Agenda
In attendance: Peter, Elaine, Ann, Kris, Molly, Ranjani
1. Housekeeping
- a. Meeting times
- b. Meeting Minutes - M & A to alternate
- c. Wiki - Molly to send wiki URL to group
- d. Next meeting – January 22th at 11:30 - 12:30 am, Ford Room (9-152)
2. We’d be interested in hearing from Elaine, Kate, and Peter about the group you are on that is working on video for GIRs.
They've been discussing the vision and philosophy behind fitting classrooms with video capture equipment. Focusing on the 5 large halls on campus. Its a possible pilot program. E & P are going to explore turnkey operation for the rooms, and get a cost estimate. Who pays for this? Who knows? Its a mandate with no funding and no authority. It could be either self service or hand-off to AMPS. Questions around archiving, who supplies and supports archives? Big question. Currently no storage space. They'll be making recommendations and best-practices.
Big GIR rooms are supported by AV and AMPS. Necessary to have staff on-hand for current set up.
The perfect situation at Berkeley - prof presses a button, and the course is taped. They'll be a good guinea pig to go before us. We can learn from them.
E & P are talking about high-end INSTALLED, where you don't need staff person to operate the equipment.
Make note: AV is unionized and AMPS is not. Potential for awkward situations.
Recommendations for both installed systems and roll-around carts, operated by a trained person, either staff or student.
They'll come up with a report over the next few months, something in the spring. Figure out what is the best package for each space, would like a cookie cutter approach, also take into considerations the whole life-cycle - capture to archiving. Kaltura would supply this (but its $50k per year, not considering the hardware)
Faculty weighing in on the GIR project? Chris Terman was on the committee. Duncan Kincaid was a part of it. $100,000 to $500,000 initial estimate for rolling out the entire project.
Previous team did non-HD. But now MITCET wants HD.
3. Begin discussion about what the technology and services options of video are currently at MIT – see group charge for specifics.
Who's doing video on their own? Sloan is.
Looking at it from a service options side: AMPS, AV, outside campus. In-house projects, autonomous self service: NMC.
Pro-sumer side: In Media Lab, CoLab (Alexa Mills), RRTN(MIT based, al the workers are MIT students, under SOA), Gambit, many have their communications people who have media skills, AV, etc. Alot of them are using TechTV for their backend. They're pro-sumers, so to speak.
Part of our reason for our mandate is to come up with a DIY for these groups so that the support matrix is simpler. Streamline the process. Many answers to these on the wiki. Elaine will upload her notes to the wiki.
4. Are there other places at MIT that we should be looking for this information as well?
5. Discussion about what standards and guidelines already exist. Is there research we need to do?
Not sure what standards and guidelines are here at MIT. Research and guidelines that already exist that we want to adopt. Kris: there are no MIT policy standards at MIT. So there is an opportunity to carve out and layout guidelines. There no precedent, no set institute-wide. Open terrain for us.
Ann: does Berkely have standards? Maybe UVA has capture standards?
What do E & K think of Kaltura? Its a grand idea, but whats on the inside? Its open source. There are some vague areas.
6. Video kit – any demo models for us to look at? didn't get to this.
Action items for next meeting:
People who have not yet done so, please review previous team findings here:https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/video/Home
E & K review standards, guidelines. Start looking at them by the next meeting. Start with an outline of areas of standards.