THANKS to all the video creators, recorders & presenters! :)

Contents:

1) Monthly Videos List

2) Video Technology

3) Video Sites

===== 1) Monthly Videos List

2010 June

Super Computing for Business, Brian Modra, CLUG
State of the Linux Union 2010, Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation
Journaled Soft-Updates, Dr. Kirk McKusick, BSDCan 2010
Scientific data visualization using Mayavi2, Gael Varoquaux, Python 4 Science
Bringing OLPC to children in Afghanistan, Carol Ruth Silver, OLPC-SF
Text-to-Speech in Ubuntu with Kttsd Kmouth Festival, blip.tv
Rabbi Rabbs, the UnixRabbi, leads a group of Unix geeks, Comedy, UUASC, BS"D, 2003:
The Great Debate - Are We Alone?, Geoff Marcy and Dan Werthimer, SETI@UC Berkeley

Thanks to all the speakers, organizations, & videographers. :)


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=====  Brief Summary of 2010 June Videos:

http://www.archive.org/details/clug-2010-05-11-super-computing-business
CLUG Talk 11 May 2010 - Super Computing for Business (May 11, 2010)
Speaker: Brian Modra

http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1708
Keynote: Jim Zemlin - State of the Linux Union

http://www.youtube.com/bsdconferences#p/u/6/_NuhRkiInvA
  Journaled Soft-Updates, Dr. Kirk McKusick, BSDCan 2010
Adding "journaling lite'' to soft updates and its incorporation into the FreeBSD fast filesystem

http://www.archive.org/details/ucb_py4science_2009_07_14_Gael_Varoquaux
Gael Varoquaux: Scientific data visualization using Mayavi2 (2009)
Talk given by Gael Varoquaux to the "Python 4 Science" group at UC Berkeley on July 14, 2009. Gael formerly worked at Enthought and is now working at INRIA, NeuroSpin, as a research fellow in applied math for neuroscience problems. He uses Mayavi2 extensively and helped contribute to its development.
Abstract: Gael Varoquaux will talk about the evolution from interactive exploration to scripting to application building in the context of scientific data analysis, specifically using the tools in Mayavi2.

http://www.archive.org/details/dv611_carol_ruth_silver_brings_olpc_to_afghanistan
dv611_carol_ruth_silver_brings_olpc_to_afghanistan (2010)
Christian Einfeldt
All of the video images of Afghanistan in this 6:23 video were shot by Carol Ruth Silver using an off-the-shelf consumer hand-held camera that fits in a coat pocket.
This video short tells a brief version of the story of Carol Ruth Silver's non-profit work in bringing Linux-powered OLPC netbook computers to the children of Afghanistan. The story starts at a meeting of OLPC users in San Francisco, California, where Carol is getting some help configuring her computer. She also has decided to share

http://www.archive.org/details/OSGUI-textspeech217
Text-to-Speech in Ubuntu Linux 9.10 with Kttsd Kmouth Festival
In this screencast review I show you the KDE Text-to-Speech system is a plugin based service that allows any KDE (or non-KDE) application to speak using the DBus interface. kmouth is useful front-ends for this capability, while one of festival, flite, and epos are essential back-ends.
blip.tv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt6WcUvGlCs
Great Moments in UUASC History
rabbirabbs  —  May 17, 2010  — Rabbi Rabbs, a.k.a. the UnixRabbi, leads a group of Unix geeks
 Category:  Comedy
BS"D
Highlights from the beginning of a meeting back in 2003:
> I couldn't make it through. I never did have much attention span.
Your signal to Hershel tolerance was always pretty low but thats what
made those talks fun.

http://seti.berkeley.edu/the-great-debate
The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence at UC Berkeley
The Great Debate - Are We Alone? - Geoff Marcy and Dan Werthimer
Science Fiction portrays our Milky Way Galaxy as teeming with advanced civilizations engaged in interstellar communication, commerce, and occasionally star wars. If so, great Galactic societies anticipate offering membership to Earth. Back in our real universe, extraterrestrial life has proved elusive. None has been found. The arguments for and against technological life in the Galaxy have sharpened in recent years. Evidence abounds on Earth of the hardiness of life even in extremely harsh environments. Other evidence suggests the Earth may be a rare type of planet, unusually benign for life as we know it. Evidence on both sides is mounting. Which one is right? There can be only one answer: Either the Milky Way is teeming with technological life or it isn't. Renowned SETI scientist Dan Werthimer will debate planet-hunter and skeptic, Geoff Marcy.


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=====  Full Details for 2010 June Videos:

http://www.archive.org/details/clug-2010-05-11-super-computing-business
CLUG Talk 11 May 2010 - Super Computing for Business (May 11, 2010)
`CLUG Talk: CLUG Talk 11 May 2010 - Super
Speaker: Brian Modra

More CLUG Talks


This movie is part of the collection: CLUG Talks

Producer: Brian Modra
Production Company: Stefano Rivera
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Keywords: CLUG; Distributed Computing; RPC; Parallelism
Contact Information: Cape Linux User Group - Contact CLUG Committee

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa

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http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1708
Keynote: Jim Zemlin - State of the Linux Union
The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only summit gathering core kernel developers, distribution maintainers, ISVs, end users, system vendors and other community organizations for plenary sessions and workgroup meetings to meet face-to-face to tackle and solve the most pressing issues facing Linux today


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http://www.youtube.com/bsdconferences#p/u/6/_NuhRkiInvA
  Journaled Soft-Updates, Dr. Kirk McKusick, BSDCan 2010
From: bsdconferences | May 28, 2010 | 452 views
 
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Adding "journaling lite'' to soft updates and its incorporation into the FreeBSD fast filesystem

Because soft updates prevent most inconsistencies, the journaling need only deal with tracking those inconsistencies that soft updates fails to address. Specifically, the journal contains the information needed to recover the block and inode resources that have been freed but whose freed status failed to make it to disk before a system failure. After a crash, a variant of the venerable fsck program runs through the journal to identify and free the lost resources. Only if a corruption of the log is detected is it necessary to run background fsck. The journal is tiny, 16Mb is usually enough independent of filesystem size. Although journal processing needs to be done before restarting, the processing time is typically just a few seconds and in the worst case a minute. It is not necessary to build a new filesystem to use soft-updates journalling. The addition or deletion of soft-updates journaling to existing FreeBSD fast filesystems is done using the tunefs program.

http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/195.en.html
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http://www.archive.org/details/ucb_py4science_2009_07_14_Gael_Varoquaux
Gael Varoquaux: Scientific data visualization using Mayavi2 (2009)
Talk given by Gael Varoquaux to the "Python 4 Science" group at UC Berkeley on July 14, 2009. Gael formerly worked at Enthought and is now working at INRIA, NeuroSpin, as a research fellow in applied math for neuroscience problems. He uses Mayavi2 extensively and helped contribute to its development.

Abstract:
Gael Varoquaux will talk about the evolution from interactive exploration to scripting to application building in the context of scientific data analysis, specifically using the tools in Mayavi2.

Note: A zip file containing the example code handed out in the talk can be downloaded from the "All Files - HTTP" link on the left. File name is: ucb_py4science_2009_07_14.zip.


This movie is part of the collection: Community Video

Producer: UC Berkeley Python 4 science
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: python

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http://www.archive.org/details/dv611_carol_ruth_silver_brings_olpc_to_afghanistan
dv611_carol_ruth_silver_brings_olpc_to_afghanistan (2010)
Christian Einfeldt
All of the video images of Afghanistan in this 6:23 video were shot by Carol Ruth Silver using an off-the-shelf consumer hand-held camera that fits in a coat pocket.

This video short tells a brief version of the story of Carol Ruth Silver's non-profit work in bringing Linux-powered OLPC netbook computers to the children of Afghanistan. The story starts at a meeting of OLPC users in San Francisco, California, where Carol is getting some help configuring her computer. She also has decided to share video with the Digital Tipping Point project, to support our effort in documenting her story. She is seen attaching her hand-held Flip video camera to a Ubuntu-Linux notebook computer owned by GNU-Linux technologist Grant Bowman, who also happens to be a technicians who is one of the backbones of the local San Francisco Bay Area Linux migration efforts that the Digital Tipping Point is documenting.

In this video, Carol tells a bit about the children she is supporting with OLPC computers. These kids don't have schools, but instead are educated in homes or sometimes outside by sitting on the ground as their lessons are read to them. Some factions in Afghanistan are opposed to educating children, thinking that a religious teaching is all that is needed for them. Sometimes their schools are blown up by these opposing factions. The beauty of using mobile OLPC computers is that they are not sitting targets for bombers, but instead move around with the kids.

Unfortunately, some of the video shot on Carol's Flip camera was corrupted, and had to be cut or truncated to remove the corrupted portions.

This video represents the first effort by the DTP crew to composite music, still images, video from other artists, along with DTP-shot video into a new composited whole. Up to this point, the 100-plus hours of video on the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection has consisted of simple storyboard edited video with no music, and no contributions from other artist molded together into one complete work. Almost every movie made for the big screen since Titanic has been rendered on Linux server farms, but most of the software running on top of Linux has been non-Free proprietary applications. This video was made almost entirely with Free Open Source Software, from the capturing to the transfer to the editing and compositing and even uploading to the Internet Archive. And, of course, the Internet Archive itself runs on GNU-Linux. The only non-Free software used in making this video are the packages used for decoding and re-encoding the non-Free formats from the Flip video camera.


This movie is part of the collection: The Digital Tipping Point

Producer: Christian Einfeldt
Production Company: Digital Tipping Point Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: OLPC; One Laptop Per Child

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http://www.archive.org/details/OSGUI-textspeech217
Text-to-Speech in Ubuntu Linux 9.10 with Kttsd Kmouth Festival
In this screencast review I show you the KDE Text-to-Speech system is a plugin based service that allows any KDE (or non-KDE) application to speak using the DBus interface. kmouth is useful front-ends for this capability, while one of festival, flite, and epos are essential back-ends.


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt6WcUvGlCs
Great Moments in UUASC History
rabbirabbs  —  May 17, 2010  — Rabbi Rabbs, a.k.a. the UnixRabbi, leads a group of Unix geeks
 Category:  Comedy
BS"D
Highlights from the beginning of a meeting back in 2003:
> I couldn't make it through. I never did have much attention span.
Your signal to Hershel tolerance was always pretty low but thats what
made those talks fun.


Tags:
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BS"D
Highlights from the beginning of a meeting back in 2003:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt6WcUvGlCs
Ah fr?elich'n Shavuous !!
-- the unixrabbi
Watch Comedian Rabbi Rabbs' hilarious videos at
http://www.youtube.com/user/rabbirabbs

One of the funnier bits was in the opening credits , where its called
a "short" monolouge.
That was a tough crowd, with Lynda and myself heckling.
Jordan

> I couldn't make it through. I never did have much attention span.
Your signal to Hershel tolerance was always pretty low but thats what
made those talks fun.
Jordan


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http://seti.berkeley.edu/the-great-debate

The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence at UC BerkeleyThe Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence at UC Berkeley

The Great Debate - Are We Alone? - Geoff Marcy and Dan Werthimer
Science Fiction portrays our Milky Way Galaxy as teeming with advanced civilizations engaged in interstellar communication, commerce, and occasionally star wars. If so, great Galactic societies anticipate offering membership to Earth. Back in our real universe, extraterrestrial life has proved elusive. None has been found. The arguments for and against technological life in the Galaxy have sharpened in recent years. Evidence abounds on Earth of the hardiness of life even in extremely harsh environments. Other evidence suggests the Earth may be a rare type of planet, unusually benign for life as we know it. Evidence on both sides is mounting. Which one is right? There can be only one answer: Either the Milky Way is teeming with technological life or it isn't. Renowned SETI scientist Dan Werthimer will debate planet-hunter and skeptic, Geoff Marcy.


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http://seti.berkeley.edu/node/74
Weekly Meeting Updates 5/3/10
Sun, 05/09/2010 - 15:34 — travisk

Jeff is working on data quality; we may need to get new data for alpha's pointing model, but Dan isn't too worried about the inevitable small corrections. Jeff thinks the biggest data quality issue at present is Matt's radar blanking project.

Matt's been hard at work trying to figure out if there's an imperfection in our software blanking code; results from running data through the software blanker have not been matching those of hardware-blanked data. While Dan suspects that maybe the software blanker just works better, Matt and Jeff are still suspicious that the software blanker may have a bug.

Matt has the latest developments: Waterfall plots indicated that the tests he had been running were not optimal for comparing the hardware-blanker to the software-blanker, but this had the unintentional side effect of proving that the software blanker was functioning properly. Matt discovered, through a conversation with Eric, that his problems detecting artificially injected data were the result of a minor error. He is optimistic for the next week of tests.

Dan and Eric discussed adding an autocorrelation test function to SETI@home. Quoth
Dan, "Jerry Harp believes that ET wants to broadcast a message that has a signpost (meaning it's easy to see) but also message content. These will both be in the same signal. Traditionally, you send a narrowband signal, and it's surrounded by a signal at lower power, wider band. People would see the narrowband and then they’d dig deeper and find the wideband. The problem is you have to decide how much power to put in the carrier and how much to put into the message. Jerry has another way: send a message, and a delayed copy of the message. That degrades the signal because you’re broadcasting two things at once. The way you search for it is in delay space, when you shift them you find out that they perfectly align. The idea is there’s something easy to find and then also something hard to find with content. It’s an easy thing to add and we could put it in there. It might add 5% more computation."

That's all for this week. Keep your eyes on the stars.

2009 December

CLUG Talk 09 July 2009 - Puppet
http://www.archive.org/details/clug-2009-07-09-puppet

http://glenjarvis.com/static/media/videos/baypiggies/2009_05_28/
What are these mystery videos about??? Maybe you can find out in the mailing list archives:  
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/baypiggies/

http://www.archive.org/details/Jefferai-CampKDE2009Welcome240-2
This keynote by Wade Olson charts the course that led to the first Camp KDE ever, and what we might expect in the future.
It also features some words by the founder of the Negril Environmental and Educational Trust.

http://www.archive.org/details/Jefferai-CampKDE2009DiversityInKDE865-2
Till Adam and Adriaan deGroot put on their Pradeepto hat and talk about diversity in the KDE community.
(The camera crew skipped somewhere, unfortunately.)

Ekiga 3 VOIP HowTo Install - Chaitanya Mehandru -  1h
Live - Most distros only have version 2

The Asterisk Free Software Telephone System - Paul Charles Leddy - 1h23m
http://nylug.org/meetings/index.shtml?20081000 

GPGPU - General Purpose GPUs - John Stone - 1h43m
http://www.archive.org/details/clug-28-10-2008-gpu-computing

Debian Edu 100% in main - Holger Levsen - 1h
https://penta.debconf.org/dc8_schedule/events/286.en.html

GStreamer Multimedia Framework - Richard Spiers - 42m
http://www.archive.org/details/clug-30-09-2008-gstreamer

How to rock the show with KDE - Lydia Pintscher - 30m
http://akademy.kde.org/conference/presentation/42.php
- "How to present the KDE project at a conference."


**  Download the talk videos you want to see the day _before_ the
meeting, so your internet connection is free to do VOIP, & not consumed
with the video download.   :) 

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 09:56:56PM -0700, john_re wrote:

I don't have time at the moment to look at specific files, but I do know
we have many talks that were somewhat erratically cut during the live
production. We have not had time to go back through them and edit them
together to get something that makes more sense. I know it's confusing
and have myself been confused by it. Hopefully we'll find ways to fix
this part of the work flow to limit this mess for future events.

Sorry not to be able to be more help at the moment.

-Eric Rz.