Re: NUUG 2014-06-10: Open S ource in Broadcasting (medlemsmøte)

Minner om NUUG-møte første arbeidsdag etter pinsen.  Foredragsholder
er i Oslo på tirsdag, og i Bergen på torsdag.  Vi i NUUG spurte BLUG
om de også ville ha besøk. :)

[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> Norwegian Unix User Group (NUUG) inviterer til medlemsmøte i NUUG
> Oslo.  Alle medlemmer og ikke-medlemmer er velkomne. Arrangementet er
> gratis.  Etter foredraget (fra ca. 19:45) blir det sosialt samvær.
> 
> Tid:   Tirsdag 10. juni 2014 kl. 18.30
> Sted:  Pilestredet 56, Oslo[1], og
>        Atea Stavanger, Stadionparken (Viking Stadion),
>        Jåttåvågveien 7[2], Stavanger (videostream).
> 
>  [1] <URL: http://www.nuug.no/kart.shtml?lat=59.923826&lon=10.731643&zoom=14&layers=0BTT >
>  [2] <URL: http://www.nuug.no/kart.shtml?lat=58.91568&lon=5.73021&zoom=14&layers=0BTT >
> 
> Månedens tema er: «Open Source in Broadcasting» med Kieran Kunhya.
> Foredraget vil foregå på engelsk:
> 
>   For a variety of reasons broadcasters are not big users of open
>   source - if anything many still have a viewpoint of Open Source that
>   resembles views of the early 1990s. This presentation aims to
>   explain what broadcasters around the world are doing in this area
>   and what some of the difficulties are in an industry reliant on
>   proprietary hardware and software as well as IPR-heavy. In
>   particular it will look into the creation of the Open Broadcast
>   Encoder (OBE), a professional television encoder running on
>   commodity hardware which many Norwegian organisations have played a
>   role in. Many of the deployments have been firsts for Open Source in
>   broadcasting, not to mention software encoders, silencing many
>   naysayers.
> 
> Kieran has worked on a variety of Open Source projects in multimedia,
> mainly on x264 and FFmpeg/libav, trying to make them suitable for use
> in professional environments such as Blu-Ray, television transmission
> and post-production to broadcaster file interchange. However, the
> technical issues are only half of the puzzle - he also spends a lot of
> time trying to explain Broadcasting to Open Source people and Open
> Source to Broadcasters and has spoken at many events about this. He is
> the creator of the Open Broadcast Encoder[3] project, which is a fully
> open source broadcast encoder used to deliver a variety of channels
> around the world from the most high profile channels to much smaller
> channels, putting small players (e.g Frikanalen[4] in Norway) on a
> similar playing field to the big players. He has worked on all the
> major deployments of OBE.
> 
>  [3] <URL: http://obe.tv/ >
>  [4] <URL: http://www.frikanalen.no/ >
> 
> Medlemsmøtet vil også bli direktesendt over internett, adressen til
> videostrømmen er <http://www.nuug.no/live.m3u>, som du kan åpne i
> nettleseren eller direkte i mediaavspilleren. For mer informasjon se
> egen side om direktesending av video[5].
> 
>  [5] <URL: http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/video/streaming >
> 
> Minner forøvrig om NUUGs IRC-kanal #nuug på irc.freenode.net,
> mailinglisten [email protected] for diskusjon om aktiviteten i NUUG og at
> NUUGs kalender er tilgjengelig på iCalender-format via
> <http://www.nuug.no/adict/ical.php?organizer=NUUG>.
> 
> Vel møtt!
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Petter Reinholdtsen
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