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On 12/04/2011 9:45 PM, Peter wrote:
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On 10/04/11 12:09, James Bromberger wrote:
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This week's meeting in Katanning! <font color="#000000"><span
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Thanks for an excellent first 'Virtual meeting' guys. Can't say
I'm an expert in .... whatever the guy in the yellow shirt was on
about (sorry Harry) but Jim and I enjoyed the company and the
pizza.Now that the first few kinks have been ironed out, it should
be even better next time.<br>
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So a baptism by fire was the main approach tonight; having installed
the machines we just about managed to cobble together everything and
test it almost in time! Clearly we need to sped a bit more attention
to the audio feed, and the encoding was pretty useless on the screen
capture - too blurry/small when encoded at 360 x 288! But it was a
start and as a proof of concept, I think it worked - so the AV team
are going to get thinking caps on and try and put a proposal
together for funding; PLUG doesn't have any cameras, tripods, nor a
PC fast enough that is fully working to encode the stream in real
time (we borrowed a shell account on a UCC machine tonight to do
that - thanks Bob). <br>
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I'll move the rest of my more detailed thoughts to the AV list;
anyone who would like to help play with this please join this list:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/av">http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/av</a><br>
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Of course, thank to Harry for giving the talk, and putting up with
me asking him to repeat questions so our virtual guests could hear!<br>
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will be pizza and hopefully even more good company in Katanning in
a few weeks time.<br>
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Excellent. And more people hopefully too. If anyone else further
afield wants to "host" a regional PLUG get together to watch stream,
and chat back via IRC, please let us know.<br>
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AV team.... and everyone else.<br>
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You're welcome. Tonight's stream was done by Jason Nichols, Mark
Tearle, Peter Lyons and myself. However, much of the groundwork was
also from Tim Bowden, and Nick Bannon as we've worked several
evenings to get systems installed, and basic testing.<br>
<br>
Some of you on the stream would have seen the PLUG video intro I
quickly jammed together. Its not very PLUG branded (just a
collection of my mostly PLUG pictures from 2002-2003). If we have
any budding digital artists on list who would like to help do
something better, speak up! Jingles, idents, logos, etc. Again, on
the AV list please!<br>
<br>
Next month we're in Fremantle at Nautronix for Carl Gharardi's talk
on IPv6. I've also confirmed today that June will be at IBM in west
Perth with a talk on High Performance Computing (perhaps they can
encode our ogg/theora stream:) )? And July will be James Henstridge
talking about Ubuntu One - the Canonical Cloud offering (venue yet
to be confirmed). The PLUG calendar on the web site is updated with
all this.<br>
<br>
If you have a talk on a subject you'd liek to give, please let us
know. If you'd like to do a 5 minute Lightning Talk as well, with no
slides, just a stand-and-tell-it presentation, we can do that too.<br>
<br>
If your membership is not up to date, please visit
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://secure.plug.org.au/about/bank-account">https://secure.plug.org.au/about/bank-account</a> for our bank account
details and costs so you can do an electronic transfer to PLUG, and
then let committee know (we do have an online sign up form, but its
notionally being moved between servers at the moment...). PLUG has
39 members, and 350 people lurking on this list. $10/year is not a
lot of money (and concession/student is $5/year) - not exactly a
huge amount, and something we are considering increasing, so sign up
now before we increase it! ;)<br>
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Other PLUG news; in the last month PLUG has received its ABN (and a
TFN), and it's own PO Box (well done Peter L)! We're now going
through the motions of updating the various bodies that need these
details (Fair Trading, our Bank, etc). We're also updating the list
of office bearers with Fair Trading, and shortly we'll have a few
constitutional changes (always a can of worms, but it will be simple
stuff to start with, like quorum numbers at AGMs as a % of
membership, not a number that is greater than the number of members
that PLUG has!). And not to mention the reasonably successful Quiz
Night we had at the end of March, which may become an annual event -
meanwhile "PLUG in the pub" is on again next month (its every 2
months, unless there's popular demand otherwise)!<br>
<br>
James<br>
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