[ok-edinburgh] UStream

Wed May 12 12:09:01 UTC 2010

Stuart,

Good point. I've added links to the wiki page.

- n.

stuart macdonald wrote:
> Hi Nicola - this all sounds grand. I'm looking forward to seeing the 
> quality of the resultant footage (live or otherwise)! I suppose it 
> begs the question as to whether we want to advertise the live stream 
> somewhere on the wiki?
>
> cheers
> Stuart
>
> On 12/05/2010 12:54, Nicola Osborne wrote:
>> So, I am confident about the live streaming working - I have tested 
>> it from my phone and it seems to work well, it should work even 
>> better in a space with microphones in use based on a stream I am 
>> currently watching of EIE 10. I will bring my phone along tomorrow 
>> along with my laptop so that both can be plugged in and remaind 
>> active through the day (apparently I can easily make a stand for my 
>> phone using a business card - the Instructables is marvellous ;)
>>
>> I should be able to add a link to the OKScotland wiki/tweet info for 
>> the streaming once set up at the venue tomorrow (it will likely be 
>> here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/open-knowledge-scotland). If it 
>> works, fab, if not then the Flip footage will allow a much higher 
>> quality version to be shared after the event. Hopefully both will 
>> work and so we can offer both live and recorded video.
>>
>> Tweets for the event are being stashed on TwapperKeeper: 
>> http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/okscotland and can thus be retrieved 
>> and analysed later. We can also add a widget for tweets that can be 
>> embedded on a webpage but I can't see an effective way to do this on 
>> the OKScotland wiki right now. If there are any good suggestions of a 
>> page to add streaming, recorded or twitter content that would be ace. 
>> Otherwise the Tweets are viewable on the UStream page so that should 
>> work during the event.
>>
>> - Nicola.
>>
>>
>>
>> Jo Walsh wrote:
>>> Nicola, thanks for this.
>>>
>>> On 30/04/2010 17:44, Nicola Osborne wrote:
>>>> Have seen this used fairly successfully before although I think it can
>>>> handle only a certain amount of traffic before it gets a little
>>>> crotchity (but I was watching an Apple launch so it likely had a
>>>> slightly larger audience than OK Scotland.
>>>>
>>>> I haven't tested it but would be very happy to try it out. Is there a
>>>> suitable camera available for use? I would worry about power for an
>>>> event of that length on anything I have at home (all primary stills
>>>> cameras) but I certainly have a tripod we could use and we could do an
>>>> initial test with a mac built-in camera or my regular digital camera
>>>> (which does short burst of video as needed).
>>>
>>> I have a flip cam with tripod that will do a couple of hours of 
>>> video then needs downloaded and deleted, hopefully that can capture 
>>> th core of the action (but no good for live streaming - is that 
>>> important tho?)
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>> jo
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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