Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 9, 2009 20:47 UTC (Fri) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
In reply to: Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com) by niv
Parent article: Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com)

I realise it takes more people and equipment to do this, but it's not that expensive and it doesn't require hiring professionals. Please have a look at DVswitch, which I wrote for DebConf and which has been used at several other conferences.

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Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 9, 2009 21:59 UTC (Fri) by niv (guest, #8656) [Link] (2 responses)

Thanks for the pointer, Ben! Looks cool.

So if we did one room - we'd need two video camera feeds and two volunteers to move them around as needed? What were your hardware requirements, especially storage? Was a camcorder sufficiently good quality video?

Will put it on the list for next year's team to look at, for sure.

Note, though, that LPC is a developer-run conference - by developers, for developers. Not quite as slick as a professionally run conference (it's not actually a Linux Foundation event - they just assist us on some things). So we're sometimes constrained by our volunteer focus and budget limitations.

BTW, do you have slides for your BoF session, or any notes or summary that you'd like to have us put up on the Program page? :).

Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 15, 2009 13:26 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

so if we did one room - we'd need two video camera feeds and two volunteers to move them around as needed? What were your hardware requirements, especially storage? Was a camcorder sufficiently good quality video?

Two cameras and three volunteers (one per camera and one for the mixer). DV is 13GB/hour, so ~100GB/day/room. We've mostly used consumer camcorders but sometimes had the use of 1 "prosumer" camera. More information on the wiki.

Note, though, that LPC is a developer-run conference - by developers, for developers. Not quite as slick as a professionally run conference (it's not actually a Linux Foundation event - they just assist us on some things). So we're sometimes constrained by our volunteer focus and budget limitations.

Same for DebConf.

BTW, do you have slides for your BoF session, or any notes or summary that you'd like to have us put up on the Program page? :)

No, there's nothing beyond the list of items included in the description.

Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 15, 2009 13:32 UTC (Thu) by amk (subscriber, #19) [Link]

The PyCon 2009 video recordings (available at pycon.blip.tv) were made by voulnteers using DVswitch, with foundation support for purchasing equipment. This tutorial was written from the PyCon experience.

Cutting between the slides and the speaker was done on-the-fly during the talk; the resulting edits are occasionally sub-optimal, but doing this avoids requiring an enormous mass of editing work once the event is over, which is when all the volunteers are tired and burnt out.