Hi there! I wanted to propose to stream parts of the conference live via internet and eventually Second Life. I'd bring the camera anyway and streaming can be done either via http://ustream.tv (very easy setup, just plugin the camera and click the Record button, flash plugin) and/or via Quicktime Streaming Server. The latter would be needed for livestreaming it into Second Life (which I would take care of).
The advantages - possibility for people who cannot attend to attend virtually - marketing for Python (if there are enough viewers then ustream.tv might put this stream also on the frontpage) - if we do Second Life we might get some blog and link love from the Second Life community. - feedback from the outside. For each ustream channel there is an IRC channel and a Java applet attached to the stream (plus you can also show the stream on your own page via embed). In Second Life people could do the same. What is needed? - best would be a network cable (wifi was too flaky at the Plone conference) and a power connection for laptop and camera - for Quicktime it would be cool if somebody could provide a server with Darwin Streaming Server installed. ustream.tv should work out of the box but cannot be shown in Second Life. This server should have a good connection of course (I had problems with my Strato server back then when I did this in Seattle for the Plone Conference) What I would do - setup the location in Second Life, do the Second Life marketing (I'd need a press release) - setup ustream channel etc. - do the work at the conference (help would be appreciated though) Unfortunately one can only do one thing, stream to ustream or Second Life. If we want to do both, we'd need 2 cameras and 2 laptops. OTOH if we do quicktime we can do both, Second Life and webpage, but QT seems usually a bit flaky and might not always work while flash video seems more stable to me. So the question is, if there is interest. For the Plone conference at least there was interest and we also had some visitors at the Second Life booth and I know that people wanted to watch it at least via the web (and unfortunately it did not always work). If there is interest, I'd be happy to do that but of course any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Christian -- Christian Scholz video blog: http://comlounge.tv COM.lounge blog: http://mrtopf.de/blog Luetticher Strasse 10 Skype: HerrTopf 52064 Aachen Homepage: http://comlounge.net Tel: +49 241 400 730 0 Fax: +49 241 979 00 850 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: MrTopf on irc.freenode.net, Tao_T on irc.efnet.org Second Life Nick: Tao Takashi Second Life Blog: http://taotakashi.wordpress.com See me at video blogging week 2007: http://mrtopf.tv _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
