hello everyone !
the linux audio conference 2005 @ zkm (http://lac.zkm.de) is drawing near, and it's time to get the streaming network up and running again.
like last year, the idea is to stream all the lectures and discussions live over the net, and to provide webcams with either stills every 30 secs or (if we can pull it off) theora video streaming. of course we will also provide IRC channels for online participation.
currently, i'm looking for people who are willing to host a streaming relay server based on icecast2.
for our primary relays, we will need servers with >= 10 mbits of bandwidth (smaller links would put too much load on the master server),
however, folks with less bandwidth are welcome to join in as well, but they will have to pull their streams off a secondary server.
if you can donate some time and bandwidth and want to have fun with live streaming, please holler now. please also indicate whether you would be willing to participate in a sort of "stand-by streaming network" that could easily reactivated for other linux-audio-related events (i'm cc:ing tim hall who is putting together a conference in the uk later this year, and maybe conrad could use it too for the linux audio miniconf in australia...)
also on the cc: list are some of the folks who participated last year (hi marco, patrice and fred!), in the hope that they will be able to join us again...
we will prepare detailed instructions on how to build and configure icecast2 - previous streaming experience is not necessary, although it helps if you know your way around basic networking issues.
if you are interested, please reply to my private address only, so that we don't clutter people's inboxes too much. then i'll put together an ad-hoc cc: list or maybe we'll ask for a proper mailing list on the zkm server, depending on how many people are interested...
i don't have francois dechelle's current email address, perhaps someone could forward this mail to him.
best regards,
jörn
