Events FAD engineering-project (Goal 3) update

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:44:04AM -0500, Mel Chua wrote:
[...snip...] 
> EXCEPT. Those of you who looked at the github list may catch the word 
> 'rpmfusion' in the README and twitch a little. Freeseer currently 
> requires ffmpeg, mencoder, and mplayer, and because of the way it uses 
> codecs, it isn't kosher for Fedora as it stands. *If* we could fix that, 
> we'd have a truly free and unencumbered event-recording solution on our 
> hands.
> 
> And it turns out that we probably can.
> 
> Logs of Andrew, Clint, zxiiro, Dennis, and Jon starting to figure out 
> the gameplan are at 
> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2010-01-15/fudcon-planning.2010-01-15-02.36.log.html, 
> which is also listed in 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events_FAD_2010#Meetings. The short 
> version is "use gstreamer" - maybe Andrew, Clint, or someone else can 
> give a more accurate longer summary, after zxiiro does a little testing 
> of the stuff Clint suggested.

Read the log, looks like super progress thus far!  Although some
people consider Gstreamer difficult for use in applications like
non-linear editing, it's generally cut out well for
streaming/recording.  Great teamwork last night on this, all.

> In other news, we now have $874.30 remaining for travel funds, so if you 
> need plane tickets or hotel rooms to participate, holler to the list to 
> let us know what you're going to do and how much it would cost and we'll 
> see what we can do. (David Nalley is currently in the queue, and I 
> believe that's all.)

So... what was the deal with the really high travel costs?  I think
Andrew quoted something like $2100, but when I did a plane fare search
on kayak.com I was able to easily find ~$455 non-stop, round trip
tickets YOW->RDU.

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