cc'ing Jorge Castro from Canonical (who will be at the conference... and maybe the summit?).
Jorge, question below on how to deal with Webex on Ubuntu and limited time/people resources. On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Stefano Maffulli <stef...@openstack.org> wrote: > On 04/11/2012 02:52 PM, Stefano Maffulli wrote: >> We're not yet sure to be able to offer this. Wait for an official >> communication. > > Here is a brief update regarding the live streaming situation. > > Here is the good news: > > Cisco kindly offered http://openstack.webex.com. If you get there you'll > see some meetings setup for the days of the Summit, one meeting per each > day, per room. > > Zareason kindly offered 9 computers to be put in each room, connected to > the audio equipment available there. Each of Zareason's PC will act as a > 'robot-presenter' for Webex. > > The good news stop here. > > There is bad news: at least 6 of the zareason PCs run 64bit systems, and > 64bit Java on Linux is not compatible with Webex (audio issues). Two of > the remaining computers may be too slow to run Webex (I haven't tested > them). > > Possible solutions: > > - offer live streaming only from 3 rooms (at best, only one at worst) > (which ones?) > - spend a few hours on Sunday wiping out the 6 machines and put 32 bit > systems on What about running on a LiveCD? You should be able to install Webex, as long as the file system is mounted. Jorge, is that correct? It's been a while since I've used LiveCD. d > - is there a simpler hack to run 32bit Java on 64bit Ubuntu 11.10 > systems? > - these hours will have to be on top of the hours necessary to setup > the rooms, make sure that audio capture really works with the hotel's > audio system etc > - give to session leaders the honor/burden to run Webex sessions from > their own laptops (given how Webex conferencing works, it may be nearly > impossible) > > Other ideas? I'm inclined to go with the simplest option, #1. Unless > many (more than 10) people reply to this message asking me to provide > full coverage of the event, I'd go with it. For the other options, I'd > ask for somebody else to take the lead: that means, helping wipe and > install the machines, install java, test them and install them. I'll be > glad to provide all support needed. > > Let me know asap, so I can plan the weekend. > stef _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
