[Grants] Grant Application from Jennifer Sims for Sports Connection Australia - Gender Diverse Sporting Streaming

[Kathy Reid]

Hi everyone,

The key benefit I see from supporting this Grant would be to have a 
replicable and repeatable event streaming solution, that could be used 
not just by Sports Connection Australia, but by other groups looking for 
a similar solution. The diversity angle here that I see is about greater 
audience engagement in activities, facilitated by open source solutions 
- but please let me know if I've mis-interpreted that.

To this end, there are some questions which highlight how this request 
could be more strongly aligned to Linux Australia's goals.

- Some specifics around the cost breakdown would be helpful, for example 
what equipment would be purchased to work with the OBS platform? What is 
the expected lifespan of the equipment - I'm very aware that many 
devices have a usable life of only 2-3 years these days (sadly). Are 
there costings available for that equipment?

- Would there be documentation written and made openly available so that 
the solution could be replicated by other groups, therefore meaning that 
the Grant, if funded, has higher impact?

- Are there milestones or phases for this Grant (which is 20% of the 
Grants pool for this year) - for example, Step 1 might be "get OBS 
working with hardware" and Step 2 might be "document the solution" while 
Step 3 might be "have someone else validate the solution works with a 
different event"?

I also want to acknowledge the efforts Jen and her team put into audio 
visual at Everything Open 2024 in Gladstone, which was all done on a 
volunteer basis. This speaks to Jen's knowledge around this space, and 
the potential for this Grant to contribute to a replicable, repeatable 
solution for streaming events using open source software.

Kind regards,

Kathy Reid

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On 16/7/24 22:10, Linux Australia Website wrote:
> Your Email Address: jeneralpain at kingstoncityrollers.com.au
> Project name: Sports Connection Australia - Gender Diverse Sporting Streaming
> Grant Type: Community Grant
> Aim of the project: The aim of this project is to utilise open source software (OBS) to live stream roller derby events from around Victoria for sporting teams that do not have the financial or technological backing to share their sport with the world. Currently, roller derby gets no grant support, and we have some of the highest participation of Gender Diverse and Neurodiverse skaters. The team behind SCA are an offshoot of Kingston City Rollers which recently won a gold level award for LGBTI participation. We want to support open source, and our team came up and supported "Everything Open 2024" for an in-kind (some expenses covered by the event) to live stream the event to the world along with recording it.
> The key milestone is to provide streaming for multiple events across the year using these funds. It will allow us to purchase products that allow us to make best use of the OBS platform to live stream.
> Estimated cost breakdown of the project: The total cost is $2000 to purchase components for the live stream
> Project team details: Jennifer "Jeneral Pain" Sims - Technical Stream - jennifer at sportsconnectionaustralia.com.au
> Nick "Bullseye" Brown - Technical Support - nick at sportsconnectionaustralia.com.au
> Corinne "Exy" Christie - Minister for War and Finance - corinne at sportsconnectionaustralia.com.au
> (Exy keeps Jeneral and Bullseye in check, keeps the finances and the cray ideas under control)
> "Exy" founded Sports Connection Australia as a way to bring the LGBTI support to the sporting teams. Previously there was minimal support to sporting teams but its taking much more great significance as more continues. Jennifer has provided in-kind support via SCA through to LCA for Everything Open 2024 and more.
> Nick and Jennifer both contribute to the open source software that the roller derby scoreboard operates (http://www.github.com/rollerderby/scoreboard)
> We're a big proponent of Open Source, Open Gender, Open diversity, we want no boundaries, we want everyone to come, enjoy our sport, because everyone loves the thrills and spills, and even more so, loves that roller derby is "an everyone sport, no matter your size, gender, identity, sexuality etc".
> First Name: Jennifer
> Last Name: Sims
> Email Address: jennifer at sportsconnectionaustralia.com.au
> A statement including a willingness to provide regular project updates on the project: As part of this project, we would be providing constant updates as required for the team to be satisified that this community grant has gone to a good home. We know that money these days is tight for everyone, (interest rates, politics mutter mutter), but we want Linux Australia to know that their support of a sport with its scoreboard, stats and other items built on the back of open source technologies, are huge, and well loved. We would make sure during any streams that we can place a "Powered by Linux Australia" or "Supported by Linux Australia" as part of this. Along with any other ideas you might have, but we'd really love to work with you.
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