The Norwegian Unix User Group, +where I am a member, and where people interested in free software, +open standards and UNIX like operating systems like Linux and the BSDs +come together, record our monthly technical presentations on video. +The purpose is to document the talks and spread them to a wider +audience. For this, the the Norwegian nationwide open channel +Frikanalen is a useful venue. +Since a few days ago, when I figured out the +REST API to program the +channel time schedule, +the channel has been filled with NUUG talks, related recordings and +some Creative Commons licensed TED talks (from archive.org). I fill +all "leftover bits" on the channel with content from NUUG, which at +the moment is almost 17 of 24 hours every day.
+ +The list of NUUG videos +uploaded so far +include things like a +one hour talk by John +Perry Barlow when he visited Oslo, a presentation of +Haiku, the BeOS +re-implementation, the +history of FiksGataMi, +the Norwegian version of FixMyStreet, the good old +Warriors of the net +video and many others.
+ +We have a large backlog of NUUG talks not yet uploaded to +Frikanalen, and plan to upload every useful bit to the channel to +spread the word there. I also hope to find useful recordings from the +Chaos Computer Club and Debian conferences and spread them on the +channel as well. But this require locating the videos and their meta +information (title, description, license, etc), and preparing the +recordings for broadcast, and I have not yet had the spare time to +focus on this. Perhaps you want to help. Please join us on IRC, +#nuug on irc.freenode.net +if you want to help make this happen.
+ +But as I said, already the channel is already almost exclusively +filled with technical topics, and if you want to learn something new +today, check out the Ogg Theora +web stream or use one of the other ways to get access to the +channel. Unfortunately the Ogg Theora recoding for distribution still +do not properly sync the video and sound. It is generated by recoding +a internal MPEG transport stream with MPEG4 coded video (ie H.264) to +Ogg Theora / Vorbis, and we have not been able to find a way that +produces acceptable quality. Help needed, please get in touch if you +know how to fix it using free software.
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