If I understand correctly, there are 3 barriers to making this happen consistently for each meeting:
1) Equipment: wireless body mics, maybe a small mixer or multichannel recorder. Remember that these presentations are often interactive and to make it useful, it helps to record the audience questions and input. I video taped one, but the lighting and acoustics in the large council chamber made the tape pretty useless. Besides, video of a presenter pointing out of frame wasn't very meaningful. 2) Someone to show up consistently with the equipment, set it up, make the recording and pack up the equipment at the end of the night. The trouble is there there aren't too many people who make it to _every_ meeting and so getting the equipment to show up every time can take some planning. 3) Post production. There is a non-trivial amount of work involved in getting the slideshow lined up with the audio track, and producing the Podcast so that it's fit for general consumption. The last part is where the out-of-towners could pitch in. I suppose it could be as simple as this: Let's say we came up with a good wireless body mic for the presenter and some kind of fairly omni mic for the crowd. They're both mono sources so one could be piped in to the left channel and the other could be piped into the right channel (basic multi-channel, avoids a mixer). Using Audacity, the post-production team could mute and unmute the audience channel as needed to allow for audience input and snip out the irrelevant parts to make it flow. Mix it back into one channel to prevent our listeners from getting nauseous and that's it for Audio. I don't know what the Podcast team used, but there is some software to tie the powerpoint presentation into the audio and produce a podcast. Presto. We just need a group of individuals to commit to a component of the plan and it can happen. It's been discussed on a few occasions and different people have come forward at various times but it is time consuming and it doesn't seem to materialize consistently. That's my understanding of where it's at. If someone wants to take the reigns and muster the hardware and people, it can happen. Dave On 3/27/07, Peter MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There are a few at http://podcast.taug.ca/. Not sure if the guys have plans to put any more up or not. I guess the old locator map rule still applies: You are HERE. The action is OVER THERE! Oh, to get to Linuxworld..... I'd settle for BSDcon. Peter M. Terry D. Cudney wrote: > Hi, > > Are there already? or could there be audio recordings of presentations/talks at the TAUG meetings/linuxworld conferences etc? > > Many of us, not in the GTA, would like to hear what is hapening there. Streaming or downloadable audio would be perfect.... > > Pointers, Ideas, Suggestions are welcome... > > --terry > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
