Re: Things to bring along for FOSDEM

[Robert Slover]

I used to do A/V for (very) large seminars here in the states.  Invariably the 
larger ballrooms and conference halls had a speaker system, but smaller 
conference rooms often didn't have separate systems (many times, smaller 
conference rooms were just a larger room with partitions pulled across to 
divide up the space).  Most of the time, it was not worth the effort to deal 
with what you would find, it was easier to bring everything you could possibly 
need.

If you do go that route, you need to have a decent-sized arsenal of connectors 
and adaptors.  Mic circuits are generally going to be balanced XLR, often 
powered, which isn't going to be something you can simply plug your laptop 
into.  A small mixing console, typically something with several high impedance 
inputs and XLR and line-level RCA outputs is very useful.  It's sort of the 
Swiss-army-knife tool when doing this sort of thing.  You can call ahead to the 
hotel to try to get some idea of their facilities, but in my experience I 
rarely found someone who understood enough to answer my questions accurately.

--Robert

On Feb 1, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Ivan Vučica wrote:

> I have not been to FOSDEM; but how come lecture halls don't have some sort of 
> organizer-provided speaker system? Almost any public speech I have been to in 
> Croatia had one (for use with microphone) -- isn't it easier to plug laptop 
> into that?
> 
> (All the talk about FOSDEM on this list warmed me up to it, hopefully one of 
> these years I'll be able to go :-))
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ivan Vučica
> via phone
> 
> On 2. vel. 2011., at 00:22, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf 
> <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi everybody,
>> 
>> it would be nice if somebody could bring one of the following things to 
>> FOSDEM:
>> 
>> - a pair of computer speakers
>> - a second projector (we'll get one from the FOSDEM organizers) with adapters
>> - some printed out material (flyers, brochures and so on)
>> - Live-CDs anyone? (we could bring blank CD-Roms or DVDs and burn them ad 
>> hoc)
>> 
>> What do we need that for? Gregory Casamento is presumably giving his speech 
>> via Skype. We did something similar before when David Chisnall gave his 
>> speach via iChat:
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSQaROKGIsY
>> 
>> From that experience we know that the build in speakers of a computer are to 
>> silent and that the screen of a laptop is to small.
>> 
>> we would need the flyers and brochures for people to take away so they have 
>> something printed about GNUstep in their hands
>> 
>> 
>> Btw. Tim Käck will bring a tripod plus video camera so we can record the 
>> talks. I will bring a small router and a multiple plug. Bring your own 
>> ethernet cables!
>> 
>> 
>> cheers,
>> 
>>   Lars
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