Re: Reminder: VIDEOFEST today

I forgot to mention: if there is anyone else who'd like to help with
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Cheers,
Silvia.

On 8/12/06, Silvia Pfeiffer <[email protected]> wrote:
> A brief report on this event.
>
> We had about a dozen SLUGgers and non-SLUGgers attend, who were all
> interested to help out with the video work necessary for and at
> Software Freedom Day on 16th September.
>
> *** It was absolutely awesome planning the event with this many
> volunteers! Thanks to everyone who came round and offered their help!!
> ***
>
> In the morning we had a rather quiet play with the setup of several
> computers for video streaming. Somehow it wasn't our day for technical
> work, but rather for getting organised. Clearly, setting up and
> running flumotion takes some knowledge and persistency.
>
> Over lunch we went into town to check out several shops that sold DVD
> camcorders, since we are considering buying/renting these for the
> recording. It turns out that most DVD camcorders do not have a
> microphone socket. The idea was born to try it with a DV camera and a
> DVD recorder.
>
> In the afternoon we focused on getting organised for SFD and put
> together the people, the hardware, the timeline, and the work
> components. If all works out as planned, we should have lots of fun at
> SFD.
>
> Cheers,
> Silvia.
>
>
> On 8/12/06, Silvia Pfeiffer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > *SLUG Videofest*
> >
> > Start: 2006-08-12 10:30
> > End: 2006-08-12 18:30
> > Location: UTS CB02.06.42; Building 2, Level 6, Rom 642
> >
> > Description:
> >
> > We will experiment some with video technology on Linux and discuss
> > what resources we will need in order to have video technology happen
> > at Software Freedom Day in September. We will form ourselves into
> > groups, each of which will focus on a particular technology, such as
> > flumotion streaming, kino editing, ffmpeg2theora transcoding, Web
> > publishing, and CMML annotations.
> >
> > If you can, it'd be great to bring a laptop and a USB webcam, or even
> > a DV camera and a firewire card.
> >
>
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