Last night's Pyowa meeting was great. We had a pretty decent attendance, with 2 new faces which is always exciting. We had some soda and pizza, which is always good, then spent about 10-15 minutes showing everyone our development area in the IMT office. After that I presented mattspackage, which is a simple application to demonstrate how to register and upload python modules to Pypi.
I also set up a uStream.tv channel and, using CamTwist, did a live screen cast and recorded it. I think this is a really great thing that I hope to continue for future Pyowa meetings. Here is the recorded screen cast. CamTwist/uStream seems to have done a pretty adequate job as far as audio is concerned, but unfortunately the combo resulted in very poor video quality.
Also, a very important thing that I totally screwed up is that I completely ignored the fact that I was live streaming and recording myself. So if you happened to log on during the presentation and had a question, comment or concern, I'm sorry that you were ignored. You will probably also notice there are a number of comments and/or questions made in the background of the video that are inaudible. Next time, I will make sure that we have an "in person" volunteer who can be the voice of any remote attendees. I will also be sure to repeat questions for the microphone. If you are reading this, it is your responsibility to hold me to those promises.
In future meetings, I think I will give TinyChat a try, and depending on how that goes maybe also try LiveStream. If anybody has any suggestions for some light weight live screen cast software, I'd be more than happy to try anything. Also, if you happen to be a company who has some excellent live screen casting software and would like some beta testers or someone to endorse your product I would be willing to use your product for free :).
Here is the unfortunately low quality live screen cast from our meeting. You can browse the code here.
Video streaming by Ustream
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