Hello, I am a member of both the BSDCan and EuroBSDcon stream teams along with the NYC*BUG meeting video person. As a community we have been streaming and producing the conference videos for both conferences for a few years now.
I would like to ask the community for help to purchase equipment for our collective benefit for use in future conferences. While cameras are easy enough to rent, Decimators, the HDMI to SDI signal conversion units we have speakers plug into at conferences, do not seem to be an item AV rental companies stock. By making these purchases we can lower our yearly AV equipment rental bill and have the key pieces of equipment on hand for our conferences. The devices in the wish list below are the next model up from the units we used in Portugal and will work with the newest Mac laptops. Some members of the community have expressed interest in helping with the hardware upgrade and would like the benefit of a US tax system 501c3 donation write off. I have spoken to the FreeBSD Foundation and they have agreed to purchase the units for us using funds earmarked for the Conference AV Streaming Donation. FreeBSD Foundation: (Please label donation "Conference AV Streaming Donation" in Paypal comments / check memo please) https://freebsdfoundation.org/donate/ More info on the Decimator unit: https://www.decimator.com/Products/MiniConverters/12G-CROSS/12G-CROSS.html Wish List for a local NYC supplier that carries Decimators if you want to just buy directly.: https://www.bnh.com/wish/493426bf537e5b9873ebcad2b31e1ef0/ Patrick McEvoy
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