still alive

[anthonybaxter]

Just finished a fairly insane week and a bit, first at Rainbow Serpent and then at linux.conf.au, where I both keynoted on Friday morning, and ran an insane lightning talk session on Friday afternoon. (Quick note for next time - 3 minutes is a tad too short for a lightning talk). Keynote was well received, will post links to video &c when they're up.

More details tomorrow, but should mention up front wooo-hooooo! to Miss S. for both having lifehacker AU get it's biggest couple of days ever, and for getting slashdotted 4 times in a single week for pieces she wrote (including the one on my talk).

Checking the news briefly for the first time in a week, I see that the new government _still_ hasn't fired Mick Keelty yet. Please, guys, just put him out to pasture.

Comments

Video

[laptop006.livejournal.com]

Will be:
http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2008/Fri/mel8-820.ogg

It's been edited and compressed but not yet uploaded, Ryan & I only left Trinity this morning and I think he's encoding some of the failed talks now, so hopefully tomorrow.

Re: Video

[laptop006.livejournal.com]

OK that was the link for the lightning talks (which are now up).

Your keynote is also up and is:
http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2008/Fri/mel8-183.ogg

Re: Video

[anthonybaxter.livejournal.com]

was there a plan to post them to google video or youtube or something as well?

Re: Video

[laptop006.livejournal.com]

Yep, a HDD with a 1/4 terabyte of raw video was sent back to MV with one of the Google people.

Re: Video

[richardjones.livejournal.com]

Please record a new video with you talking and the slides visible.

For the next conference: please record the slide content and stop zooming the camera around.

Re: Video

[laptop006.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to try and train volunteers in camera operation.

Getting a laptop feed is surprisingly hard to do, and we've yet to find a good way that doesn't cost several thosand per room.

Re: Video

[richardjones.livejournal.com]

Please consider my comment an attempt at constructive criticism in order to help volunteers next time. Kudos for getting the video up, BTW :)

The other comment was to Anthony.

Re: Video

[anthonybaxter.livejournal.com]

I've gotten keynote to spit out a manually advancing quicktime movie. I can't get stupid imovie to load that file to cue up the audio with it. Anyone got ideas?

Re: Video

[anthonybaxter.livejournal.com]

There must be a simple way to sync up audio and slides separately. Gah.

Re: Video

[laptop006.livejournal.com]

Supposedly slideshare can do it, but Paul Fenwick had issues with it as they limit slides to a minimum of 5 seconds.

good for you!

[darclady.livejournal.com]

Good for you on the speechy-ness. That's two people I know involved with the good 'ol linux conferance now! Are you still in Melbourne? Would love to catch up...

Re: good for you!

[anthonybaxter.livejournal.com]

sorry, back up in sydney again :-(