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Hello LA Video Team,<br>
<br>
So I think there's a couple of topics we need to discuss, and I'd
like to get the ball rolling.<br>
<br>
Volunteer crew:<br>
- Camera operators (each stream of a conf needs at least one of
these)<br>
- Directors/dvswitch operators (each stream of a conf needs at
least one of these)<br>
- Streaming Engineers (typically this has been just Tim, but we
need more people on this piece to spread the knowledge)<br>
- Audio Engineers - its more important than the moving pictures!<br>
<br>
And for our larger events, LCA, PyCon, and others, this expands
more:<br>
- Video review and publishing team<br>
- Crew manager/scheduler - ensuring we have cam ops, dvswitch ops
in each stream<br>
- Crew catering (crew turn up early, leave late, and need to be
fed and watered)<br>
- Equipment manager - organise delivery, storage, distribution,
repair, recovery, and on-shipping of kit<br>
- Network engineer<br>
- Head of AV kicking all the rest along!<br>
<br>
So looking at LCA, with say 4 presentation streams (ignore keynote
for the moment):<br>
<br>
4 cam ops + 4 dvswitch + 1 stream engineer + 1 audio engineer + 4
reviewers + 1 manager + 1 catering + 1 equipment + 1 net + head = 18
Av crew.<br>
<br>
For the keynote, I think 2-3 cam ops, 1 dvswitch on top makes this
lift to 22 trained heads who know what they are doing, and who
aren't watching the event but "working". Note that with timing of
keynotes to streams means while it may be technically possible to
rush crew from one venue to anove (keynote -> presentation)
there's not enough time to also test and be ready in the interval
between end-of-keynote and start-of-presentations.<br>
<br>
I think we need to start getting a feel for who these people are:
are they part of the Linux/Open Source community, or are they
volunteers from places like film schools, etc, or somewhere else? I
think the value placed on the video streams should be that we try to
move towards either partial or full sponsorship for these crew to
attend the events; covering meals and accommodation (for those who
have travelled in) at the least, but this is a delicate topic and
one we'll have to work through (meals & accommodation is at
least a fix cost per head at each even pretty much).<br>
<br>
So, there's a first post: look, not a technical thing on there.
We'll come to that in different threads. Lets talk people. Comment
away.<br>
<br>
James<br>
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