[Noisebridge-discuss] streaming video, teleconferencing and more

[Eric Boyd]

I've been on the other end of the Sensebridge meetings and I know what I 
want: an ability to rotate the computer at NB on my command.  So I'm 
thinking maybe something as simple as a stepper motor controlled 
platform (turntable?) with a webpage/shell interface.  Simply put the 
skype computer on the platform and presto.

I also agree that a good mic would be a super cool thing.

Eric




Adam Skory wrote:
> 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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