[Noisebridge-discuss] streaming video, teleconferencing and more

[Adam Skory]

We've had some tele-attandence of our Sensebridge meetings already,
but only by drafting someone's macbook and using skype.

Some thoughts that have been bouncing around my head already:

- If we want to get conferences, and not just one person lecturing, we
need good microphonage. There are commercial tele-conference
microphone thingees. I see some on eBay for Not Much. Or, perhaps we
can build something similar from old mics and a mixer.

- It would be super, super, super cool to have a fish-eye lense on a
webcam, so we could capture 360° . I'm not smart enough with the
graphics to know how hard it would be to make something to normalize
that into some kind of live, pan-able video. I've read about
commercial ones like this for conference rooms, but they seem to be
many hundreds of dolares. If we could DIY that it would be fucking
amazing.

- A virtual white board could be very useful. I've looked into sites
that offer these and everything I've found is some combination of
sign-up-y, spammy, and/or sucky. Ideally we want something that can be
projected on the wall and shared online.

~Skory

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:28 PM, David Stainton <dstainton415 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I also think that this is a really cool idea.
> There isn't really a privacy issue; so long
> as everyone's notified.
>
> This could allow us to easily collaborate on projects with remote hacker spaces,
> to have classes and work shops taught by remote parties etc...
>
> I also feel it would be a useful tool to help us learn difficult
> topics that people lecture about.
> For example I think it could be useful to the Noisebridge Machine
> Learning class if
> the students could take home a recording of a ML lecture or discussion.
>
> ~david
>
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Ceren Ercen <ceren at magnesium.net> wrote:
>> I do really think this is quite reasonable.
>>
>> If anyone's so terrified that there might be a second lens on the back of
>> the camera, secretly videoing them as watch the speaker, I'll provide a
>> burqa. I hope light blue is acceptable.
>>
>> Just my two cents. The whole "omg no cameras I'm too
>> sneakyspecialawesomeillegal to risk being videotaped ever!" thing can get
>> overblown.
>>
>> - Ceren
>>
>> Martin Bogomolni wrote:
>>>
>>> So, they don't have to have their images captured then.   I know some
>>> people have idiosycratic issues about being on camera, but how about
>>> pointing the camera at the person doing the speaking (or persons, like
>>> 5 minutes of Fame) and broadcasting that?
>>
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