[Chicago] Video

[Brian Curtin]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:00 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:
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>> > We love video, but I got some concerns that the live streaming issues
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>> > disappointing if people are actually wanting to participate.
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>> Sure, it's probably disappointing, but you're getting a free stream of
>> the meeting to your house, put on by volunteers. Dropping it entirely
>> seems like the last solution to the problem. Would funding help? Would
>> technology contributions help?
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> Rackspace has given us (volunteers who run and help with pyvideo. basically
> Will, Carl and me right now) an account, and I think streaming python user
> groups could fall in the category of things that the account can be used for
> (I could ask). Right now we run part of this on ec2 and I think funds have
> only seriously been a problem when we forgot to turn something off and
> incurred $500.
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> Follow up with Carl, Tim, Roman (anyone else?) for what technology
> contributions would be helpful. I'm ignorant for what they'd really want. I
> know I think it would be a handy idea if someone wrote some operational
> stuff to help. It would be nice to be able to run a script to deploy some
> streaming stuff and have it ready to go.

One thing I can certainly help with is code, especially as it pertains
to Rackspace things. I wasn't around when it happened, but I saw Carl
asking some pyrax questions in #rackspace. My job is helping our
customers, so feel free to contact me with any specifics and I'll help
where I can.