[PLUG-AV] Issue with streaming (but not recording) for next PLUG Meeting May 10th 2011

[Harry McNally]

James

On venues, I have considered the Collins Street Centre in South Perth. It's
about 100m from the bus stops on Canning Highway (so 106 is a bus option).
The venue costs $25 to $35 per hour IIRC.

What is lacks is a network connection but if ever it was useful for an
installfest or so on then wireless broadband and a local mirror could be an
option. Bookings are essential for the venue. We did have a talk there for
PLUG in Meeting Room 2 (upstairs) but the main hall is quite large.

Another venue that may be had for modest cost is the hall attached to St
Martins in the Fields church in Kensington. Again, wireless broadband would be
needed.

Finding council facilities with reasonable internet access may be the go.
The George Burnett Centre in Manning has office staff and I assume an internet
connection.

I once checked out the venue at Tech Park and it was available but internet
access was charged at $35 per attendee!

On moving the venue around, I suspect there are a lot of armchair PLUG list
users who will give you all the reasons why they can't get to a venue. I think
they are just excused to explain their shiny trousers. Just keep on with talks
at venues that are easy to find and use and make the topics the focus. I think
having regular talks will create the momentum to bring people out to the
talks. If you reach more people with streaming then a smaller venue is
possible too.

As an aside, Trent (lathiat) runs big LANs so he has gear and may be able to
offer advice on network connectivity in venues. I think the last one they had
at Cannington Greyhounds (hauled in power trucks and all sorts). Could be a
useful discussion.

Harry

On 26/04/11 11:02, James Bromberger wrote:
>   Hello all,
> 
> First up, we're still on for tomorrow evening (from around 6 to 10)  at
> my house for working on AV kit. I'm not keen for the exact address to be
> in the archives forever so I wont put it here, but we're in Ardross/Mt
> Pleasant; email me directly if you intend to come or call my number
> below. We'll organise some pizza at some stage; please bring whatever
> you'd like to drink and enough to share with others (so, a big bottle).
> 
> Next up, we have an issue for the next PLUG Meeting on May 10th; the
> venue has requested that we do not stream live from their location as
> they wish to review the content before it is disseminated. They are
> happy for the speaker (an employee) to say whatever they want if the
> talk happens at another location, but if it is from their location, they
> would like to review first. This comes from their position as a defence
> contractor, and thus being a little concerned as to what gets seen.
> 
> This means we have two options:
> 
>    1. Find an alternate venue with bandwidth and stream from there
>    2. Proceed with current venue, record the session, encode it, offer
>       it for review, and then post it for viewing
> 
> 
> The only venues that come to mind with bandwidth are FutureSphere in
> Claremont, Artifactory in Osborne Park, and UCC at UWA in Crawley. The
> presence of stairs is a negative for me at UCC and FutureSphere -
> lugging (!) these systems up and down is not fun. No other suggestions
> have come up from ctte over the last three days we've been looking at
> this, and there is some interest in actually going to this company's
> location (I am not mentioning them by name, as they are being generous
> enough to host us).
> 
> *I am sorry to say, but I think the decision needs to be that we will
> have to record the next PLUG presentation and post it on-line after
> review.* I've been trying to resist this as I know that makes it
> difficult for you, Peter, trying to get things started in Katanning, and
> others who would like to watch remotely.
> 
> I've also had some feedback on the location of the PLUG talks via the
> Facebook poll I set up yesterday - through only three responses. We've
> been moving the venue around for the last few months to try and shake
> people out who have given up coming to PLUG - many people said that the
> long-term venue we had been at was too difficult/far to get to. From the
> poll, it seems we need to settle down again, but also be somewhere more
> central. So, we potentially need to find an accommodating location in
> the CBD. The Moon & Six Pence may be one option, but there may be
> others. We must have bandwidth available if streaming is to happen.
> *Does anyone here know of any suitable organisations that would permit
> us to meet in their meeting rooms, and have access to their bandwidth,
> outside of normal business hours?*
> 
> *Just in case that's not clear, I'm looking for all 11 people on the AV
> list to contribute to this discussion! :)*
> 
> I'll be taking the long term venue discussion to the main PLUG list
> shortly, but the more immediate issue is the limitation on streaming for
> May 10th.
> 
>   James
> PS: Hope to see you tomorrow (Wednesday) to play with the kit and get a
> test stream running.
> 
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> 
> 
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