is:
1) we need to work out how we want to:
-- record (camera, tripod, microphone; dvd recorder, mixer, ...?)
-- encode (take the raw camera feed and make it an MPEG or OGG)
-- distribute (upload to mirror.linux.org.au?)
2) we need to get some talks organised between March and June, possibly
with the help of BrisPy or other groups
-- I'll volunteer to do a talk on coding for the Hackfest this year
(multiprocessing and vector ops on the Cell broadband engine CPU)
-- anyone else?
3) we need to make this reasonably inexpensive, and work out how
much we want to ask LA for (up to $2k) and how much we want to
use HUMBUG funds for
The suggestions on linux-aus seem to be:
- get a HDD camera with a mic input
* JVC Everio 40GB for $1184.00 seems to fit the bill [1]
- get a good tripod for maybe $300
- get some sort of microphone $???
- convert the camera's format to OGG
- upload to mirror.linux.org.au
- profit
Does anyone here know stuff about videoing talks and have something to
add? Better ways of doing it, talk ideas, thoughts, comments, etc?
Cheers,
aj
[0] http://lca2008.linux.org.au/programme/presentations
[1] http://www.camerastore.com.au/JVC+Everio+40gb+HDD+GZ%2DMG575_details.htm
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