From george at ceetonetechnology.com Wed Sep 4 09:41:06 2024 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 09:41:06 -0400 Subject: [talk] Sept 4 NYC*BUG: GEFS: The Long road to Production Use, Ori Bernstein Message-ID: <74908244-84d9-401f-a111-62ba1a2743d7@ceetonetechnology.com> RSVPs closing at 12 noon EDT today GEFS: The Long road to Production Use, Ori Bernstein 2024-09-04 @ 18:45 EDT (22:45 UTC) - NYU Tandon Engineering Building (new), 370 Jay St, 7th Floor kitchen area, Brooklyn RSVP: Those either considering or wishing to attend, a guest list is required by the venue. Please RVSP to rsvp at lists dot nycbug dot org no later than noon localtime, day-of; an acknowledgement will be sent and the email address will be used solely for the purpose of attendance to this meeting's venue. ***The hard deadline for RSVPs is 12 noon EDT on the day of the meeting.*** Remote participation: Plans are to stream via NYC*BUG website. Q&A will be via IRC on libera.chat channel #nycbug - please preface your questions with '[Q]'. GEFS: The Long road to Production Use Since GEFS was announced and discussed, a lot of debugging and stabilization has happened. I'm using it on my laptop. Others are testing it out. But there's still a lot of work to do. Join for an update on it. From george at ceetonetechnology.com Wed Sep 4 18:53:57 2024 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 18:53:57 -0400 Subject: [talk] streaming meeting Message-ID: We're live and streaming https://www.nycbug.org/index?action=streaming From mcevoy.pat at gmail.com Wed Sep 4 21:06:41 2024 From: mcevoy.pat at gmail.com (Pat McEvoy) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 21:06:41 -0400 Subject: [talk] Funding request for *BSD Community AV conference streaming In-Reply-To: <758EE052-D2EB-4C14-92E6-2D865EC8ED34@gmail.com> References: <758EE052-D2EB-4C14-92E6-2D865EC8ED34@gmail.com> Message-ID: <880B82B7-4409-45E4-949E-6C2A2BF334D8@gmail.com> > On Aug 29, 2024, at 00:00, Pat McEvoy wrote: > > ?On behalf of the BSDCan, EuroBSDcon, and NYC*BUG A/V Team, we are very much looking forward to this year's EuroBSDcon in Dublin. This preparation time highlights the importance of strategic equipment planning we have been researching and acquiring to streamline our workflow. What equipment, you may ask? We have a carefully-chosen list of components that are portable and are oten be difficult to rent, which follow us to BSD events across the globe. Our goal is to acquire the necessary items to cover a four-track BSDCon with minimal reliance on rental equipment, thereby saving thousands on fees year over year. As an example, much of the hardware we rely on ranges in price from $50 to $2500 to purchase, nearly that much to rent per event. > > We have steadily increased our repository and were fortunate enough to roll out a first-gen version deployment at BSDCan 2024 with excellent results! The streams were consistent, our capture coverage was good, and the majority of the videos were up within two weeks. As a volunteer effort, it is critical that we make the most of our precious time by utilizing the correct hardware. This work enables participation and viewership from *BSD community around the world. > > To that end, we are reaching out to the community to request your support in achieving our goal. The FreeBSD Foundation is facilitating tax-deductible donations as a 501(c)(3) public-benefit organization and we are very appreciative of their assistance. If you would like to contribute to our efforts, donations can be made to the FreeBSD Foundation with the memo "Community AV Team". > > We, The AV Team, thank you! > Patrick McEvoy > @EuroBSDCon fundraising news: We have a commitment of ?500 from the repeat-supporter at the ?500 level: @OpenBSDAms This gets us closer to our ?2000 goal for needed hardware: a second ATEM streaming deck plus wireless microphone and accessories needed for EuroBSDCon Dublin. If you can help the make our video efforts it will go toward making EuroBSDCon and future *BSD community videos easier to produce and of higher quality. The first round of hardware donations were used in the main room of BSDCan (1160) and the FreeBSD Dev Summit to good results. Boosts welcome. From george at ceetonetechnology.com Thu Sep 5 07:55:15 2024 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 07:55:15 -0400 Subject: [talk] Funding request for *BSD Community AV conference streaming In-Reply-To: <880B82B7-4409-45E4-949E-6C2A2BF334D8@gmail.com> References: <758EE052-D2EB-4C14-92E6-2D865EC8ED34@gmail.com> <880B82B7-4409-45E4-949E-6C2A2BF334D8@gmail.com> Message-ID: On 9/4/24 21:06, Pat McEvoy wrote: > >> On Aug 29, 2024, at 00:00, Pat McEvoy wrote: >> >> ?On behalf of the BSDCan, EuroBSDcon, and NYC*BUG A/V Team, we are very much looking forward to this year's EuroBSDcon in Dublin. This preparation time highlights the importance of strategic equipment planning we have been researching and acquiring to streamline our workflow. What equipment, you may ask? We have a carefully-chosen list of components that are portable and are oten be difficult to rent, which follow us to BSD events across the globe. Our goal is to acquire the necessary items to cover a four-track BSDCon with minimal reliance on rental equipment, thereby saving thousands on fees year over year. As an example, much of the hardware we rely on ranges in price from $50 to $2500 to purchase, nearly that much to rent per event. >> >> We have steadily increased our repository and were fortunate enough to roll out a first-gen version deployment at BSDCan 2024 with excellent results! The streams were consistent, our capture coverage was good, and the majority of the videos were up within two weeks. As a volunteer effort, it is critical that we make the most of our precious time by utilizing the correct hardware. This work enables participation and viewership from *BSD community around the world. >> >> To that end, we are reaching out to the community to request your support in achieving our goal. The FreeBSD Foundation is facilitating tax-deductible donations as a 501(c)(3) public-benefit organization and we are very appreciative of their assistance. If you would like to contribute to our efforts, donations can be made to the FreeBSD Foundation with the memo "Community AV Team". >> >> We, The AV Team, thank you! >> Patrick McEvoy >> > > @EuroBSDCon fundraising news: We have a commitment of ?500 from the repeat-supporter at the ?500 level: @OpenBSDAms > This gets us closer to our ?2000 goal for needed hardware: a second ATEM streaming deck plus wireless microphone and accessories needed for EuroBSDCon Dublin. If you can help the make our video efforts it will go toward making EuroBSDCon and future *BSD community videos easier to produce and of higher quality. The first round of hardware donations were used in the main room of BSDCan (1160) and the FreeBSD Dev Summit to good results. Boosts welcome.\ Patrick has been providing bad-ass video for a long time.. he's been consistent and the videos get a lot of views. It would be great if some corp or organization could make up the other ~$1500. A lot of people far and wide have reaped the benefits of his work (and expenditures out-of-pocket)... high-time for others to step up so he can continue. g From george at ceetonetechnology.com Tue Sep 10 16:02:11 2024 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:02:11 -0400 Subject: [talk] spare SATA disks Message-ID: Asking since I'm sure someone around has some conveniently sitting around... Does anyone have two >=3Tb SATA disks (non-SAS) around? We are in a bind to get these up for grabbing and processing the EuroBSD videos and we're on a tight schedule. Let me know off list... George From george at ceetonetechnology.com Tue Sep 10 17:26:54 2024 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:26:54 -0400 Subject: [talk] spare SATA disks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6aae8633-896b-46ce-99b0-aa06e9565bf3@ceetonetechnology.com> On 9/10/24 16:02, George Rosamond wrote: > Asking since I'm sure someone around has some conveniently sitting > around... > > Does anyone have two >=3Tb SATA disks (non-SAS) around? > > We are in a bind to get these up for grabbing and processing the EuroBSD > videos and we're on a tight schedule. > > Let me know off list... We're set for now. Thanks for the speedy reply. g From nickdigirolamo04 at yahoo.com Sun Sep 22 00:43:05 2024 From: nickdigirolamo04 at yahoo.com (Nicholas DiGirolamo) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:43:05 -0400 Subject: [talk] Next month's meeting References: <05e9503e-03b4-4123-b796-11cf1efd554f.ref@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <05e9503e-03b4-4123-b796-11cf1efd554f@yahoo.com> Sorry, but I wasn't able to attend the September meeting. The website doesn't have any information about the next meeting and neither did I see anything in the archives. What is the current status of the next meeting for this user group? From george at ceetonetechnology.com Sun Sep 29 15:20:11 2024 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:20:11 -0400 Subject: [talk] NYC*BUG Oct 2: EuroBSDCon Recap/BSD Fund Message-ID: EuroBSDCon Recap/*BSD Fund info session, Patrick McEvoy 2024-10-02 @ 18:45 EDT (22:45 UTC) - NYU Tandon Engineering Building (new), 370 Jay St, 7th Floor kitchen area, Brooklyn (directly across Jay St from National Grid office). Closest subway exits in order are Jay St - MetroTech Station (A, C, R, & F Trains) Borough Hall (4 & 5 Trains). RSVP: Those ethier considering or wishing to attend, a guest list is required by the venue. Please RVSP to rsvp at lists dot nycbug dot org no later than noon localtime, day-of; an acknowledgement will be sent and the email address will be used solely for the purpose of attendance to this meeting's venue. Remote participation: Plans are to stream via NYC*BUG website. Q&A will be via IRC on libera.chat channel #nycbug - please preface your questions with '[Q]'. EuroBSDCon Recap/*BSD Fund info session During this talk, I will cover: - hardware we saw at EuroBSDCon, - the hallway track - general community involvement post-pandemic growth. - The NYC*BUG cabinet at NYI video repository Because the community has been donating funds for hardware, I also thought this would be a good time to cover how these funds are being spent. We are shooting for the best bang for our Buck/Euro while growing a reliable suite of hardware to use for community benefit and reduced training time for volunteers. Patrick McEvoy (BSDTV) has been streaming NYC*BSDCons since 2010 and BSDCan since they lost their entire videoteam in a last minute staffing emergency. He has been active with NYC*BUG for a number of years and streams other tech / *BUG events when the schedule allows and releases these videos on conference YouTube and Peertube under a number of different umbrellas.