Un Posto al Sole: Finding My Place in the Sun

I'm sitting in a hotel room in Baltimore, listening to a meeting while monitoring the live stream of Bryan Cantrill's presentation at LISA '09. As you can (partly) see on my screen, I've been using the video blog, Twitter and irc (#opensolaris) to let people know this is available. Which has resulted in 26 people on the live stream, at the moment.

The technicalities and camera work of the stream are being done by the merry (and very competent) crew at USENIX - Sun sponsored the live video stream and recording, so I'll be able to use their files afterwards to produce final, edited videos.

^ social media in action: you can see the video stream going out on the right

On October 29th, Brendan Gregg spoke at the Front Range OpenSolaris User Group meeting on "Little Shop of Performance Horrors" (a Halloween theme). Yes, we taped it - edited video will follow soon.

George Wilson and Jeff Bonwick Of the comestible items which fuel engineers, the only thing missing in this picture is caffeine.

The main reason I did videoblogging training at Sun's Menlo Park offices a couple of weeks ago (rather than at some other time) was to get my colleague Teresa Giacomini ready to film the OpenSolaris User Group meeting she ran in Dresden this week. Looks as if she handled it just fine!

photo by stiefkind

Yet another in the videoblogging tips series: how to get good footage of engineers who may not be accustomed to being filmed.