Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

2008-05-02 Thread Jesse Keating
A team of folks took videos of various talks at Linux Fest Northwest. They want to offer direct downloads as an alternative to the flash based streams available at ustream.tv. I have tentatively offered (with stated caveat that Infrastructure had to approve) hosting space on the/a torrent server f

Re: Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

2008-05-02 Thread Mike McGrath
On Thu, 1 May 2008, Jesse Keating wrote: > A team of folks took videos of various talks at Linux Fest Northwest. > They want to offer direct downloads as an alternative to the flash based > streams available at ustream.tv. I have tentatively offered (with > stated caveat that Infrastructure had t

Re: Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

2008-05-02 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
Mike McGrath wrote: On Thu, 1 May 2008, Jesse Keating wrote: A team of folks took videos of various talks at Linux Fest Northwest. They want to offer direct downloads as an alternative to the flash based streams available at ustream.tv. I have tentatively offered (with stated caveat that Infra

Re: Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

2008-05-02 Thread Nigel Jones
On Sat, May 3, 2008 4:48 pm, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Mike McGrath wrote: >> On Thu, 1 May 2008, Jesse Keating wrote: >> >>> A team of folks took videos of various talks at Linux Fest Northwest. >>> They want to offer direct downloads as an alternative to the flash >>> based >>> streams available a

Re: Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

2008-05-02 Thread brett lentz
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Nigel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 3, 2008 4:48 pm, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > Mike McGrath wrote: > >> On Thu, 1 May 2008, Jesse Keating wrote: > >> > >>> A team of folks took videos of various talks at Linux Fest Northwest. > >>> They want

Re: Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

2008-05-03 Thread Matt Domsch
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:34:45PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > A team of folks took videos of various talks at Linux Fest Northwest. > They want to offer direct downloads as an alternative to the flash based > streams available at ustream.tv. I have tentatively offered (with > stated caveat that

Re: Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

2008-05-03 Thread Matt Domsch
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 08:53:06PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Thu, 1 May 2008, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > A team of folks took videos of various talks at Linux Fest Northwest. > > They want to offer direct downloads as an alternative to the flash based > > streams available at ustream.tv. I

Re: Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

2008-05-03 Thread Jesse Keating
On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 08:14 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > Mike and the team have been effective in securing donations from a > number of companies lately [1], with more in the works. Kudos! And > if we were talking about hosting a gig of files for direct download by > a few hundred people, we could

Re: Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

2008-05-03 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 20:48 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > Would these be torrented, or http direct download? Torrent. I did not make any mention of direct downloads as I understand that can be significantly more expensive for Fedora to manage. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (jkeating.livejournal.com)

Re: Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

2008-05-03 Thread Jesse Keating
On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 17:07 +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: > My question is: Does this have any tangible benefit to Fedora (are there > any talks that promote Fedora etc)? If so, then it's well worth > consideration, if not, well it's not worthless but it'd make me think > twice. > I gave two Fedora

Re: Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

2008-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
2008/5/2 Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For the current need I think we're way way scaled down from fedoratv > days. All I currently want to do is take the videos once converted, > upload them to the/a torrent server and offer them up as torrents for a > period of time. And while this m

Re: Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

2008-05-03 Thread Mike McGrath
On Sat, 3 May 2008, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 08:53:06PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > > On Thu, 1 May 2008, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > > > A team of folks took videos of various talks at Linux Fest Northwest. > > > They want to offer direct downloads as an alternative to the fla

Re: Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

2008-05-03 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:36:59AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2008, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > > In my mind, we need: > > 1) additional people in the infrastructure team to help with the admin > >side of this. > > > > 1a) there's a need for existing infrastructure team members to

Re: Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

2008-05-03 Thread Jesse Keating
On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 10:33 -0400, Jeffrey Tadlock wrote: > > My suggestion would be (if current resources allow for it - people and > hardware) that we start with hosting Fedora specific videos. Use this > as a pilot program. It is easier to justify as the content is > directly related to Fedor

Re: Hosting Linux Fest Northwest Videos on torrent

2008-05-03 Thread Matt Domsch
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 12:35:25PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 10:33 -0400, Jeffrey Tadlock wrote: > > > > My suggestion would be (if current resources allow for it - people and > > hardware) that we start with hosting Fedora specific videos. Use this > > as a pilot progra