They do not. We're having to provide all the av equipment.
On Jul 30, 2015 9:56 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 09:50 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > 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.