[Coco] CoCoFest Webcam, IRC, anything?

[Aaron Wolfe]

Although videos will be great, I was also hoping for some sort of
interaction, whether via Skype, upstream chat, etc so that folks who can't
make it can say hi, ask questions etc.  May or may not be possible, hotels
wireless and cell signals at the event site were both fairly awful last
year.
On May 18, 2011 11:34 PM, "Frank Pittel" <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:
> I don't know what the upstream bandwidth speed is at the hotel but would
> think that's it's rather slow considering that it would be a shared
> resource for entire hotel. I may check it on Saturday just to know. :-)
>
> To be honest with the exception of the presentations I don't think there's
> much going on at the fest that would make for an interesting live stream.
> It's a group of people in a largish room talking about various aspects of
> the coco. A lot of fun to be at but I couldn't imagine spending a lot of
time
> at home watching the events at the fest through a live camera.
>
> I think that Steve's idea of recording the event complete with interviews,
etc
> for later viewing would be much more interesting to watch. As memory
serves
> Al does that to an extent and offers dvds of the fest. They're very
interesting
> to watch. I just don't think a live feed of us sitting around eating lunch
would
> make for very interesting viewing. :-) :-)
>
> The Other Frank
>
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 08:42:25PM -0700, Steve Bjork wrote:
>> I'm bring recording equipment (Mixer, Mics, cables and Hi-Def Video
>> Camera) to record interviews and such. We could also use the
>> equipment to record a live CoCo Conference for posting later on
>> YouTube.
>>
>> As for doing live Skype out, we don't have the bandwidth for more
>> than one or two callers on line. I do have a Ustream account and
>> maybe we can get something out with that. But the odds are low for
>> getting video out of the Hotel because of their low upload speed.
>>
>> I did look into Livestream Livepack but I did not have $2500 rent
>> plus $2500 deposit for handy. So much for a live remote.
>>
>> Steve Bjork
>>
>>
>> On 5/18/2011 7:32 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>> >I am already up in Illinois, and will make every effort to help get
>> >some kind of internet feed working at the fest this weekend. There
>> >may be others working on this already, not sure.
>> >
>> >The hope is to have another "coco conference" from the fest if
>> >possible. Scheduling will have to be sort of dynamic but will post to
>> >the list anything I find out.
>> >
>> >-Aaron
>> >
>> >
>>
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