Re: Details for our 2nd BoF room

[Benjamin Somers <benjamin.somers@resel.fr>]

> We have too many talks with good rating, and in the Content team we decided
> to convert one more room for BoF scheduling. This extra, fourth parallel
> room is _not_ going to have video coverage, but we were discussing that
> some BoF sessions count on having some remote participation.

I thought you already had 2 BoF rooms, one filmed and one not filmed. Am I missing something?

> So, our question is: For the 2nd, non-video-covered BoF room: Can we set up
> a system for making a best-effort videoconf setting? This is, we would
> need:
> 
> - A computer where a presentation can be made from
> - With an external microphone, which we can locate close to the
>  loudspeaker, or that can "decently" pick up the ambient sound
> - With external loudspeakers so that BoF attendees can follow what remote
>  participants say
> 
> So, local team: Can this be arranged?


Doesn’t seem like a local team issue to me, more a video team one.
If it’s really a local team issue, it’s pretty low on my priority queue; we may find the right hardware but I’m not owning the issue.