Michael Have you progressed your plans for the video any further?
It would be good to draft some instructions for the session chairs. I am planning to pull together a simple 'prompt card' for the sessions chairs over the next week or so (based on the session chairs instructions on the wiki). I intended to place these in the lecture rooms as a reminder. We could put the video (and audio) instructions in the same place. I was also planning on a session chairs briefing, hopefully before the welcome session on Monday morning. If we want the session chairs to hold a card over the cameras or to check they are started etc. this would be a good opportunity to explain the process. Are you going to be available Monday morning to do this? I expect to have to offer to repeat the briefing on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning for session chairs that are not attending the whole conference. All the best Richard On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Michael Sparks <spark...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Richard Taylor > <rjt-pyco...@thegrindstone.me.uk> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > May be we could try to get volunteers to cover the sessions in the same > > way as we do the session chairs. So we could set up a table on the wiki > > and ask people to volunteer to cover AM or PM for each room. > > > > If we can get each session covered it would then be a matter of getting > > the instructions written down so that they can be followed with as > > little training as possible. Perhaps we could prepare some simple > > cue-cards that can be kept with the cameras so that someone could do it > > at short notice with out needing you to show them what is required. > > Good ideas. Incidentally, I hadn't used a camcorder before last year, > and learnt a lot as I went, but simple cue cards for things would be > good. When I chatted to John on the phone we weren't clear whether the > cameras he's got can be used whilst plugged into a DC supply (or if > they could be plugged in directly at all). If that isn't the case > then this plan goes out the window. > > > If we could get more than 1 external HD we could could speed up the > > transfer from the SD cards so that it might be doable over lunch. A bank > > of 4 laptops each with a external HD, or may be a small NAS or a switch, > > feeding everything into one machine. > > A NAS would probably be a bad idea --simply because you're throwing > another thing into the mix. > > > I don't have access to SD cards - so I can't help there. > > np. I'll probably get one to simply find out how long transferring > 16Gb off one takes. (Gives a baseline to see how awkward this will be) > > > I would certainly volunteer to cover some of the sessions (especially > > those that I was chairing). > > Much appreciated. My aim would be to have as long a load on the person > caretaking each camera, simply because then we'd hopefully get more of > the conference recorded :-) > > > Michael. > >
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