[ok-edinburgh] UStream

Wed May 12 13:07:47 UTC 2010

I was thinking, have I heard the word 'filming?'
where would the videos be displayed? (presume on the website)

and omg what do I wear?

P

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Nicola Osborne <nicola.osborne at ed.ac.uk>wrote:

> 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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