[ale] Recording & Distributing ALE meetings (was Re: ALE CENTRAL MTG. for 7:30pm on Thursday, February 17, 2011 CE (reprise))

[Ron Frazier]

1and1.com offers some shared hosting plans with no bandwidth cap. Also, 
libsyn also offers no bandwidth cap. I'm sure there are others.

Ron

On 02/16/2011 01:32 PM, arxaaron wrote:
> On 2011/02/16, at 11:18 , Preston Boyington wrote:
>    
>> Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
>> <snipped>
>>
>>      
>>> Additional resources:
>>> - Slides will be made available for download, as well as a list of
>>> links to reading material that will cover all of the topics mentioned
>>> in greater depth.
>>>        
>> any chance of a podcast of this also?  I really enjoyed the last you
>> provided.  (know it's time consuming and appreciate what you've done)
>>      
>
> We did a point to point Skypecast to the SPSU/ALE-NW group in
> January that worked pretty well.   It was a good proof of concept
> for the recording and transmission methods.  It also made it clear
> where the distribution processes need to be streamlined.
>
> I feel strongly that anything we do for capture or distribution needs
> to be transparent to the presenter and run entirely external to
> whatever system they use to present their slides or media.
> In addition, it needs to be extremely easy to set up and
> should require as little post production tweaking as possible.
> Bandwidth requirements for capture and distribution are also
> critical, so the lower the bandwidth needs the better.
>
> Goozbach (Derek) is presenting at CHUGALUG in Athens for
> their (third Thursday) meeting this week and I just loaned him my
> Zoom4 and some microphones for a presentation recording
> experiment they are running,  We didn't have much time to
> discuss the details when I handed off the equipment, but it sounds
> like an approach that would meet the criteria I just outlined above.
> If the methods work, then this would make podcasting of our
> meetings practical..
>
> On the same note, I've also been contacted this past week by
> Linux-etc<http://Linux-etc.com>, a Linux training a certification
> company, about contracting their [FLOSS based] webcast
> conferencing services.  They have an account set up in my
> name but I need find time to activate it and test the setup
> (and I won't have any time for that before March).
>
> The Linux-etc offering is a paid service, but the costs are pretty
> minimal and if we were to arrange to share the expense with
> associate groups or seek some donations it might be doable.
> The service could include direct recording at the server for
> distribution as a podcast, etc.
>
> More when we have details from the Athens experiment.
>
> peace
> aaron
>
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