Little Brother is Watching Your Live Stream

Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love Google, YouTube, and "the Cloud." Presentation delivered at AITP-NCFL (aitp-ncfl.org).

Presentation covering the history & current status of how we're doing live streaming for the Gator Linux Users Group (gatorlug.org).

Transcript

1. Little Brother is Watching Your Live Stream How I learned to stop worrying and love Google, YouTube, and “the Cloud”
2. Martin B. Smith Automation Engineering, Chef Community, Infrastructure as Code Performance, Tuning, Scaling, Load Testing CI/CD Workflows, Databases, Open Source @martinb3 Rackspace since 2013 B.S. Comp. Sci. since 2005
3. Martin B. Smith Rackspace since 2013 UFIT since 2008 UF BEBR since 2005 B.S. Comp. Sci. since 2005
4. History - Current Efforts - Why
5. History - Current Efforts - Why
6. Linux Users Group - 1997 - LINUX-L, archives start in 1999 - 2000 - Florida Linux Users, LinuxUsers.org - 2006 - GatorLUG.org, renamed & reimagined
7. The Internet of 2006
8. The Internet of 2006
9. June 2006
10. History - Current Efforts - Why
11. August 2015 "Let's Encrypt" J.C. Jones, Security Engineer at Mozilla 5 months ago, 82 views
12. July 2015 “I don't suppose there's still any live streaming, or better yet, recordings?” “My wife and I watched on our Samsung TV's YouTube app. We searched in the YouTube app and it couldn't have been easier. The video and sound quality was also very good.” “I would definitely like to see the meetings streamed as well, now that I'm living in the San Francisco Bay area.” “How much do you need for equipment?”
13. July 2015 (response) - a laptop (I don't mind bringing one) - Logitech C900-series camera with extension cable - $100 - webcam floor mount with adapter - $50 - two floor mics with mic stands, cables - $250 - usb portable mixer with XLR - $150 Rough estimate $550.
14. Crowdfunding
15. Crowdfunding
16. Crowdfunding
17. Indiegogo Experience - Personal info - Plead, but perk
18. July 2015 (more email responses) “Anyone else having problems making a contribution thru Paypal?” “Your payment can't be completed. Please return to the participating website and try again.” “Please contact support.”
19. August 2015 (We did it!) “Anyone else having problems making a contribution thru Paypal?” “Your payment can't be completed. Please return to the participating website and try again.” “Please contact support.”
20. September 2015
21. September 2015
22. September 2015
23. The First Event
24. The First Event
25. History - Current Efforts - Why
26. 4300% SEO Okay, not really. But users do care!
27. Streaming statistics - 1 month ago - 1,299 views - 5 days ago - 19 views Also some lightning talks: - 1 month ago - 19 views - 5 days ago - 3 views Also one audio-only: - 1 month ago - 9 views 9 subscribers 1,382 views Joined May 2, 2015
28. Future plans - Networking - Return/inbound audio - Easier setup/transport - Better slide sharing
29. Fin @martinb3