On 11/14/09, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <ads@pgug.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:52:22AM +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>>
>> I think we should spend some money and buy some inexpensive cameras
>> and tripods along with a bunch of memory cards for next year, and
>> record everything. I know other PUGs/conferences series have done that
>> with good results.
>
> On FOSDEM this attempt failed two years in a row. Last year the reason
> was: the camera had to be on the top level line with seats. Else it
> would only record parts of the room, eeither only the speaker and not
> the projector wall or vise versa. But this camera position resulted in a
> very bad light situation and in addition the sun protection darkened the
> room even more.
>
> You not only need a camera, you also need someone operating this camera
> all the time
Yeah, I figured that we'd get the room hosts to do that. Buying people
with the cameras may be hard (and possibly illegal in some parts of
Europe).
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Dave Page
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