On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 18:21 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 14:42 -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm about to start turning the Final Report into a nice piece of > > scribus work, to turn it into a an awesome PDF to show sponsors and > > attendees, and some bits are missing: > > > > * Fundraising (Steve) > > * Video team (Holger & Womble2) > [...] > > I started on this but haven't got very far. I'll send what I've got to > you later this evening. Here's my text. Holger or others may want to add to or correct some of this; in particular, the description of audio is lacking, and the volunteers deserve more thanks. Ben. The video team continued to build on the experience of existing members while recruiting new volunteers to work for nothing more than a video team T-shirt. As usual, we provided live video streams and also recorded events for later viewing. This year we published over 50 hours of video covering 76 events. Unlike the hotel in Mar del Plata, the venue did not provide staff to support A/V. However we were free to arrange furniture, cables and equipment ourselves. The second talk room was designed as a video theatre and had limited lighting controls, so it was a challenge to light the speaker without also lighting the screen and making it unreadable. Sometimes we succeeded in this; sometimes not. Instead of recording directly to a file server, we set up each room's video mixer to record to local files and then moved the files to the file server after each half-day of recording. This change meant that we no longer required the network team to set up a separate video network, and that recordings could be reviewed and transcoded at any time of day. The video team now has a good set of audio equipment, with which we recorded high quality audio for most events as well as providing PA in the main talk room. During the 'Accessibility and Debian' talk we were able to mix in speech synthesiser output directly from Sam's laptop. Some mistakes we made that we should correct next year: - We didn't get all the 'cheat sheets' ready, so new members made mistakes and had to ask a lot of questions that we could have answered in advance. - There was not enough time to update the Pentabarf video code during DebCamp, so we could not make some enhancements to the video workflow. We need to work on this in advance. - We decided to reuse video tapes once we knew we had good recordings on disk, but we didn't set up a process for this. We ran out of tapes and sometimes had to reuse them without checking. -- Ben Hutchings Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
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