Professionally organized conferences (like http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress ) will of course offer you A/V
capabilities, they will even record the sessions for you:
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/wiki/Conference_Recordings
But not everybody can do this, especially not a bunch of volunteer
students with limited budget (remember: FOSDEM is free like in speech
AND in beer) which organize FOSDEM.
So we record ourselves just over the air with the camera build in
microphones. Not the best quality and a little bit improvisational
though but it helps to keep the effort at a reasonable level. But
nevertheless thanks for the advices!
cheers,
Lars
Am 02.02.2011 um 02:32 schrieb Robert Slover:
I used to do A/V for (very) large seminars here in the states.
Invariably the larger ballrooms and conference halls had a speaker
system, but smaller conference rooms often didn't have separate
systems (many times, smaller conference rooms were just a larger
room with partitions pulled across to divide up the space). Most
of the time, it was not worth the effort to deal with what you
would find, it was easier to bring everything you could possibly need.
If you do go that route, you need to have a decent-sized arsenal of
connectors and adaptors. Mic circuits are generally going to be
balanced XLR, often powered, which isn't going to be something you
can simply plug your laptop into. A small mixing console,
typically something with several high impedance inputs and XLR and
line-level RCA outputs is very useful. It's sort of the Swiss-army-
knife tool when doing this sort of thing. You can call ahead to
the hotel to try to get some idea of their facilities, but in my
experience I rarely found someone who understood enough to answer
my questions accurately.
--Robert
On Feb 1, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Ivan Vučica wrote:
I have not been to FOSDEM; but how come lecture halls don't have
some sort of organizer-provided speaker system? Almost any public
speech I have been to in Croatia had one (for use with microphone)
-- isn't it easier to plug laptop into that?
(All the talk about FOSDEM on this list warmed me up to it,
hopefully one of these years I'll be able to go :-))
Regards,
Ivan Vučica
via phone
On 2. vel. 2011., at 00:22, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi everybody,
it would be nice if somebody could bring one of the following
things to FOSDEM:
- a pair of computer speakers
- a second projector (we'll get one from the FOSDEM organizers)
with adapters
- some printed out material (flyers, brochures and so on)
- Live-CDs anyone? (we could bring blank CD-Roms or DVDs and burn
them ad hoc)
What do we need that for? Gregory Casamento is presumably giving
his speech via Skype. We did something similar before when David
Chisnall gave his speach via iChat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSQaROKGIsY
From that experience we know that the build in speakers of a
computer are to silent and that the screen of a laptop is to small.
we would need the flyers and brochures for people to take away so
they have something printed about GNUstep in their hands
Btw. Tim Käck will bring a tripod plus video camera so we can
record the talks. I will bring a small router and a multiple
plug. Bring your own ethernet cables!
cheers,
Lars
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