On Thursday, Oct 9, 2003, at 22:32 US/Central, Paul Double wrote:
Assuming the sound system is found and --
With all the schools having cable or T1 internet access isn't it possible to
have an audio and video feed to the media or the district web site of the
board meetings from any school building or at city hall where ever they are
held? Can they be replayed on the district web site? A live audio stream
could also be available on the program channels of both cable systems.
Paul Double
Quite possible.
Given the assumption that the district regularly buys new hardware this would be possible hardware wise. The only issue that would remain is software, some of which is free. Quicktime broadcaster which is one of the many options for this is possibly free. Although there are other components to this equation such as bandwidth bills (which may not seem that much unless the 861 board meetings get as popular as Survivor) and a streaming server like QuickTime Streaming Server. (I think)
Keep in mind this is highly theoretical but probably not that hard as I know of three weekly live Macintosh related shows that stream in a fashion similar to your suggestion.
One is in Japan, one in Brazil and one in the United States. (Some of how the US show is done is semi-documented here: http://www.yourmaclife.com/faq/)
The nuts and bolts for this could probably be set up in a couple of hours and about three cases of Mountain Dew by some techies. (I do not have that much knowledge on this since I do not have a spare machine to tie up with an experimental and useless to me project.)
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Why would someone want to watch a stream as opposed to cable tv? I am not sure? Maybe they were lucky enough to be out of town that day or they did not want to turn their TV up to 45 to hear the meeting?
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Years ago when we met in the lower library, there was a sound system
available with mikes for everyone. What ever happened to that system? Also,
it was then required that all school board meeting be at least audio taped.
Finally, for those of us in the rural areas, we would really like the
meetings, both study sessions and regular meetings, to be televised. Charter
provides them to us at least in Rollingstone on our government access
channel. I would encourage the board to hold all their meetings at City
Hall so all of us can be a part of your discussion. Dick Gaffron
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