[ok-edinburgh] UStream

Wed May 12 14:14:36 UTC 2010

LOL

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Robin Rice <R.Rice at ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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