These are great ideas and I would love to help implement it, when time permits.
Cheers!! On Jan 30, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Ace Tunes <[email protected]> wrote: > That sounds like the best option for mics in mho. > > On Jan 30, 2013 10:48 AM, "chris kluka" <[email protected]> wrote: > My honest simple suggestion would be to have 2 mic's plugged into one sound > card. > > One cardioid facing the presenter and one omni in the center of the room. > > As far as cost goes, its just the cost of 1 extra microphone. > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Ron <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > With presentations, I think >1 mic is overkill. It's not a big deal for > either the presenter to rephrase the question before answering (the way > that's typically solved), or for the recording to just plain miss the > questions. Getting the questions recorded isn't important enough to way > overengineer this, IMO. > > Ron > > On 2013-01-30 10:12, Jim MacKenzie wrote: > > Hmm, the team speak idea is kind of interesting. It might make it so people > > who cant be at some of the bigger presentations can remote in, but still be > > able to answer questions. > > There is an option for a marked speaker to make everyone else go quite when > > they speak. > > And as a non-profit we qualify for the 512 user licence. > > > > > > The only thing with the 1 mic idea is we would have to get presenters to > > say the question before they answer it, and not just start answering it. > > Otherwise it may not make sense. Ive > > seen presenters do this, but we not always have professional presenters. > > > > Video is doable, we can easily set up screen recording as well, so if > > someone is showing code or something on the projector we could have > > seperate video of just that. > > > > > > > > Now, this is assuming that we have a presentation in the future from > > someone worth recording > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Ron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > For talks, we'd only need a single mic, since there's only one person > > > (who matters). > > > > > > I think video is important, since I like to use the whiteboard when > > > teaching/lecturing. > > > > > > Ron > > > > > > On 2013-01-30 08:27, Ace Tunes wrote: > > > > We would need to make sure to get a room/area mic (maybe two considering > > > > how big our meeting space is, our classrooms at UCN weren't much bigger > > > and > > > > we were running up to four area mics). As for the camera; it might even > > > be > > > > worth looking at the option of leaving it out, from my experience I > > > > found > > > > that the classes without video stream went smoothest. When it comes to > > > > recording it, software would be all we would need, but I don't know of > > > any > > > > free software that records sessions like that..... hmmm.... unless, I > > > just > > > > used teamspeak for the first time the other day, and I know it has the > > > > option to record, but can we also, from the server side, force it so > > > > that > > > > only one person's mic can be live? If so that might be an option, I am > > > sure > > > > we could host one on the sksp servers that would be turned on for > > > meetings > > > > only. With that we could use one piece of software to stream AND record. > > > We > > > > also could look at a Walkie-Talkie style application, though I don't > > > > know > > > > of any free ones, that would allow every user to participate in the > > > > meeting; one that we used, that I am particularly fond of, is > > > > Elluminate. > > > > Elluminate offers one way (editable) mic chatter, IRC style chat, and if > > > we > > > > really want video chat, as well as a whiteboard system. If we could find > > > a > > > > free version, or a REALLY cheap version, of that kind of thing it might > > > be > > > > worth it. > > > > > > > > Meako > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Ron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > In your opinion, what would it take to record/stream talks? One mic > > > > > (we > > > > > can probably get for free), an Internet connection we have, ustream is > > > > > free, I'm sure we could find an unused camera. 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