*the* videoteam - the first 20 years


a very brief and even more incomplete history

(these slides were made last night very quickly and late...)

DebConf3


free food, a total Debian newbee/user, I've met the the ssh maintainer!!1

recordings, still in some cellar in Oslo

incl the sexist ftp team talk with all the super models...

DebConf4


no recordings

a wonderful talk how to do talks

/me was sad there were no recordings and in the meantime I got a bit involved in DebConf...

so then...

DebConf5


I had no clue about video but proposed we do videos..

and we did

cinelarra, herman amd ~10 more people

8 hours talks and manual recordings, and 8 hours cutting at night, Eric Evans totally exhausted after the event...

look mum, we're on slashdot

DebConf6


Ben Hutching joined and wrote dvdindex or some such.

and he wrote dvswitch

so we could stream cockroaches from mexico to ridiculize prejudices...

...


lots of stuff omitted... someone someone should turn this into a proper talk

FOSDEM 2014, Wouter Verhelst and me and lots of people for the first time did all FOSDEM rooms

2014 was my last DebConf as videoteam member until 2024... :)

sreview was born...

20 years in stats


1.5 tb

2119 video files with meta data

4824 video files in total

(ogg, webm, mp4, mkv, mpeg, avi, AVI)

starting with debconf4 (?!?)

54 events (22 debconfs)

missing bits


voctomix wasn't mentioned, this is a spontaneous lighting talk, late (night) prepared, and twinpacts are also crucial and missing. and more. someone (tm) should do a real talk to tell the complete history..!

tumbleweed, olasd, ivodd, urbec, carlfk, tassie, tvaz, pollo, tobi, fil, too many to be named... ... ... ... !

finally: who in this room has been a videoteam volunteer aka member?

THANK YOU

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