[H-GEN] AV equipement for HUMBUG

[matheist76 at westnet.com.au]

The main reason is that we would like to film the talks that we have. Say that we have a basic tutorial 
of Python (which is beginning to be really important to HUMBUG's website) then we can film the talks and 
post them up. Or we could save them to disk. This we would add to the other resources that should be on 
the wiki. 

There is space on the current Talk's section of the HUMBUG website to place a link to that talk but we would 
need to find someone willing to host the video.

It would also provide a good proving ground for the AV equipment that we would be using for LCA. This has been
for some LCA's a really big let down. I would like to avoid egg on my face.

I also believe that we shouldn't need to go for an expensive piece of equipment. So the cost may be minimal. At any rate there is really no harm into looking at AV equipment. 

If Clinton is right then we might be able to get LA to pay for it which would be a big bonus.   

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Black" <gjb at yaxom.com>
To: matheist76 at westnet.com.au
Cc: "general" <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Monday, 1 June, 2009 9:07:38 PM GMT +10:00 Brisbane
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] AV equipement for HUMBUG

On 2009-06-01, matheist76 at westnet.com.au wrote:

> We in the exec are looking at possibly getting AV equipment. We need a
> suitable video camera. Something that will work with Linux of
> course. I'm also interested about what software works best to record
> and compress the videos. So what I'm after is your experiences with AV
> equipment and the related software.

Um, why do we "need" this kind of equipment?  It's generally expensive
and Humbug is a very low budget organisation.  I certainly can't imagine
that it would be worth whatever it costs.  Perhaps I'm just not seeing
some wonderful benefit.

Cheers, Greg