Hey all, A missing piece of DC10 report is the videoteam text. My english is terrible, so I can't help much. Can anyone review it and add the missing words?
File is available at https://svn.debconf.org/svn/reports/dc10/texts/video- team.txt As it is a small text, I'm copying below so you can fix here then I commit there (special attention to the incomplete end): ---- Title: The DebConf Video Team Author: Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva DebConf is one of the most critical phases of Debian development throughout the year. While DebConf isn't necessarily when the most code is written, it is when many meetings happen to plan out what to do and share ideas. This period is so important that those who want to take part in Debian but cannot attend may be at a disadvantage. Thanks to the video team, DebConf is not limited to those able to travel for a week. The DebConf10 video team broadcasted two rooms of talks to the entire world, and archived all footage for reference by anyone. Those wanting to participate or ask questions can ask in the talk room channels on IRC, and someone will relay the questions or feedback. Don't underestimate the usefulness of this service. Countless ideas have been proposed during talks - or created during the discussions surrounding talks or BOFs. One example of this is Joey Hess's Constantly Usable Testing proposal. This idea was proposed during a talk, discussed by the audience, and generated such excitement that developers have continued to work on it after DebConf. If developers were not able to see this introduction, they would be at a disadvantage for contributing. Furthermore, the talk is archived for future contributors so that they can catch up and contribute more. All of this is done with a software stack developed in a large part at past DebConfs. The setup uses mostly software components, instead of expensive proprietary hardware, so that anyone else can easily use our work without major expense. Of course, all parts are free software. We use Digital Video capture via Firewire and in-room gigabit ethernet to move video to our central mixer. The mixer, "dvswitch", can switch between different video inputs, audio inputs, and even do picture-in-picture displays. Typically, there is a speaker camera, audience camera, and slide capture. There are both speaker and audience microphones. From the mixer, there is an uplink to an encoding server which then broadcasts to a worldwide network of streaming servers. A mixed stream is also saved for later archival encodings. The DebConf team has existed since DebConf FIXME(debconf number). Its work has been used at numerous other free software conferences, such as FOSDEM, PyCon, FIXME(add more). It is designed with simplicity and ease of setup in mind, so that anyone can use it. DebConf is very proud of its video team. If you want to view any past talks, or talks at future DebConfs, just go to http://video.debconf.org. FIXME(make this URL useful, and point to past talks and current streams) --- -- Tiago Bortoletto Vaz http://tiagovaz.org 0xA504FECA - http://pgp.mit.edu _______________________________________________ Debconf-video mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-video
