Drupalcon video archiving (and streaming?)
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Posted on: Thu, 02/07/2008 - 7:48pm
Drupalcon video archiving (and streaming?)
Last year I videotaped and uploaded many of the Barcelona Drupalcon sessions, and once again I’m planning to help with video archiving at Drupalcon Boston.
Volunteers and equipment are needed! Videographers, video cameras and other equipment are needed if we’re going to cover all simultaneous sessions. Laptops are needed if we want to do live video streaming. Audio recording can also be useful if we don’t have enough video cameras. Comment here if you can help and the Drupalcon team will follow up with you.
Donate :) I setup a ChipIn to cover the cost of video tapes etc. Depending on the community’s generosity it could also help cover my travel costs to attend Drupalcon.
Update: Please signup for the audio/video meetup and rehearsal at 4 p.m. on Sunday!
I can bring a video camera to be used for this — it’s nothing fancy, only consumer quality, but it’s available.
Cheers,
Bill
My buddy has a camera and tripod we’re already planning on bringing. Could be used for a few sessions probably, I’ll ask if he’s willing to share ;)
And for anyone interested, check this out and give us some feedback… drupal meets diggnation?
~Jerad
Yeah, I wouldn’t have any problem recording a few sessions. The camera is really nothing special but it gets the job done.
http://thethisorthat.com
http://groups.drupal.org/node/8404
Great that we are getting volunteers - as I’ve mentioned in the above entry, we need to focus on audio and also digital devices - ie how quickly can we get footage to ftp?
The Drupalcon team will be providing some tripods, one of the main things to check may be whether you can connect your camera to the sound desk, whether you’ll require a proprietary cable or regular XLR or mini-jack.
I’m going to be adding the slides to videos (as the presenters are fantastic, but watching them hold a mic and gesticulate isn’t as valuable as seeing these) and titles etc. Should have details of the ftp for this in the next few days, in the meantime it would be great if you can add to the above page - perhaps add the equipment you can supply/output formats etc.
Thanks all for volunteering! We could use everyone’s help as there are 4 session rooms to cover. Video recording would be great but audio recording is probably most important.
The latest info I have from the AV company is that each room will have mics and a Mackie mixer you can plug in to for sound recording. The mixers will have RCA outputs, possibly other outputs available too. To work with this ideally your camera would have line-level inputs (unfortunately some camcorders only have mic-level input).
For sound-only recording it would be fine to plug a laptop into the mixer, no fancy AV gear really needed.
I can bring my Canon HV20 to videotape a couple sessions, as well, if interested.
If you can make it, please sign up for our A/V meetup and rehearsal Sunday at 4 p.m.:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/9210
Please bring any gear you will be using or can lend to the cause. See you there!
If you can’t make it, come to the A/V setup bright and early Monday morning at 7:45 a.m. :)
I have a very old (7 years old) camcorder, would that suffice?
I’m stuck in “the old world” (aka “Yurop”), hoping to catch some of the sessions I’ll be missing. When will these be available online?
And how will they be distributed? BitTorrent might be a good idea..?
Thank you all for volunteering to do this!
http://sgluskin.podomatic.com
Here are some pics of the keynote at flickr:
http://flickr.com/photos/sgluskin/sets/72157604036546908/
content2zero
Some audio and video is slowly being uploaded to archive.org, http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=DrupalCon%20Boston%202008
e.g. merlinofchaos’ session: http://www.archive.org/details/DrupalconBoston2008-Panels2AndNodequeue
By the way if anyone has material to contribute to these items on archive.org, let us know. We’re using one shared account to FTP files to archive.org
Not sure if you were the guy that video-taped our session: What’s in a Theme: The power of enterprise level theming (http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/session/whats-theme-power-enterprise-lev...)?
If so - Is there any way we can purchase a copy of the original DV?