[Imc-chicago-audio] Fw: [April] web streaming the conference

[Kelly Pierce]

This conference is in Washington not in the Chicago area.  We are
quite open to helping cover conferences and events in the Chicago
area.  Even if it were in Chicago, the focus of the inquiry seems to
be on web streaming rather than recording.  Unless the information
needs to be up to the minute or the conference is interactive,
recording with uploads within several days is a lot easier to produce
with higher quality.  The discussion forwarded also focuses on video
and we are the audio collective.  Audio remains more accessible and
usable by a much larger number of people than web video.  Spoken word
programming lends itself well to audio.  It may be useful to consider
your focus on video as the means of capturing the conference.

Kelly






On 3/1/11, NSC WORKERS COOP <nscchicago at igc.org> wrote:
> Tom here and another one
> to tell us the 1-2-3
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> Still one webcam,
> jeese.
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> From: Chuck Kaufman
> To: NSC WORKERS COOP
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:04 PM
> Subject: Fwd: [April] web streaming the conference
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> From: Barbara Larcom <barbara.larcom at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:54 AM
> Subject: Fwd: [April] web streaming the conference
> To: Chuck Kaufman <chuck at afgj.org>
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> Here's the minimal info I've gleaned so far on this.  On a related topic,
> Maurice Morales is typically willing to do videotaping for events like this,
> but he's so backed up he would probably need someone else to do any
> post-taping work to get the results out there.  Otherwise, you could wait
> for a year!
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> Barbara
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> From: Aaron Valentino <aaron.valentino at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [April] web streaming the conference
> To: Barbara Larcom <barbara.larcom at gmail.com>
> Cc: Tom Hyatt <thyatt at mica.edu>
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> Tom is probably better prepared to answer this than I.
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> Generally if you want to stream video in a usable manner whether for
> video-conferencing or other applications, you should have a pretty robust
> internet connection. In other words, a cable modem probably provides enough
> bandwidth (although maybe not, the upload speeds are significantly less than
> the download speeds, depending on your type of connection) but running it
> through a laptop that may be on wireless would reduce your bandwidth.
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> Anyway, just some things to think about.
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> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Barbara Larcom <barbara.larcom at gmail.com>
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>   Tom, Aaron, any ideas?
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>   Barbara
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>   From: Chuck Kaufman <chuck at afgj.org>
>   Date: Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:28 PM
>   Subject: [April] web streaming the conference
>   To: april2011 at lists.riseup.net
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>   Some time ago the suggestion was put forth to webstream some of the
> conference. I consulted with a videographer friend yesterday and he said it
> could be done as simply as signing up for an account on UStream and having a
> laptop with simple video camera -- even the one that comes installed in some
> -- and the laptop's mic or one plugged into a USB port. While this is the
> simplest solution (and I signed up for a UStream account just in case) the
> picture and sound quality will be about what you would expect.
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>   My question to the group is do you have anyone coming to the conference
> from among your group who is knowledgeable about the issues involved in web
> streaming and who would donate their expertise so that people who are unable
> to come to DC could benefit from the conference? It would also be great if
> afterwards we could make some of the talks available to watch/listen to on
> the LASC webpage.
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>   I am in no way competent to head up this effort, so I'm throwing this out
> their in the hopes that among us we have someone who is.
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>   Chuck Kaufman
>   Alliance for Global Justice
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