Re: [Debconf-video] [Debconf10-localteam] [video] CRF staff meeting, 2010-06-04
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 04:37:09PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:01:00AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> > - CRF will help with A/V in the rooms
> > - They will get staff to show us how to work the consoles and ensure
> > that we can do what we need to there. She offered to have one of
> > her staff there all the time, but I said that shouldn't be necessary
> > (it's too much burden for them)
> assuming this refers to the talk rooms, agreed. once we know the
> equipment + are sure we can get a good audio feed into the talk room
> "PA" speakers, we should be self sufficient.
>
> Meeting with them with access to the room would be great on this coming
> trip.
> > - Daisy also recommended getting stadium speakers in Davis, since
> > the sound isn't very good.
>
> Does she have any recommendations on from whom to rent these. If we do
> that it obviates the need for what I just typed above.
During the Friday, June 18th meeting with CRF (Columbia Computer
Sciences school's IT department (for those v-t members Cc:ed who don't
know already )) we found out they (CRF) have their own PA speakers +
power amp. That system was set up in Davis for another event while we
were there, so I was able to take a look at it. It should be entirely
adequate for our needs, so no need to rent anything else.
There are some speakers mounted on the walls in the 2nd talk room
(interschool lab). Earlier investigations showed some options for
getting a signal into them from our mixer, but if memory serves we'll
probably need some converter boxes (d-i or similar) for that as I don't
recall there being balanced inputs. I'll try to get my notes and
pictures collected and published before Tuesday's videoteam meeting.
> My trip up this week may not be the last pre-debcamp, if they really
> think they need to have servers and stuff set up in the coffee room
> before debcamp. As I've suggested on IRC, I'm willing to loan 2 quad
> core boxes.
>
> one currently exists with 5x640g disks in RAID5 yielding ~2.7G.
>
> The other would have 5x750G RAID5 (disks already here) but, waits for me
> to purchase mobo, ram, cpu and PSU.
>
> one can be "barney" the v-t file store.
>
> the other can be an encoder machine + maybe icecast.
I committed to making another pre-debcamp trip up to NYC in July with
the machines I'll be putting together. The exact dates of this trip are
not yet set.
Further note: 3 1 TB drives are on their way to me from .eu from past
DebConfs. So, I'll probably add a 4th of my own to those for building
barney, now. (instead of using my 750GB drives for that)
> I'm pretty not excited about the sneakernet proposition. But, PyCon
> deals with that so I guess we can, too.
As noted in the meeting notes from Friday's venue visit, we can probably
avoid having to do this. On the afforementioned trip we'll set up some
throughput tests between the "coffee room" (where are servers will live)
and the talk rooms. These will be for both live dvswitch streams to the
stream encoders and bulk file transfer tests for breaktime/overnight
transfers.
-edrz
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