Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Leo Lapworth
On 11 March 2011 00:55, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Is this a logistical nightmare? I've had a few people say they wished they > could have made tonight... If you wish to get the presenters written permission, and check if the venu is ok for each technical meeting, then actually video the talks and

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Jason Clifford
On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 08:17 +, Leo Lapworth wrote: > If you wish to get the presenters written permission, and check if the > venu is ok for each technical meeting, then actually video the talks > and upload them I'm sure http://www.presentingperl.org/ would > host them. > > But a live webcast

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 11 Mar 2011, at 08:42, Jason Clifford wrote: > How about a single stream webcast from the venue which is then proxied > by an external host which doesn't have the same bandwidth or other > resource limits? Yeah, it's pretty easy to whack that pipeline together (if you have the bits in both sen

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Leo Lapworth
On 11 March 2011 08:53, Andy Armstrong wrote: > On 11 Mar 2011, at 08:42, Jason Clifford wrote: >> How about a single stream webcast from the venue which is then proxied >> by an external host which doesn't have the same bandwidth or other >> resource limits? > > Yeah, it's pretty easy to whack th

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 11 Mar 2011, at 09:01, Leo Lapworth wrote: > On 11 March 2011 08:53, Andy Armstrong wrote: >> On 11 Mar 2011, at 08:42, Jason Clifford wrote: >>> How about a single stream webcast from the venue which is then proxied >>> by an external host which doesn't have the same bandwidth or other >>> r

Slides from last night

2011-03-11 Thread Peter Sergeant
If you weren't there at the talk, these probably won't make all that much sense to you... http://www.slideshare.net/petersergeant/highlevel-web-testing -P

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 11/03/2011 09:53, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Also, balls to the linux/ffmpeg thing. Stop being hippies and use Ustream.tv. It was good enough for our wedding which we livecast and got a couple of hundred viewers worldwide. Great, so you have the experience and are volunteering to do the next one

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Michael Lush
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: On 11 Mar 2011, at 09:01, Leo Lapworth wrote: I'm not sure what the advantage of a live webcast is over someone uploading it the next day? It would also be better to have it available for posterity rather than just live (I'm sure both could be done).

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 11 Mar 2011, at 10:24, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > On 11 Mar 2011, at 10:05, Simon Wilcox wrote: > >> On 11/03/2011 09:53, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >>> Also, balls to the linux/ffmpeg thing. Stop being hippies and use >>> Ustream.tv. >>> It was good enough for our wedding which we livecast and

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 11 Mar 2011, at 10:05, Simon Wilcox wrote: > On 11/03/2011 09:53, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> Also, balls to the linux/ffmpeg thing. Stop being hippies and use Ustream.tv. >> It was good enough for our wedding which we livecast and got a couple of >> hundred >> viewers worldwide. > > Great, so

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Andy Armstrong
>> Yeah, it's pretty easy to whack that pipeline together (if you have the bits >> in both senses). Linux laptop, webcam, ffmpeg, script in $language, server. > > And when we have a meeting in a Pub with no internet? - or the venu doesn't > allow non-employees on their network - etc etc etc Then

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 11 Mar 2011, at 10:28, Andy Armstrong wrote: >>> Yeah, it's pretty easy to whack that pipeline together (if you have the >>> bits in both senses). Linux laptop, webcam, ffmpeg, script in $language, >>> server. >> >> And when we have a meeting in a Pub with no internet? - or the venu doesn't

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:28:04AM +, Andy Armstrong wrote: > >> Yeah, it's pretty easy to whack that pipeline together (if you have the > >> bits in both senses). Linux laptop, webcam, ffmpeg, script in $language, > >> server. > > > > And when we have a meeting in a Pub with no internet? -

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Richard Clamp
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:40:04AM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > I had enough people saying they wished they could have been there to lead > me to believe the audience would have been much larger. People will generally do this, it's called being nice. A: "I'm performing tomorrow, you should com

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Mark Keating
On 11/03/2011 08:17, Leo Lapworth wrote: On 11 March 2011 00:55, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Is this a logistical nightmare? I've had a few people say they wished they could have made tonight... If you wish to get the presenters written permission, and check if the venu is ok for each technical mee

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 11 Mar 2011, at 10:46, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Surely the dynamic will effectively switch from "theater" to "live studio > broadcast". In which case, why not go the whole hog and make *decent* > screencasts that act better as Marketing? Alternately it might make the event more 'real' in some se

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Michael Lush
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Nicholas Clark wrote: A & B: You want it live? No worries, you don't need to attend. At which point, what's the incentive for attending? Speaking personally the incentive to attend any meeting is facetime with people I know and networking with people I don't. The reason

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:53:47AM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > People seem to like live stuff. Some weird psychological immediacy thing. God knows why. The reason I wasn't there is that I had something better to do. That means that I wouldn't have been able to watch a live broadcast anyway.

Spark slides from last night

2011-03-11 Thread James Laver
Are available here: http://jameslaver.com/presentations/spark/ If you're interested in helping out with v2 (especially with docs!) or you have ideas for v3, please get in touch on here or on irc.perl.org #spark /j

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
On 11/03/2011 11:09, Michael Lush wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Nicholas Clark wrote: A & B: You want it live? No worries, you don't need to attend. At which point, what's the incentive for attending? Speaking personally the incentive to attend any meeting is facetime with people I know and ne

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Andrew Black
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:01:38AM +, Leo Lapworth wrote: > I'm not sure what the advantage of a live webcast is over someone uploading it > the next day? It would also be better to have it available for > posterity rather than just live (I'm sure both > could be done). I agree with Leo. If

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:53, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Also, balls to the linux/ffmpeg thing. Stop being hippies and use Ustream.tv. > ustream.tv is the right answer these days for ad-hoc video; some others are better if you want a whiteboard/chat. There are even solutions that use bonded mobile