[plug] PLUG August meeting venue, Tue 20120814-1900, was Re: PLUG AV night

[Ian Kent]

On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 21:50 +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 07:27:44AM +0800, Paul Del - Simplifying Information Technology wrote:
> > Re; PLUG AV Tues night 14th August
> 
> Thanks for scoping it out, Paul. Sounds like we're best off not competing
> with the dance, so this time next week the PLUG meeting venue will be
> at the UWA Cameron Hall loft, care of the UCC: http://www.ucc.asn.au/
> This should fit in nicely with the UCC's series of tech talks, recent
> highlights including an introduction to Python and the intersection of
> encryption and the law. (Sadly not recorded as far as I know, but there
> may be some slides?)
> 
> Details are on the PLUG calendar as usual, which you can see on:
> 	http://www.plug.org.au/
> 
> PLUG Talk - AV Project
> When: Tue, 14 August, 19:00 - 21:30
> Where: UWA's Cameron Hall loft - upstairs from UCC, Hackett Drive Entrance #2
> 	Crawley, Western Australia
> Description:
>   Euan De Kock and Jason Nicholls on PLUGs Audio Video Project.  The talk
>   will discuss the PLUG AV Team, the technologies we are using, how we
>   film and record the audio, how we stream it, and convert the final
>   file. We'll cover Audio and Video formats, The dvswitch tools, ffmpeg
>   etc. We'll look at the hardware stack, Firewire, DV Video standards,
>   and the audio mixing and recording stream. We'll also briefly cover
>   the tally light system and how we use mumble. Finally we'll take a
>   quick look at future directions, SDI, Flumotion and gstreamer. The
>   talk will be co-presented by Euan and Jason.
> 
> Unfortunately our regular City West Lotteries House venue isn't available
> for the next three months at our usual time, which is why we were checking
> out other ones again. If anyone has access to a suitable venue, such as a
> mid-sized office conference room wired to some ADSL Internet connection,
> committee at plug.org.au would love to hear from you - CWLH is lovely and
> accessible, but it's not always available and it is $93.60 a go. Our
> main requirement at an office-type venue is one or two local contacts
> who can let us in and are hopefully keen to attend the meeting.
> 
> > There is a dance thing on Tuesday nights at the manning bowls club so it
> > will be quite noisy I'm told.
> > (It was last night when we had an event on a Tuesday night)
> > How ever Wednesday nights are usually much more free.
> > I have not been able to get hold of the guy who looks after the comp
> > network and web stuff, so i can't confirm Internet connection availability.
> 
> We're not tied to second Tuesdays forever, but we'll keep this month at
> its scheduled time. If we get a chance to confirm the Internet access
> at some stage it could definitely be handy. Thanks.

fyi,

My schedule has changed now, Mondays and Wednesdays aren't good so, for
me, Tuesday is a better day.

> 
> Nick.
>