[H-GEN] Videoing HUMBUG talks

[Peter Robinson]

FYI,
At UQ we are currently trialling Lectopia for recording lectures. At the 
moment this is a capture of audio and whatever the data projector gets.
We are told that maybe by the end of the year there will also be some 
cameras in some lecture theatres.

This is aimed at courses and is managed through blackboard :(
I am told one-off recordings can be made.

Peter


Anthony Towns wrote:
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> Hey all,
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> 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:
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>    http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2008-February/016598.html
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> Assuming other people want to do it, not just me, what that means for
> HUMBUG is:
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>    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
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> [0] http://lca2008.linux.org.au/programme/presentations
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> [1] http://www.camerastore.com.au/JVC+Everio+40gb+HDD+GZ%2DMG575_details.htm
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