SCN: SCNA general meeting 6/9.

[Randy Groves]

The idea certainly has potential.  A topic that came up several times at
the meeting and does need to be addressed at some point is that we are
hugely at the mercy of SPL and their network connection.  I was not privy
to any discussions specifically on this issue, but in the past there have
been (via hearsay) statements by the library to the effect that if we start
becoming a drain on the resources, we may be asked to leave.  So that has
to be kept in the back of our minds as we contemplate additional services.
In a way, it would be a positive, though - to become popular enough again
that we pose a dilemma for the library ...

-randy

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:30 PM, <sc at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> We decided on setting up a mailing list (I know, another one)
>>
>
> Randy,
>
> If you can find someone with current access to the SCN system
> who wants to do it, please transfer the ownership of the old scn
> list to whoever that is. It would cut down on my spam-bounce
> messages. Thanks.
>
> Almost the only volunteer Internet thing I'm doing these days is
> helping with Marty McLaren's Web site (marty4ssd.com). It'd be
> nice to have a place to stream video of public meetings and
> such, and not be limited to 32kbps or 48kbps .mp3 audio files.
> I've tried Youtube and it works, but it'd be nice to have a
> better alternative.
>
> The Seattle Channel's School Board videos are 256kbps for the
> audio and video combined. That's about the same bandwidth as
> some MP3 Internet radio streams. Low-end video is starting to be
> less far-fetched than it used to be. Even bumping the bitrate to
> twice that might be less laughable than you think. What would be
> particularly fun is eventually developing the capability to
> stream video live from field locations via Wifi or cell phone
> data links. People are out there doing stuff. It's not all text.
> Would SCN potentially be interested in anything like this?
>
> Rod Clark
> sc at sdf.org
>
>
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