Re: [Boston.pm] telepresence for meetings
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 cannot be accessed by non-MIT users to upload to YouTube or to record onto a laptop. Are you saying you know for a fact that the built-in cameras in MIT's classrooms can be used by non-MIT users via Google Hangout? On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Jerrad Pierce belg4...@pthbb.org wrote: 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? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] telepresence for meetings
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
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, I imagine it should be possible to record the stream to the laptop's hard drive, then post the recording to youtube afterward. On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Tom Metro tmetro+boston...@gmail.com wrote: 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 video of my 2011 crypto talk). They've also done telepresense lately as one regular member was in rehab hospital so his buddy streamed it for him. I'm sure audio quality was poor too. I've noticed in the last 6 months or so that MIT has added cameras to all of its classrooms. Bill, does MIT provide any information on whether use of those cameras is available to user groups? AFAIK that's for SLOANE use. The trick would be consistently offering this. Whatever approach is taken, it has to be convenient for Bill or someone else who attends all meetings. In theory my phone could do that even if my laptop were presenting. I've never tried Skype video or transmitting on a Hangout. Not really my thing. If another regular wanted to make this their thing it could work, but it needs an enthusiastic volunteer. (Federico likes devices but he's not as regular as we could wish.) -- Bill @n1vux bill.n1...@gmail.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] telepresence for meetings
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 last 6 months or so that MIT has added cameras to all of its classrooms. Bill, does MIT provide any information on whether use of those cameras is available to user groups? Google hangouts for example seems to be getting used for similar events... Sounds worth a try, and obviously can be done independent of MIT with a laptop web cam. The trick would be consistently offering this. Whatever approach is taken, it has to be convenient for Bill or someone else who attends all meetings. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] telepresence for meetings
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 video of my 2011 crypto talk). They've also done telepresense lately as one regular member was in rehab hospital so his buddy streamed it for him. I'm sure audio quality was poor too. I've noticed in the last 6 months or so that MIT has added cameras to all of its classrooms. Bill, does MIT provide any information on whether use of those cameras is available to user groups? AFAIK that's for SLOANE use. The trick would be consistently offering this. Whatever approach is taken, it has to be convenient for Bill or someone else who attends all meetings. In theory my phone could do that even if my laptop were presenting. I've never tried Skype video or transmitting on a Hangout. Not really my thing. If another regular wanted to make this their thing it could work, but it needs an enthusiastic volunteer. (Federico likes devices but he's not as regular as we could wish.) -- Bill @n1vux bill.n1...@gmail.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
