On 2/15/07, Caleb Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure FreeGeek would love to have a video camera > donated. And they, unlike us, actually have a useful place to keep one. > Plus other groups who have their meetings at FreeGeek, like the PHP > group, could use it. Ideally, you could even coordinate with Chris > Dawson (who donated/setup the audio podcasting box) to do video podcasts > using the same hardware. I know Chris subscribes to this list...
Does FreeGeek also have a secure storage area where something like a DV camera could be locked up when a group wasn't specifically using it? I'm not sure what improvements to security have been made around there since the break-in last year, but I've never gotten the sense that anyone was keeping all that close of track of gear (other than the machines being recycled, of course) as it passed through the building. It just seems like a shiny new video camera might be awfully small/valuable/resellable to keep track of in an environment as open as FreeGeek. That being said, there could also be a lot of common good to be had if such equipment were available. Perhaps it could be bolted down securely to a rather large tripod, and weighted so that it was difficult to just walk out with it? (All of which would also make for nice stabilization in case the camera was bumped during a presentation...) Just my random $0.025 (inflation, and all that...) -Lennon _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
