[Lnc-business] record & stream next LNC meeting

[Scott L.]

I live in Silicon Valley.  I attend a ham radio club meeting every couple of
months.

We usually try to stream the video and audio of our meetings onto the
Internet, since some of our members live as much as 200 miles from the
meeting locations.

 

 

Nevertheless - our live streaming is a hit or miss affair.  I estimate that
we are successful at getting the video and audio streamed effectively maybe
2/3 of the time.  But - as you can imagine from where I live,  we probably
have an even higher percentage of IT experts at our meetings than the LP has
at LNC Meetings.  

 

 

In other words: 

 

I understand the motivation to make sure that Republican and Democrat
National Committee members can be thoroughly briefed with the future plans
of the Libertarian Party - in real time.

 

Nevertheless, at this point in the evolution of streaming video technology,
our members should not be surprised if it takes a year or more to get to the
point where we will almost always be successful at broadcasting the audio
and video of LNC meetings to our competitors.

 

   Scott Lieberman

 

 

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From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Wes
Benedict
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 8:21 AM
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
Subject: [Lnc-business] record & stream next LNC meeting

 

Chairman Sarwark has asked me to make sure the next LNC meeting is recorded
and streamed live (sound and video). Staff can make this happen. However, if
there is someone on the LNC who can take responsibility for this, that would
be nice, and might save on expenses at future meetings that aren't in
Alexandria. 

Quite often I've seen situations where people have offered to video tape or
stream something, and then they have been unable to follow through for
various reasons, technical and otherwise. Additionally, I've seen good
quality, and terrible quality results.  For this reason, I'd like to see
duplicate streaming of this next meeting in Alexandria so we can compare
results and see if one arrangement works significantly better than the
other. 

I'll make sure staff has at least one broadcast running. I'd like to see a
member of the LNC streaming a second broadcast. If you're willing to do
this, please provide your own camera, software, choose your own broadcast
service, etc. We'll make sure an internet connection from the hotel is
promised, but if you bring your own 3G/4G service or whatever and it works,
that's bonus points to you. Hotel wifi seems to be promised, but tends not
to work so well so often. If you give us a link to where you are
broadcasting the meeting, we'll embed it or link to it on a blog entry on
LP.org.

The following are things that I'll be looking for to gauge our success:

video quality
sound quality
How well do the video and sound capture all meeting participants?
How often does the broadcast stop working?
Was the setup ready and working at the start of the meeting and did it cover
the entire meeting?
How simple is the setup? We might be doing these at every meeting.
Do you blame the hotel for poor quality results, or can you get a quality
broadcast out in spite of a hotel?

Anybody want to step and take this one?

-- 
Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc." 

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