[wsfii-discuss] conferences online - WSFII and 2nd Nat Com WiFi Sumit

Wed Feb 15 08:48:15 UTC 2006

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:27:26PM +0000, Rob Dyke wrote:
> Anything that helps me reduce my carbon emissions. meetings are great  
> for building and nurturing relationships.... but international travel  
> is evil and must be punished (like my liver).
> 
> I think that extending meetings like the 2NS4CWN and WSFII online for  
> participants that are bandwidth rich and cash for travel tickets poor  
> is very very important.
> 
> I will volunteer bandwidth to the server ring for stream relay.
> 
> Can/will parts/whole of 2NS4CWN be available for online participation?

I suggest the transmission be done in Ogg Theora/Vorbis like York
Student Television is doing. It's a completely free format, no patents,
free software reference implementation.

CL<
> 
> /rob
> 
> 
> On 13 Feb 2006, at 01:02, kdag wrote:
> 
> >>   2. Re: Announcing the Second National Summit for     Community
> >>      Wireless Networks -- March 31-April 2,    2006.  St.  
> >>Charles, MO.
> >>      (Saul Albert)
> >
> >>Does anyone else think this is worth persuing? I'm thinking of  
> >>something
> >>extremely low-key, like a set of questions or a discussion about  
> >>broader
> >>world-wide issues that would be suited to a remote/streamed  
> >>format. Maybe
> >>a half day..
> >
> >
> >sounds great! low-key like this will be really nice:
> >http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotmde/dorkbot3.html
> >we used puredata on that one but can move to freej, that is even
> >easier to use via dynebolic..as you can see in the pictures here we
> >used IRC for the "conference" that was originated in medellin, and
> >received in Barcelona and somewhere in the alps.
> >http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotmde/terraza.html
> >
> >the only problem i see is translation for some people that dont speak
> >english...but there might be also realtime also text translation, is
> >not that complex..just using few IRC channels for translation and a
> >main one as "auditorium" that's what i call low-key...okey the server
> >ring for relaying the streams can be this one:
> >http://mcs.hackitectura.net/tiki-index.php?page=GISS
> >
> >im for it, when?
> >
> >:)
> >
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