On 2016-03-23 03:23, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:32:09AM -0400, Holger Levsen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> thanks for starting this discussion! >> >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 08:13:17AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> First, I think the big question is how we're going to record dc16. >> >> Actually, I think that's not first, but second. >> >> What IMO really needs to be done first is making sure we have gear in >> Cape Town. Without gear you cannot run neither voctomix nor dvswitch. > > Sure. > > But my thoughts were that the gear we want to get to Cape Town may > depend on what software stack we're going to end up using. > > If we use dvswitch, we *have* to use DV cameras, which pretty much means > shipping hardware from Paris to Cape town. If we use voctomix, then DV > cameras is no longer a hard requirement, and therefore it *may* be > cheaper to rent cameras locally. If that is the case, we should do so; > but that's all moot if we can't end up using them. > > Therefore I think we should decide on that first; but I agree with you > that getting hardware in Cape Town is insanely important, and that we > should get ready doing that ASAP. > > (of course, if you think that it's a bad idea to rent gear locally for > whatever reason, I'd be happy to hear your reasoning on that, too) > >> That said, voctomix has not only been used as linux.conf.au, but also at >> several smaller events done by the CCC VOC. (They do a lot of events >> nowadays, alomst two per months (in the last year) I'd say. And at some, >> they have used voctomix. > > That's great to know; I didn't know this was the case. > > In that light, I think we should take the plunge and go with voctomix. > We'll have a full week to experiment with getting it to work properly; > that should be plenty. > I agree. We'll eventually have to switch anyway and I think we can manage the quirks and bugs we'll find. This will help a lot for the next DCs. >> But really, this is secondary. First someone needs to take the lead and >> make sure there is gear in South Africa. >> >> *Then*, once this is being take care off, focus can shift to other >> things. (And of course there is nothing wrong with paralleing work, but >> please consider working on the "boring" logistic first if you have >> cycles to spare.) >> >> I wont be much available the two or three weeks before the conference >> and I will miss DebCamp too, so it doesnt make sense if I try to lead >> this. > > Well, I do plan to attend debcamp. I may want to do some coding then > (need to implement STARTTLS for NBD), but nothing too important. I'll be there for DebCamp too so I can help out. As for the CCC video editing software, Tiago posted some notes here: http://tiago.acaia.ca/tags/ccc/ If you want I can try to find some time to build it and play around with it. -- pollo
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