Audio/Video Streams/Meeting

There is a proposed meeting to discuss Wikimania's audio-visual technical needs. Please add yourself below if you are interested, and indicate what time and date would suit you best. (For time zones see here.) Also, please add items to the agenda, and generally edit this page to make it more useful. :-)

• Time: 23:00 UTC (Wednesday); (07:00, Thursday in Taiwan)
• Place: #wikimania2007 (irc.freenode)

Participants

Username	Timezone (UTC+/-?)	Preferred times	Days/dates available/not
Cormaggio	UTC+1	19-24:00 UTC (though flexible)	Available most days, weekends and weekdays
Historybuff	UTC-4 (EDT)	before 4pm EDT, after 9pm EDT (though flexible)	Available most days, weekends and weekdays
TzuChiang Liou	UTC+8	5-9, 22-24 UTC (flexible)	Weekdays preferred
Tim Wu, Foxkaworus	UTC+8	9-17, 22-24 UTC (flexible)	Weekdays preferred
George Chriss, GChriss	UTC-4 (EDT)	22-26 UTC (flexible)	Weekdays preferred
Littlebtc	UTC+8	12-17, 22-24 UTC (flexible)	Weekdays preferred
Next user	Timezone	Preferred times	Availability

Proposed date and time

We can use this section to add suggestions, bearing people's availability in mind.

How about an opening gambit of Wednesday 6th June? At 23:00 UTC? This doesn't seem to fit with Historybuff's avilability - how "flexible" is he? :-) Also, to note that this would be the morning of Thursday 7th June for people in UTC+8 or thereabouts.. Cormaggio 09:34, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

UTC+8 6/7 7:00am is fine for me, thx Cormaggio's suggestion. How about other guys?--Foxkaworus 08:42, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Do we have to meet in the air again to decide the detail a/v stuff? Cos' our devices are almost ready! --Foxkaworus(tim)

I suggest you bring this up on the mailing list - I doubt that everyone interested is following Recent Changes here.. Cormaggio 08:45, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Yup i would support more mailing list communication instead of an IRC meeting as the time differences are a bit inconvenient.--Markie 08:52, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Well, I actually meant to organise an IRC meeting by mailing list. :-) Or at least point the mailing list afresh to a particular page on-wiki... Cormaggio 13:57, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Location

Will this be in the general #wikimania IRC channel, or a specific channel (ie #wikimania-tech)?

Agenda

Add agenda items here.

• TzuChiang
  • Confirm the equipments list, Equipments List
  • Other server in Europe / States?
• Foxkaworus
  • decide stream format, bits rate, and viewer clients

Funding

How much will what's proposed cost? Does the Wikimania organising team have sufficient resources to pay for these or will further funding/sponsorship be required?

Suggested reading

Any links to previous discussions, and current or proposed technical resources can be added here.

• the idea of wikimania lounge, proposed by Andrew : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_WikipediaWeekly/Wikimania_2007
• Equipment list: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Venue/Equipments
• Venue and spaces: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Venue/Spaces

Groups and networks

Add groups who might be interested in helping out here.

Todo Lists

• Relay servers:http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Venue/Equipments#Broadcasting_Center
• get 5 Cams
• get 6 computers
• Decide Network Equipments
  • temporal proposal
    • 3 switches (25 ports each, 8000NT x 3)
    • 25 hubs (5 ports each, 520NT x 25 )
    • 110 FON aps ( 0 NT )
• ask for streaming servers (Australia, US: Manuel Schneider)
• confirm if DV can record to tape and transfer to computer at the same time, or we may not able to do live video streaming smoothly.--b6s 08:21, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Gianni O'connor i confirm dv can record to tape and computer at the same time i have 3 cams