[liberationtech] LibrePlanet 2014 keynote

[Griffin Boyce]

Nick wrote:
> Yep, and it worked well, with really good quality, even projected onto
> a big screen. Questions were asked to him over IRC (mostly through
> audience members on their laptops, some via a volunteer at the front).
> I got the impression there was a bit of latency, but in this context
> it didn't matter at all. 

  It was incredibly smooth to watch at LibrePlanet, only glitching twice
(and briefly at that).  I was pretty surprised, but shouldn't be.  The
last time I checked the speed of my Tor connection, I got 645kbps, which
is fast enough to livestream video.  And occasionally I test Flash Proxy
by running music videos through it :x For science.

  One thing he mentioned in his talk was that it took about a day for
him to get everything set up.  It's a pretty serious community fail if
it takes an experienced developer who writes in C a *day* to get free
software configured to livestream.  This is something that should be
wrapped into a usable, well-maintained app by now.  Honestly.

~Griffin