Meeting videoing (was: Re: [nylug-talk] Meeting Pre-announcement: August 30, Ajai Khattri on Gentoo / Video help)

[Ron Guerin]

Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
> On Friday 18 August 2006 07:48, Ron Guerin wrote:
>> If you can help out by videoing this meeting, please let us know.  We
>> could use another person on our video team/production team, for anyone
>> who's interested.  Our immediate goal is to be able to make our meetings
>> available for download within a short period of time after.
>> Availability is much more important than perfection, so don't be shy,
>> anyone with a camera and interest is qualified.

> I won't be in New York for this one, but I could help with recording future 
> meetings.  I may be able to grab some mics from work as well so the audio 
> atleast sounds decent.

We should probably carry this on over on the volunteers list, but
anyway... all help is greatly appreciated.  There's been a lot of
interest expressed in getting videos of the meetings, and also in
streaming audio or audio and video of the meeting, live.  We need to see
what can realistically be done with what's available to us.

Whatever we do, I think simplicity is important.  The podium at IBM has
some interesting features, but I don't know what I'm looking at.  The
nice woman at IBM who sees to it that the room is ready for us would be
happy to show you and Christopher (our other volunteer who also won't be
able to attend Aug 30) what it's supposed to do.  We might as well
bootstrap off the facilities that come with the room.  Monjay has an
increasingly sophisticated AV kit, but it was expensive for her to haul
it around, and it got to be a bit too much for even her once she moved
to New Jersey.  Somehow we need to do these things without needing an
hour of setup time and a cab to carry it all around.

So, we're still looking for someone to video next Wednesday, if anyone's
interested, and as my grandmother used to say, many hands make light work.

- Ron