On 08/05/2017 03:01, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> nattie, pollo and I were speaking and we thought it is a good time for >>> us to hold a meeting to start planning for Debconf17 as it is only 3 >>> months away. The proposed meeting is on >>> >>> Wednesday 24 May 2017 @ 18:00 UTC > > I'll be there for the meeting too but I'll also be in a university > lecture at the same time so I won't be able to chair this meeting. > I'm happy to chair if need be >>> >>> Proposed agenda: >>> >>> * Logistics for DC17 (shipping, equipment, etc) >>> * New Hardware [1] >>> * Video Team Sprint >>> >>> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebConf/Video/VideoTeamDocs/NewVideoTeamHardware > > == Audio == > > Looking quickly at that list, it looks like the audio part still needs a > lot of work. I don't know how feasible buying audio gear this year is if > RattusRattus does not pop up and help us with this soon :( > > I thus feel the easy way would be to rent the audio gear completely for > this year and try to get our shit together for DC18 and buy our own gear. > > We could also rent SDI cables at the same time. > > This is really not something I want to have to do (since I'll clearly be > the one dealing with this locally), but I think it's the only realistic > option we have. I also think that this may be the best way to go for this year, unless we can organise a sprint in the next month or so with enough time to purchase and have shipped the equipment. > > == Video == > > One thing I really want us to buy this year is the video gear. We want > to use Voctomix everywhere this year and scrap the old camcorders. > > From what I understand, we can either buy 4 new cameras and use the 2 > big ones we have or scrap everything and buy 6 new cameras. I don't feel > competent to make that choice though. > > We'll also need 4 more black magic pci-e adapters. > > == Computers == > > IIRC we now have 1 "cube" computer. We can use that for one of the 3 > video mixing stations we need. We can either buy 2 more and ship them, > or try to get some locally. > > I've talked to lavamind and we might be able to source computers > directly from the venue's IT dep, but nothing is sure there. We can get > screens for sure. > > == Opsis == > > I really have not followed what is happening with the opsis. I know we > bought 1 Turbot but I don't recall what came out of that experiment. > Should we buy 2 more? According to the Hardware List wiki page, it worked well, though there were still things to do such as mount it in a 1U case. > > We also had 1 borked opsis after DC16 and had to use tumbleweed's dev > board. Has this been fixed? > [...] >> = DebConf shipping = >> >> FYI my plane tickets are for the following dates: >> >> - CDG 2017-07-28 13:35 UTC+02:00 -> MTL 2017-07-28 14:55 UTC-04:00 (AF344) >> - MTL 2017-08-13 22:05 UTC-04:00 -> CDG 2017-08-14 10:55 UTC+02:00 (AF349) >> >> (Arrival on Friday before DebCamp, departure on Sunday after DebConf) >> >> I'm okay with doing the "olasd shipping co." duties (doing the ATA >> Carnet and carrying the stuff to/from the airports), as that's something >> I have already done before and I know takes a bounded and reasonable >> amount of time. Of course, I'd be happy if someone would find a shipping >> company which handles temporary imports. > > Looks like FedEx might? > > http://www.fedex.com/ca_english/services/international/customsforms/tempimport.html > > http://www.fedex.com/ancillary/go/service/?pt=cl&lc=en_US&wcc=CA&dc=ca > >> >> Prices for e.g. https://www.afklcargo.com/ could be worth investigating, >> but ENOTIME on my end. I too unfortunately have no time to follow this up.
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