[LAU] LAC 2008: bandwidth to burn and volunteers needed

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:56:56 -0600
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <eric at zhevny.com> wrote:

> LAC 2008: bandwidth to burn and volunteers needed
> 
> The 6th annual Linux Audio Conference is taking place in Cologne,
> Germany, Feb 28th to March 2nd, 2008. As with each previous year this
> year's conference will be streamed live over the internet in ogg
> theora via icecast. The stream server is up at:
> http://lac2008.khm.de:8000/ 
> 
> There is nothing to see at the moment, but keep checking over the
> coming days as we hope to have a test stream up soon.
> 
> This year we are in the unique situation of having a Gigabit link
> donated by CITIZENMEDIA: http://www.ist-citizenmedia.org/ They have
> asked us to use up as much of their bandwidth as we can so they can
> see how well the link performs.
> 
> This year the core team, Joern Nettingsmeier and myself, are
> recruiting volunteers to spread the workload. To that end we have set
> up a mailing list and irc channel to coordinate our efforts. We will
> also have a wiki shortly. If you will be coming to Cologne for the
> conference please consider signing up to help. If you are not coming,
> please enjoy the fruits of our labors by watching the streams and
> participating via irc.
> 
> stream team mailing list:
> http://zhevny.com/mailman/listinfo/lac-streams general conference
> chat:  #lac2008 on irc.freenode.net stream team tech talk:
> #lac2008-tech on irc.freenode.net
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric Rz.


Will this be a one-time live stream or a number of streams available
for some time?
Anyway, it's really cool, I'll help burning bandwith ;)

Philipp