[wsfii-discuss] International collaborations during the Community Wireless Summit [was: Announcing the Second National Summit...]

Sat Feb 25 16:05:32 UTC 2006

hia, sorry to intervine again,

but theres this GISS network, yes and "infrastructure" for
streaming...as said before i can try to get some mountpoints for the
case.

http://mcs.hackitectura.net/tiki-index.php?page=GISS

and theres also freej than encodes in ogg/theora..

freej /dev/video0 -s 160x120 -T 6 -V 3 -i ice.aca.co:8002/communa.ogg -p du

Ramon, will like to make it between whatever comes up in cataluya and
medellin at least, so please keep me posted.

:)

/alejo

On 2/25/06, Saul Albert <saul at twenteenthcentury.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 12:58:11PM -0600, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> > Friday is pre-conference, but we could set up something in the morning.
> > Ideally, we could do this on Saturday morning during the "International
> > Wireless Networks" session -- or even during both times.  It would be
> > fantastic to have representatives from all over the world be a part of the
> > discussion.  The session runs from 10:30am-12:30pm (GMT -6).  We could set
> > up some sort of audio and/or video feed, get an IRC backchannel set up, etc.
>
> That sounds great. So, for London, that would be 4:30pm - 6:30pm on
> Saturday 1st April. That makes a lot of sense because there's a huge arty
> party event kicking off at Limehouse Town Hall at about 7pm that evening,
> so anyone who comes to the session would immediately be able to go and
> get drunk and dance.
>
> What kinds of technologies can the knowledgeable people on this list
> recommend?
>
> I would probably take a recipe from http://www.streamingsuitcase.com/ and
> do some kind of ogg-theora-based two-way streaming thing, but that could
> be quite bandwidth-intensive if more people joined, watched and wanted to
> make video streams from their localities.
>
> Doea anyone have scalable and simple solutions to this?
>
> Audio with IRC backchannel sounds good, but it would maybe be better to
> have 'updates' style structured micro-presentations (10 mins?) from
> international free networkers, then discussion based in CU - with the IRC
> backchannel open to all. That would also get over the language issue to
> some extent.  If someone wants to present in Spanish, perhaps a
> translator in CU can be found...
>
> I doubt I have the best ideas on this front, however..
>
> Cheers,
>
> Saul.
>
>
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