Hi, This year we a have a large number of BoF proposals, as well as quite a number of small meeting rooms that can be used for them. The largest of these meeting rooms (called Amsterdam) with a capacity of up to 45 attendees is the one that we have designated as "Main BoF room". For the smaller rooms (15 to 20 people) we had originally considered that it wouldn't make sense to have a full video setup, and they would be used for in-person meetings only. But there's an important part of video setup that would be lost in that case, as for the BoFs, having a video setup would provide a way for remote viewers to participate in the discussion, using irc to relay their comments. And, even though the BoFs per se might have a small audience, the results of such a meeting can be invaluable to Debian, and so, it's currently quite a hard decision for the content team that has to choose among the BoFs, which ones are going to have video and allow remote participation. So, two things come to mind to improve the situation: - To have an unmanned video setup, with only an open ambient mic and an open camera. This could reduce some of the overhead in the video team for a small rooms. - To use an open source voip solution (such as mumble) to improve the remote participants experience, reducing the need for the irc relayer, and allowing the voice of the remote participants to be recorded. Both options have been discussed in some previous meetings but I'm not sure if there is someone actually aiming to make this a reality, or if the video team was even consulted about these options. So, would it be possible to have some unmanned video setup? Do we need some extra hardware? Is someone willing to drive this? Would it be possible to use mumble (or similar) to allow remote participation in the meetings? Is someone willing to drive this? Either option would greatly simplify the content team's decision process, as we wouldn't have to demote as many BoF proposals to in-person only and we could instead, have the inner team discussions in a smaller room with some way of remote participation, either video + irc, just audio, or even both if someone wants to make them both a reality. Happy hacking, -- "The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take." -- Roy Carlson Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/
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