Tonight!
On 9/1/25 19:21, Russell Senior wrote:
Who: Edward Koenig
What: How I Record and Stream PLUG Talks
Where: 1930 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97201-5304, Room 86-01
When: Thursday, September 4, 2025 at 7 PM
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
Summary:
A simple tour of the various gadgetry and open source software I
pressed into service to record video and audio of these fine PLUG
talks for those folks who can't attend the meeting. The tools are just
stuff I had laying about and repurposed into a frankensteinesque
portable video streaming studio. Software discussed: OBS Studio,
Audacity, Kdenlive, cURL, Bash shell scripting. Hardware: GoPro Hero
13, Macbook Pro 2017, Yeti Blue USB microphone.
Bio:
Ed wanted to be a chemist ever since he burned holes in the kitchen
table with his Gilbert Chemistry Set (he still has the experiment card
deck). As the personal computer revolution took off and became a
laboratory tool, he learned few programming languages; some just for
the fun of it (BASIC, C, FORTRAN, COBOL, Assembly). He converted to
shareware and open source software for every day tasks (well, games
really...). As a hobby and a side hustle, he built new rebuilt old
computers from recycled parts before it was cool to do so. An acolyte
of Linux for nigh on 30+ years now, his preferred operating system of
choice: Slackware64 Linux.
PLUG is back at Portland State University. Thanks to the Computer
Science Department and to Andrew Greenberg for hosting us! The room is
in the basement of the PSU Engineering Building (also connected
underground to the Fourth Avenue Building, or FAB). Enter through the
Engineering Building. The outside door will be locked, but there
should be someone present at the entrance to let you in starting at
6:40pm until 7pm. There will be a sign on the door with a phone number
you can SMS if there isn't someone there to let you in immediately.
https://calagator.org/events/1250482190
With luck, the talk will also be streamed live here:
http://www.twitch.tv/kngbwlf, and later posted to YouTube.
