[FOSS4G-Oceania] Motion: A/V spending

[Martin Tomko]

+1

From: FOSS4G-Oceania <foss4g-oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 4:01 pm
To: "foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org" <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Motion: A/V spending


+1

On 30/10/18 3:12 pm, John Bryant wrote:
Hi all,

I've been running around a fair bit over the past few weeks, pulling together the information we need about A/V at the venue. The Uni has some excellent equipment in place, and nearly all of our needs are met without any additional expenditure.

There are 2 items I'd like to get approval for spending money on though:

  1.  An on-site Uni-supplied A/V tech to be present to help immediately resolve any technical issues. Without this, we have the option of calling the Uni help desk, and A/V issues will be resolved in due course. However, we have a tight schedule, and an A/V issue could cause a major disruption. Also, for a significant part of the program, we'll be running in 3 rooms, so 3x the risk of something going wrong. To have a dedicated A/V tech on site will cost something in the range of $1000-1400 for the 2 days.
  2.  Additional microphones in Theatres B & C. The secondary rooms (B & C) only come equipped with a single lapel mic, no handheld mics. This means that session chairs & presenters would have to share a lapel mic, and there are no handheld mics for the audience to ask questions. This is especially problematic for the video recording, which relies on the built-in PA system for the audio, but could also present problems for people with hearing difficulties. There is an easy solution: an on-campus company called AVMelbourne can provide extra A/V equipment, which in this case would involve installing an additional microphone kit in the 2 rooms for the 2 conf days, giving us 2 lapels & 2 handheld mics in each room, which would be plenty. They've quoted $1200 for this service.
The Public Lecture Theatre comes supplied with 1 lapel mic and 2 handheld mics, so should be OK as is. We have the option of getting additional mics installed for the panel session, but I've asked around a bit and people seem to be OK with 1 lapel & 2 HH for that session.

The current budget already has $1000 for 'Audio visual equipment & labour', so the total impact of this proposal is to increase that budget item by to $1600.

So, the motion is:

We increase the Audio visual equipment & labour expense in the budget by $1600 to cover the incremental cost of: 1) a Uni A/V person on site during the conference days, and 2) additional microphones in the secondary presentation rooms during the conference days.

I know I would sleep a bit easier with these in place, so obviously a +1 from me. We have a very healthy budget surplus to draw from.

Cheers
John




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