Heading down with Todd Zullinger today to Raleigh, NC to hit up FUDCon.
I'm pretty excited about this trip; I've been a user of Red Hat products for about 9 years now, and while I've done some packaging for several years I've only recently become a Fedora contributor and have been trying very hard to improve my packaging and am finally getting into seeing what other areas I can help with.
While both Todd and I are signed up for the GPG keysigning session (I wish there were more people going to that), I think I'll probably head over to the yum hackfest to see what I can learn about RPM and yum to see what could be done to improve "suggested packages" support.
I also have a lot of interest in the sysadmining, so I might checkout the Infrastructure hackfest, and I'd also love to see a better init system, so I might head there.
Overall, there's a ton of stuff to try to take in at this short gathering, and I hope I can make the most of it.
I'll also have my new Canon HG10 camcorder and a recently-purchased Canon DM-50 shotgun microphone to bring to the event, so I'll be taking videos of the sessions. Feel free to try to grab me if you have any other ideas for things I could take videos of.
My biggest concern with the videos is going to be what quality to store them in; 5.5 hrs at 15Mbps doesn't sound like much for the whole weekend, but I don't know if we want lower quality or not (if the final result is just YouTube, it probably doesn't matter). I would appreciate any ideas people have about this.
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Yeah, think YouTube quality. Wouldn't it be great if there were something like YouTube, except for free formats? Hm. :)
Doug, I think you are on the right track with the microphone purchase and I agree with Greg. In my experience, it is going to be hard (if not impossible) to effectively capture the visual happenings of a meeting with one camera; however, given the right equipment, capturing impactful audio is completely possible and probably most helpful. You are probably not going to be in a position to capture minute visual details like screens, etc. anyway, so I would not worry too much about having stellar resolution; you will be forced to downgrade it anyway to distribute to the web. Making sure that you have the capacity to capture as much information as possible without worrying about running out is probably the best policy; you can always delete extra footage later but will never get the chance to record something you missed. Hearing what the speaker is saying should be most important.
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