[Noisebridge-discuss] streaming video, teleconferencing and more

[Josh Myer]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:29:51PM -0700, Praveen Sinha wrote:
> So my next questions to you all -- noisebridge is starting to produce some
> really cool sounding sessions and I can only make a small percentage of
> stuff I'd like to be involved in.  I don't have a lot of video experience,
> but:
> 
> 1) Anyone have any suggestions/designs for some sort of rig we could use to
> capture video/audio of events, for the purpose of streaming online?
> 

I actually have the dorkbot camera guy's contact info for just this
question.  I'll drop him an email this evening asking for
recommendations (I don't believe he's on the list).

> 2) I think it would be amazing to be able to videoconference with other
> hackerspaces (or whomever) on the wall...  With the projector, and skype,
> this could be really straightforward... But are there better approaches?  My
> employer, for example, has a room called "Virtual Isabel", where the room is
> replicated in second life, and people in the physical room talk with the
> avatars in the virtual room, and the virtual room sees a live stream of the
> physical room...
> 

I like the idea of having a better telepresence setup, though not
anything nearly as advanced as what you've got at work.  Also, I don't
currently have, and would rather not create, a SL account (call me
closed-minded and old-fashioned if you must, but, well, it's apt).

(IIRC, you and I had chatted about this for ML talks back at the
beginning of those, as far back as December.  I'd love to see us push
through it now, but haven't wanted to step into it myself just yet.)
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