Re: [Boston.pm] telepresence for meetings

2013-02-09 Thread John Abreau
My understanding is that Google Hangout works with a laptop's webcam. The support people at MIT told me that we can use the built-in cameras in the classrooms to stream our meetings, but that they cannot provide support, and that the cameras can only record into MIT's private video archive, which

Re: [Boston.pm] telepresence for meetings

2013-02-08 Thread Jerrad Pierce
If you use a Google hangout, it'd stream live and be archived to youtube w/o separate saving and upload, n'est-ce pas? ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] telepresence for meetings

2013-02-07 Thread John Abreau
I asked MIT about the cameras. They say we can use them to stream our meetings, but they can't provide us tech support, so we'd have to figure out for ourselves how to use them. There's no mechanism for non-MIT users to record from the cameras, but if you can play the streaming video on a laptop,

Re: [Boston.pm] telepresence for meetings

2013-01-09 Thread Tom Metro
Brian Dowling wrote: ...if this group had thought about virtually extending your meetings or recorded any previous ones. I haven't seen any demand for that for Boston.pm prior to this thread, but the topic has come up several times for Boston Linux/UNIX, also hosted at MIT. I've noticed in the

Re: [Boston.pm] telepresence for meetings

2013-01-09 Thread Bill Ricker
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Tom Metro tmetro+boston...@gmail.comwrote: I haven't seen any demand for that for Boston.pm prior to this thread, but the topic has come up several times for Boston Linux/UNIX, also hosted at MIT. BLU has recorded some talks (audio quality questionable, see