On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 16:53 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > > How about 20:00 UTC? > > I've been mostly offline this last few days. Sorry! That's about 10am > Tuesday here, perfect for me. > > Last year we did record a bit of video with mooch, but we never got to > the editing. I did some basic editing/cleanup of the 'old days' chat > with Ian and Bdale, but there wasn't much interest. > Who has the tapes from this? I'd love to get a copy. If it's just a few hours of mini-DV tape I could make a copy at Debconf5. If it's quite a bit of material I could take it home and mail it back later. > However, I think that the most valuable thing we can do is to record > the presentations to stream them live and to offer them for download > later. If we have volunteers, transcripts would be ideal, because they > make the presentations google-able. > If it can be made to work reliably, live streaming + recording sounds great. I have two cameras, two tripods, and one wireless microphone I can bring to Debconf. Both cameras are cheap NTSC mini-DV firewire models. One has a microphone input but doesn't work with Linux. The other has no microphone input but works well with Linux. > Cool videos, while cool, take a lot of work and have limited > usefulness outside the 'marketing' aspect. > Very true. Dumping, editing, rendering, mastering, testing, and burning a two hour DVD from two camera sources using free software takes me a full day when there are no problems along the way. It's an incredible amount of work for something that sounds quick and easy. If the equipment I have will be useful to the effort, I'll gladly help out. If it will not be useful, I'd still like to set it up for recording on my own if it's allowed. It doesn't hurt to have a backup plan. John
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