Hi, * Daniel Lenharo <lenharo@debian.org> [2018-12-04 22:02:34 -0200]: > Hi, > > Em 04/12/2018 19:17, Nicolas Dandrimont escreveu: > > Hi Chris and friends, > > [...] The hardware is also sporadically used for other FLOSS events > > in the Paris area [..] > > > > Just a small question, why not share the cost with these events? Because they wouldn't have any money to give us. For context, the two old Panasonic cameras (and the two small camcorders) that were used until DC16 were sponsored and owned by IRILL (https://www.irill.org/ - the Initiative for Research and Innovation in Free Software, a joint research lab between Inria, Université Paris VI and Université Paris VII). At that point, the understanding between IRILL and the DebConf video team was that the hardware would be made available to record other Free Software events in the Paris area. That has been done, mostly under the supervision of Sylvestre Ledru. We know that we need the hardware for convenience when recording Debian events, because we've wasted way too much time cobbling together venue and borrowed or rented hardware. We know there's enough Debian events in Europe that we *already* record for the purchase to make financial sense: in 2019, we expect at least two MiniDebConfs in France and Germany -and maybe one in the UK-; in 2020, we expect to have DebConf around these parts, and the hardware will be used at all these events. At that point, we just have to decide: do we leave the hardware on a shelf collecting dust during the 48 weeks out of the 52 in a year where Debian doesn't use it, or do we play our part in the Free Software ecosystem, share our expertise, by doing what we love with the tools we already own? I think that's what Debian is about, after all :) Our video team doing video for other events in Paris has a bit died out since Sylvestre has moved on to other things, but now that I've become active in the video team, that the hardware is available, and that I've (re-) made connections with other groups in the French Free Software community, I want to do it again, and I will. Cheers, -- Nicolas Dandrimont BOFH excuse #17: fat electrons in the lines
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