[theora] ogg theora book sprint

[adam hyde]

anyone can come to this for free....dont worry :)



adam


On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 23:51 +0200, David Kuehling wrote:
> >>>>> "adam" == adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> writes:
> 
> > hey, Adam here from FLOSS Manuals (http://www.flossmanuals.net). We
> > write free manuals about free software and in August (10-15) we will
> > hold Book Sprint (http://www.flossmanuals.net/booksprints) about Ogg
> > Theora. We will write a really good manual (book) about Ogg Theora in
> > 5 days. The event will be in Berlin.
> 
> > We want to cover a lot of stuff, but we hope to get our teeth into at
> > least some of the following :
> 
> > about -what is theora?  -why do you want it?  -codec basics streaming
> > -tss (theora streaming studio) -commandline ffmpeg2theora, dvgrab,
> > oggfwd -icecast -gstreamer -vlc -jroar transcoding -firefogg
> > -ffmpeg2theora -thoggen -ogg convert editing -oggchopz -pivitv
> > -oggtools video conferencing -empathy -ekiga -linphone distribution
> > -wikipedia -archive.org -html5 subtitling -cli embedding of subtitles
> > in ogg -web based subtitle replay with jquery.srt playback -vlc -ff
> 
> About the content: 'oggchopz' is probably 'oggzchop', which is from the
> 'oggztools' that you might also want to cover.
> 
> Another topic of interest might be 'Theora hardware' (the Elphel 333
> camera was a good example of theora in hardware, but looks like it's
> discontinued :( )
>         
> > We are keen to get anyone to the sprint that wants to come. There is
> > some limited travel funds...if anyone would like to attend please let
> > me know! :)
> 
> Well, given that I live within 5km of the conference place, I'm somewhat
> tempted to attend :)   BTW for those interested, more information about
> the place and context is available here:
> 
> http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?lp_lang_pref=en&page_id=116
> 
> If I read this correctly, the book sprint takes place as one of the
> workshops, with a registration fee of 50 EUR.  Also note that
> /everybody/ can participate remotely (for free :) as external editors,
> using a web-interface (see
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/BookSprints/Roles).
> 
> BTW Adam, if you want to get some of the Theora developers on board,
> what about asking at theora-dev?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> David
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