Conference managment running

I've just spend theses last days coding a whole infrastructure to let ODF members managing virtual conference online.

Registered users can now:
- Edit his availability schedule
- View others availability schedule
- Edit his streaming URL and active it when broadcasting

Anybody visiting the foundation website can now view and listen in live the active open dub virtual conference (if one running of course), join the chat room and talk with everyone else viewing/running the virtual conference.

A first public ODVC is planned this Sunday at 7pm (GMT) more info in the dedicated section:
http://open.reggae-dub.com/odvc

Next to all theses improvements, a new project was added to the foundation; 'Murcianists' is dedicated to all people that made the Murcia gathering possible, don't hesitate to download it and make your own version !

Murcia Versionist Gathering

I just arrived in Switzerland yesterday after had spend some times with versionist bredrens.

This gathering was a fantastic opportunity to meet versionist members, and to share musical knowledge together. We spend first days jamming together, doing irations and enjoying the nice place where we was staying together.

Then Saturday was the day of the show, an amazing show, the venues was full of spanish reggae-dub-head ready to shake their body and enjoy good music.

Many thanks to Don Fe for his big investment and the great organization !

The show was really good, sound system by I-Rebel and the VISS German crew, Luciano with El Bib doing some roots tunes, then we had the pleasure to enjoy The Manor with YaBass doing some toasting peformance on pure dubwise tune... and finally a really impressive show from 'Zacheous Jackson with Dubheart' (one of best show I ever seen, just after Burning Spear's one).

Inside the 'Versionist Mansion':

You can find more info on the Murcia Versionist Gathering thread.

ODVC 20080131

Here is a video shot from the open dub virtual conference done yesterday, special thanks to KayaGardens (Thomas) to have made test with me.

Was able to do a session with 4 clients (has done first test with 3) at same time without so much lag, but need to do a compromise between image quality/fluidity/sound. Using broadcasting technology, number of clients limit is high.

I privileged fluidity and sound, during session I recorded a full track, here is the result, quality is exactly same as if you was watching the conference in live.

This was done as a try out to test technology for streaming, was able to use VLC but without a stream compatible with an other player than VLC, so I used the Windows Media Encoder.

Recorded at home, I haven't Internet access at studio, so the mix is done using digital stuff (MIDI interface controlling PC), doesn't sound same as mixing in studio !

Next step is to build a good infrastructure on ODF to make able anybody join the conference, and give possibility to member to start their own.