On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 6:27 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
- you really don't need much for this sort of event: a comfortable,
open venue, wireless, some chairs/couches/mats, coffee/tea, snacks, and a big piece of paper on the wall for writing session ideas down on. (see: how to organize a barcamp: http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/OrganizeALocalBarCamp). Everything else is just a bonus. Obviously, if there was going to be streaming, also a monitor/projector/etc.
This is a very good point! In other words, even Wikimania at Buenos Aires may be prepared in such manner. If Wikimedians from different places are willing to prepare small Wikimanias, it is the right time to start with thinking about that from both sides.
** this has had technical difficulties in the past but I have faith we'll get it together.
A couple of technical advices related to "streaming": * Don't do stream [from both sides], do VoIP (SIP, H323 or Skype). Streaming will have problems in all cases: Streaming software is trying to transmit all data, which makes delays. * ~200kbps is enough for not so bad quality video conference. So, there should be clean ~200kbps per channel. Maybe it is reasonable to install a central VoIP router at Florida because of the best Internet infrastructure and combinations of VoIP (for conferencing) and streaming (just for emitting signal from different places). * IP routing hardware has to be able to transmit a lot of small packages. Note that ordinary wireless connections are not able to do that.