Re: Things to bring along for FOSDEM

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Professionally organized conferences (like http://en.wikipedia.org/ 
wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress ) will of course offer you A/V  
capabilities, they will even record the sessions for you:

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/wiki/Conference_Recordings

But not everybody can do this, especially not a bunch of volunteer  
students with limited budget (remember: FOSDEM is free like in speech  
AND in beer) which organize FOSDEM.

So we record ourselves just over the air with the camera build in  
microphones. Not the best quality and a little bit improvisational  
though but it helps to keep the effort at a reasonable level. But  
nevertheless thanks for the advices!

cheers,

        Lars

Am 02.02.2011 um 02:32 schrieb Robert Slover:

> I used to do A/V for (very) large seminars here in the states.   
> Invariably the larger ballrooms and conference halls had a speaker  
> system, but smaller conference rooms often didn't have separate  
> systems (many times, smaller conference rooms were just a larger  
> room with partitions pulled across to divide up the space).  Most  
> of the time, it was not worth the effort to deal with what you  
> would find, it was easier to bring everything you could possibly need.
>
> If you do go that route, you need to have a decent-sized arsenal of  
> connectors and adaptors.  Mic circuits are generally going to be  
> balanced XLR, often powered, which isn't going to be something you  
> can simply plug your laptop into.  A small mixing console,  
> typically something with several high impedance inputs and XLR and  
> line-level RCA outputs is very useful.  It's sort of the Swiss-army- 
> knife tool when doing this sort of thing.  You can call ahead to  
> the hotel to try to get some idea of their facilities, but in my  
> experience I rarely found someone who understood enough to answer  
> my questions accurately.
>
> --Robert
>
> On Feb 1, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Ivan Vučica wrote:
>
> > I have not been to FOSDEM; but how come lecture halls don't have  
> > some sort of organizer-provided speaker system? Almost any public  
> > speech I have been to in Croatia had one (for use with microphone)  
> > -- isn't it easier to plug laptop into that?
> >
> > (All the talk about FOSDEM on this list warmed me up to it,  
> > hopefully one of these years I'll be able to go :-))
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ivan Vučica
> > via phone
> >
> > On 2. vel. 2011., at 00:22, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf  
> > <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > it would be nice if somebody could bring one of the following  
> > > things to FOSDEM:
> > >
> > > - a pair of computer speakers
> > > - a second projector (we'll get one from the FOSDEM organizers)  
> > > with adapters
> > > - some printed out material (flyers, brochures and so on)
> > > - Live-CDs anyone? (we could bring blank CD-Roms or DVDs and burn  
> > > them ad hoc)
> > >
> > > What do we need that for? Gregory Casamento is presumably giving  
> > > his speech via Skype. We did something similar before when David  
> > > Chisnall gave his speach via iChat:
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSQaROKGIsY
> > >
> > > From that experience we know that the build in speakers of a  
> > > computer are to silent and that the screen of a laptop is to small.
> > >
> > > we would need the flyers and brochures for people to take away so  
> > > they have something printed about GNUstep in their hands
> > >
> > >
> > > Btw. Tim Käck will bring a tripod plus video camera so we can  
> > > record the talks. I will bring a small router and a multiple  
> > > plug. Bring your own ethernet cables!
> > >
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > >
> > >   Lars
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