[GRLUG] Status of things

[Steve Romanow]

Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Ben Rousch<brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Ben Rousch<brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Anyone who has tried to edit video in Linux knows the exhausting
>>>> process. If
>>>> I ever find a simple, stable, and powerful Linux video editor on par
>>>> with
>>>> iMovie I will be sure to share the love with you all. At any rate, I can
>>>> edit and encode the videos and put them online. My G4 averages about one
>>>> hour to encode five minutes of DVD quality video. Hopefully it won't
>>>> explode.
>>>>         
>> Success! I was able to edit the first of the GRLUG videos using 100% Linux
>> software. Mencoder and Kino are the heroes. I will be putting together a
>> future demo on this wonderful technology.
>>
>> Does the GRLUG have a server suitable for providing these videos over the
>> Internet? The XVid encoded version of the OpenGroupware presentation weighs
>> in at 312MB. I can make the video available via my BlogSpot blog and SmugMug
>> account, but it would be better if there was a more "official" location.
>>     
>
> Something like that shouldn't be particularly painful to serve up via
> BitTorrent.  It's probably also suitable for Archive.org; It certainly
> represents a piece of modern culture and local community.
>
>   
archive.org sounds really good, and we can link to it in all the other 
mentioned places.