Sprints for preparing and posting audio and video?

[Igal Koshevoy]

We captured a lot of audio and video during the conference, and I'd like
to get it posted online. I'd like to see a regular process for working
our way through the backlog. I think sprints at a quieter venue or such
would be a good way to encourage us to work through these.

Videos:
- There's one disk with the videos and Reid has it?
- How ready are the videos on the disk? Do they just need to be posted?
Or do we need to crop them, insert titles and re-encode them?
- Can we buy another disk so we can clone this and have a backup? I can
buy it and store this, although expensing it to the Foundation would be
preferable. I have a portable enclosure that can speak FireWire 400, USB
2 and SATA that I can bring to sprints.

Audio:
- There are a few DVDs, each with a complete set of the audio, and Reid,
Audrey and Peter have them?
- Can we post a torrent with the DVD content so there are more copies of it?
- How ready are the audio files on the discs? Can we just post them or
do we need to crop, insert intros and encode them?
- How do we want to publish these talks? Like on what site?

Meetings:
Where and when would we like to do these sprints? One possibility is an
hour or so before the weekly WhereCampPDX meetings (Thursday 7pm,
Produce Row). We could do a couple on weekends too, like at Market
Street Pub, Urban Grind, Risterro Roasters, etc.

-igal

[Reid Beels]

On Aug 17, 2009, at 9:15 PM, Igal Koshevoy wrote:

> Videos:
> - There's one disk with the videos and Reid has it?

Yep.

> - How ready are the videos on the disk? Do they just need to be
> posted?

The videos that are on the hard drive are the ones that were shot in
the main keynote room by Joe. All of these videos are already online
at http://osbridge.blip.tv/

> Audio:
> - There are a few DVDs, each with a complete set of the audio, and
> Reid,
> Audrey and Peter have them?
> - Can we post a torrent with the DVD content so there are more
> copies of it?
> - How ready are the audio files on the discs? Can we just post them or
> do we need to crop, insert intros and encode them?

The audio files aren't perfect, but based on what I've heard from
other conferences, we could get away with posting them as is. However,
I'd like to take some time to normalize the audio and possibly add
introductions.

> - How do we want to publish these talks? Like on what site?

I'd been working on getting our wordpress install set up to handle
podcasts. If we don't want to host the audio ourselves, we should look
into alternatives.

> Meetings:
> Where and when would we like to do these sprints? One possibility is
> an
> hour or so before the weekly WhereCampPDX meetings (Thursday 7pm,
> Produce Row). We could do a couple on weekends too, like at Market
> Street Pub, Urban Grind, Risterro Roasters, etc.

I'm not entirely sure how any of these offers a quieter venue to work
on this. I'd love to encourage participation, but audio editing is a
pretty solitary task (especially in public).

> -igal