[Linux-aus] WordPress Melbourne Recording Equipment Grand

[Aaron Rutley]

Hi Everyone,   

Thanks for your prompt reply to our request.  

We agree - making the recordings available would be very valuable to the wider Open Source / WordPress community.

Just to clarify,  
- Our main (large) monthly meet-up is at Inspire9 (Richmond) however we also have smaller meet-ups at YBF  
- We also have other meetups in Bendigo, Endeavour Hills & we'd see the equipment being used at other events like PressJam & Beach Press.
- We'd be happy to manage the loan of the equipment from LA  

We wouldn't object to other groups using the equipment however we can forsee this being quite complicated to manage.
With our WordPress community alone, we have multiple meetups each month over multiple venues.  
Our main concern would be if there are multiple meetups on the same or consecutive nights, getting the camera between multiple groups could be an issue.  
Not only that, it would obviously involve extra costs due to either postage (which could take days) or personal transport (which can also be costly and time consuming).

Thanks again for considering our application !  

Regards,
Aaron Rutley
  
ElevenMedia.com.au
Phone: (03) 9707 2611

Studio:  2/16 Blackburne Sq, Berwick.
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On Monday, 14 October 2013 at 2:25 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:

> I think that making meeting recordings available is a very valuable thing for preserving and distributing useful knowledge.
>  
> I think it might not work if there had to be a lot of equipment exchanges between groups. Recording meetings has value outside of the user group, presuming that recordings are made publicly available.
>  
> It looks like the venue is the York Butter Factory. Do they have any ability to support recordings? What other Linux Australia supported groups meet at YBF? If there are several, then perhaps the equipment could be sponsored by LA but held at YBF for interested user groups. Perhaps YBF would also be interested in providing recording as a service to groups which meet there.  
>  
> -T
>  
>  
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silvia at silvia-pfeiffer.de (mailto:silvia at silvia-pfeiffer.de)> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Chris Neugebauer <chrisjrn at gmail.com (mailto:chrisjrn at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > > Hi Aaron,
> > >
> > > On 11 October 2013 11:08, Aaron Rutley <aaron at elevenmedia.com.au (mailto:aaron at elevenmedia.com.au)> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> The equipment will be ‘owned’ by the community and managed by the organisers
> > >> of the Melbourne WordPress meetup & made available to the group for other
> > >> WordPress events.
> > >>
> > >
> > > My $0.02:
> > >
> > > I would not be supportive of the grant as currently framed, primarily
> > > because there is a greater opportunity for LA to support the recording
> > > of other Melbourne-based user groups' talks.
> > >
> > > A more appropriate request, in my opinion, would be for LA to have
> > > recording/media gear available for use by relevant Melbourne-based
> > > groups, and to make this available to the WordPress group as they need
> > > it.
> > >
> > > Such an approach would make the recording equipment available to other
> > > affiliated Melbourne user groups, such as LUV, if they wanted it.
> > >
> > > I would support the WordPress group managing the loan of this
> > > equipment on behalf of LA; alternatively it could be managed by a
> > > Melbourne-based member of the (proposed?) LA AV committee.
> >  
> > That latter version is the way I read the proposal. I'd be supportive
> > of such an undertaking as long as the groups in Melbourne do actually
> > talk to each other and help each other use the equipment. Maybe
> > Melbourne WordPress group can offer a training session for other
> > groups as part of this (e.g. for LUV) and thus help them get started.
> >  
> > Just my 2c worth.
> >  
> > Cheers,
> > Silvia.
> >  
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