On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 15:11 +0200, Herman Robak wrote: > Wishes to the DC8 orga team: > > * Have a complete schedule ready by the beginning of Debcamp This, I am afraid, is probably unrealistic. > ** Rescheduling must be communicated to the video team in due time This would be good, though, and I expect that some sort of notification can be added to Pentabarf somehow. We did get a team scheduling system integrated with Pentabarf, which was extremely useful. > * Good video tripods for all the cameras that need to move during talks > (tripods are bulky; I can only bring one...) Yes! And we will have some money for this. > * Be ready to provide one cameraperson for each BoF. The video team > will strive to reduce BoF coverage to panning, zooming and the push > of a button on a grabbing laptop. Lighting in BoF rooms is quite variable and seems to defeat auto-exposure. (Even worse, sometimes people try to put the room in darkness to present slides!) I always found myself using or wanting to use manual exposure control. > * Don't throw parties in the talk rooms, unless you want to induce > ulcers and fury among video team members next morning! Or don't start anything early the next morning. Once we have worked out how to set out a room, an hour should be enough to do it again. <snip> > * Constant recording by default. Recording is the "safe" operation, > stopping it is risky. We had constant recording, except when there was too much contention for the file server's disk. (To avoid this, I think we should record to local disk during the day and transfer to a file server later.) Constant recording made more work for reviewers, and the lack of feedback from the 'cut' command was itself a problem. > * Extending dvswitch to remote-control the sources and the sinks, > and monitor them for status. Yes, I think it would be useful to allow some sources and sinks to work as daemons and have dvswitch connect to them instead of vice versa. > * "Playout"/"autopilot" in dvswitch, that instructs the banner > dvsource to play a banner specific for the upcoming talk, and > switches to preset sources (e.g. speaker cam) when the talk is due. This is a bit risky as we cannot rely on events to start on time. <snip> > * Full-resolution streams, ensuring legible slides (optional, of course) <snip> If a slide is not readable at 320x240, it probably isn't readable at the back of the room either. Speakers should be reminded to use large text. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source
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