[Newspoetry] tech rehearsal Wednesday night?

[Joe Futrelle]

You should have no bandiwdth probs for the purpose of testing.  And to
put things up on my server it's really just a matter of throwing the
files in a directory on my server.  Nothing to it.

On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 06:23:06PM -0500, bhagy at onthejob.net wrote:
> Wednesday at 6 is fine with me.  I think Mollie (correct me if i'm wrong,
> M) was talking about using Thursday as a rehearsal for the show, not the
> tech stuff.
> 
> Too bad you can't make it joe to the wednesday tech rehoirsal, cuz since
> we're gonna be
> putting things on yer server, it would be useful to test that.  but alas,
> we can test things using abbie here, and just have things download really
> slow (and actually, it shouldn't cause too many problems with bandwith if
> we're only having one stream being used as a test...but then again, what
> do i know about the price of tea in quebec?)
> 
> brian
> 
> On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, gillespie william k wrote:
> 
> > > I would suggest Wed from 6-7:30pm as a good time, if others can meet that
> >  early. 
> > 
> > I'd like to meet at 6:00 Wednesday @ OJC. I'm afraid a Thursday meeting
> > won't leave us enough time if we discover that we don't know what we're
> > doing.
> > 
> > I think we should try to capture a couple of minutes of video for the web,
> > maybe comparing quicktime vs. realmedia for ease of production, ease of
> > use, and compatitability with the Shoutnet server & a variety of
> > browsers...
> > 
> > I'd love for you to be of assistance, Moll[ie], as techie and performer
> > (of anything news, poetry, or newspoetry if you want.
> > 
> > WillytheG
> > 
> > I'm interested in trying to do a crash run if i can be of any assistance...
> > > 
> > > -Molly  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, gillespie william k wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Brian, and anybody else interested in the digital mechanics of this, how
> > > > would you like to get together at OJC with Kord's videorecorder Wednesday
> > > > at 6 or 7 and just try to videotape things and encode them and put them on
> > > > the Web so as to run through the whole procedure and make sure all the
> > > > pieces of the puzzle are there, figure out videorecording techniques (it
> > > > was mentioned that closeups are key as distortion is a factor), figure out
> > > > how we're doing audio, etcetera etcetera. Perhaps we can videotape someone
> > > > reading a recent poem and go through all thr troubole of adding 2 minutes
> > > > of video to the site...
> > > > 
> > > > And perhaps Thursday would be a good night to try performance rehrearsals
> > > > for those who want... Songs and staging... Maybe with a trip to Sweet
> > > > Betsy's for dinner...
> > > > 
> > > > > I'm still unsure which we should use.  Which'll be more important for this
> > > > > web site, time or quality?  
> > > > 
> > > > All other factors being equal, I'd steer toward quality over download
> > > > time. I suspect there are a great many factors however.
> > > > 
> > > > And who's actually gonna be designing this
> > > > > page, do ya know? 
> > > > 
> > > > I'm the default, but if you want to work on it that'd be peachy with me.
> > > > 
> > > > William
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Newspoetry maillist  -  Newspoetry at ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu
> > > > http://ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/newspoetry
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > ***************************************************************
> > > Molly Stentz
> > > Computer Learning And Mentoring (CLAM) Coordinator
> > > On the Job Consulting
> > > 109 Goose Alley
> > > Urbana, IL 61801
> > > 217-ART-DWEEB
> > > mollie at onthejob.net
> > > www.onthejob.net
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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