[ok-edinburgh] UStream

Wed May 12 14:02:53 UTC 2010

Paola, we've scheduled you in the nude session. Hope that's okay ;-)

Paola Di Maio wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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