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Hello all,<br>
<br>
As you may have seen, PLUG has taken to live video streaming and
recording its monthly tech presentations. We've had over 40 people
download the video (separate IP addresses) since it was put up,
which is a great result. As you would have seen, we're getting a bit
more polished every time; last week we had our audio mixing desk in
use for the first time which meant we had two microphones going; the
audio does sound better in the result, but we know we need more mics
(eg: to get audience questions).<br>
<br>
There are several reasons why we are doing this:<br>
<ul>
<li>Not everyone in Perth can make it every month; it may be too
far to travel, or something else comes up, but you may have the
time to watch at home</li>
<li>Not every PLUG member is in Perth - some are scattered across
Western Australia, some interstate</li>
<li>We're using open source software to do this - so we're feeding
back experience into the community</li>
<li>We're getting enough crew ready and practices that perhaps one
day, PLUG could look at hosting Linux.Conf.Au again -- which
these days does live video streams of every session</li>
</ul>
<br>
However, the AV project needs... more helpers! There's a fair bit of
kit -- not just to move around, but also operate -- to make the
presentation run smoothly. No experience is necessary, just
subscribe to the AV mailing list at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/av">http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/av</a>, and come along to any
of the projects workshop meetings, and up as early as possible to
the presentations. You don't need to commit to come to <i>every</i>
session; if we have enough people then we can hopefully get enough
people at each session. <br>
<br>
So, if you'd like to support open source, help others who are remote
to participate, get PLUG up to speed to prepare for future LCA bids,
or just want to learn some AV skills, please subscribe to the
mailing list and come along and play with the kit. Your feedback
from watching the streams is also valuable to us!<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
James<br>
<br>
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<em>Mobile:</em> +61 422 166 708, <em>Email:</em>
james_AT_rcpt.to<br>
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