[Hampshire] Joint LUG Event: Lightning talks on Linux audio

[Paul Tansom via Hampshire]

I teased this with my last meeting announcement, and then forgot that 
I'd tweaked some of my outbound email settings to work around a block on 
the Virgin IP block I send from (I'm not convinced their tech support 
were/are technical enough to understand my issue and they've gone quite 
now - I'm paying for my newfound speed with no IPv6 and consumer grade 
tech support that get lost off script, oh well). I'm sure there's a 
quote about the worst decorated house being that of a decorator - I 
think that's aimed at not wanting to do work when you get home, so I'm 
not sure how it holds up in the world of the computer geek, but my 
network is forever in a state of being patched until I can get the time 
to finish things!


Anyway, details can be found at: 
https://www.meetup.com/belfast-lug/events/280903885/ including 
registration and the link to Mozilla Hubs where it will be hosted. A 
quick cut and paste of the details gives:



Wednesday, September 29, 2021
6:30 PMto 8:30 PMBST

MULTI-LUG BONUS ROUND - EXTRA LUGS FOR YOUR LUGGING

Short talks from a range of LUG members on a range of desktop audio 
topics - coordinated by Edinburgh, Portsmouth and Belfast LUGs.


On Mozilla Hubs - spatially-dependent audio, because audio isn't 
complicated enough!


Come and hear (if your audio works) people you normally can't, as we 
share community activity with Linux & Libre groups outside Belfast.


So far:

- "a lightning beginner showcase on playing music on terminal through 
MOC" - Tai (Edinburgh)
- "a light-quick intro about how to create a song with 
jack/ardour/hydrogen" - Nic (Edinburgh)

- "Home office & OBS, a crash course" (TBC)
- "Audio in computers is hard, humans are the problem" - sigma (Belfast)
- "Rosegarden & Friends for Making Classical Extra-Classy (feat. 
Pipewire & Bonus Ardour)" - Phil (Belfast)


Still looking for 10min talks, so please keep me posted!

Do try out https://hubs.mozilla.com/  in 
advance to make sure, as we tempt the irony of ironies, that your audio 
fully works.


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Re: [Hampshire] Joint LUG Event: Lightning talks on Linux audio

[Gordon Scott via Hampshire]

On 29/09/2021 00:39, Paul Tansom via Hampshire wrote:
On Mozilla Hubs - spatially-dependent audio, because audio isn't 
complicated enough!


Hmm ... a triumph of cleverness over usability I think.

After trying to see ta shared screen without either having my view 
blocked by someone else, or blocking their view, I gave up. And that 
with only 16 of us at the time.  Maybe there's a more practical mode? 
I'm afraid my patience had expired after 10 minutes of trying.


Gordon.

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Re: [Hampshire] Joint LUG Event: Lightning talks on Linux audio

[Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire]

We've had enough problems now that we're going to move over to the 
BigBlueButton server we use for EdLUG: https://links.taikedz.net/?id=bbb-edlug

On Wed, 29 Sep 2021, at 19:15, Gordon Scott via Hampshire wrote:
> On 29/09/2021 00:39, Paul Tansom via Hampshire wrote:
>> On Mozilla Hubs - spatially-dependent audio, because audio isn't 
>> complicated enough!
>
> Hmm ... a triumph of cleverness over usability I think.
>
> After trying to see ta shared screen without either having my view 
> blocked by someone else, or blocking their view, I gave up. And that 
> with only 16 of us at the time.  Maybe there's a more practical mode? 
> I'm afraid my patience had expired after 10 minutes of trying.
>
> Gordon.
>
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Re: [Hampshire] Joint LUG Event: Lightning talks on Linux audio

[Gordon Scott via Hampshire]

I can see Mozilla Hubs working for a small group chat ... book club or 
similar.

It appears to me fundamentally flawed with a speaker and shared screen(s).

Was it recorded in any successful way?  I'd still like to listen.

Gordon.

On 29/09/2021 19:43, Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote:

We've had enough problems now that we're going to move over to the 
BigBlueButton server we use for EdLUG: https://links.taikedz.net/?id=bbb-edlug

On Wed, 29 Sep 2021, at 19:15, Gordon Scott via Hampshire wrote:

On 29/09/2021 00:39, Paul Tansom via Hampshire wrote:

On Mozilla Hubs - spatially-dependent audio, because audio isn't
complicated enough!

Hmm ... a triumph of cleverness over usability I think.

After trying to see ta shared screen without either having my view
blocked by someone else, or blocking their view, I gave up. And that
with only 16 of us at the time.  Maybe there's a more practical mode?
I'm afraid my patience had expired after 10 minutes of trying.

Gordon.

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Re: [Hampshire] Joint LUG Event: Lightning talks on Linux audio

[Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2021, at 09:25, Gordon Scott via Hampshire wrote:
> I can see Mozilla Hubs working for a small group chat ... book club or 
> similar.
> It appears to me fundamentally flawed with a speaker and shared screen(s).

Yeah, the need to position yourself close enough to the speaker to hear and 
where you can also see the screen seems like it's painstakingly recreating 
downsides of the real world which shouldn't affect online presentations.

I've used https://www.gather.town/ (not FOSS) for a work event before, which is 
a similar idea with a low-res 2D world. It also uses the idea that you can see 
& hear people near to you, but you can have a special square which allows 
anyone standing there to address the whole group, like a PA system. It worked 
pretty well, but even so, I think it only makes sense if you're planning to do 
things like breakout groups, not just presentations.

> Was it recorded in any successful way?  I'd still like to listen.

Sorry, as far as I know, there was no recording. Phil, please let me know if 
I'm wrong about that.

Best wishes,
Thomas

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