Hi Rich, How much is the sponsorship for this? And, given the lack of external sponsors, why don't we (ASF) just sponsor it given what a great support/service it'd be to our projects and their communities?
Thanks, --tim On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > As some of you know, we do not have a sponsor to handle audio/video > recording at ApacheCon this year. Thus, we'll be doing it ourselves - > just audio, not video. > > So, I need volunteers for the following things: > > If you are willing to video presentations and put them on YouTube, > please step up and do this. Keynotes, in particular, would be appreciated. > > More importantly, I'll be dealing with 8 tracks x 9 hours x 5 days of > audio that will need to be edited. This isn't complicated, it just requires: > > * Computer with Audacity ( http://www.audacityteam.org/ ) installed, and > your own headphones > * Lots of patience > > The process is: > > * Dump huge files off of SD cards at the end of each day > * Split large recording into sessions > * Strip off leading, trailing noise > * Encode to mp3 > * Upload to feathercast.apache.org > * Write brief boilerplate blog post (Name, Session title, Abstract) > > If you are willing to do this for even an hour, please let me know. I > will be doing this each evening, for the duration of the event, and > probably quite a bit during the days. If you just drop by the hackathon > area, and help me out for even a brief time, I'll be very grateful. > > Thanks. > > --Rich > > (Looking towards next event, if you or your company want to sponsor > audio/video for the upcoming ApacheCon EU, your company will get a lot > of thanks and retweets out of this.) > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
