On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Stephen Gallagher <
sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 19:55 +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> > I had an idea to make up a looping video to have up on the
> > projectors
> > instead of having them blank while people are waiting for talks.
> >
> > Here is what I came up with:
> >
> >
https://ryanlerch.fedorapeople.org/rochester-just-wavy.webm
> >
> > The ticket tracking this is here if you have any ideas.
> >
> >
https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/396
> >
> > I was thinking about working on making it longer, and perhaps
> > running
> > through the sponsors, and maybe other important information,
> > slide
> > -show
> > style but in a video, but will hack at adding that stuff after
> > the
> > other
> > print stuff for flock is done.
> >
>
> Looks excellent to me, but what will we be using to project this?
> Will
> the rooms have existing desktops or something or will we be
> expecting
> all the presenters to run this while waiting?
This is a fair question.
Right now, the plan for streaming is a setup like we had in
Charleston
with laptops and webcams (though not actually confirmed yet). So
there will be machines there, however they likely won't be near the
projectors since they have to be connected to a webcam pointing at
the
screen.
Ignoring that issue, I'm a bit skeptical of the practicality of using
those machines to display this in the short break between sessions.
It would mean someone would have to plug the projector back into the
machine, then unplug it to connect to the presenter's machine, then
replug, repeat. I can see this quickly leading to never plugging
those in.
Realistically, whatever machine that is being used to present will
need to run this if we want it. Which likely means the presenter's
themselves will need to run this, which means it will only be
displayed for a few minutes before each talk.
Does someone have a better idea or plan? I really like the idea and
video itself, but I'm afraid practicality and technical issues are
going to make it somewhat untenable.
Well, can we find out if the podiums at the venue have a machine
already there (even if it's Windows or OSX?). We could then just leave
that running on said machine and switch the projecter input back to the
podium system between talks.