[Noisebridge-discuss] streaming video, teleconferencing and more

Praveen Sinha dmhomee at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 19:20:33 UTC 2009


These are some great ideas -- if anyone has any reccomendations for
specifics cameras and mics, I can create a fundable.org project for them....

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Adam Skory <askory at gmail.com> 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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