FSCONS 2011/Hardware team responsibilities

Tasks

The hardware team has two primary tasks:

• Record the talks
• Prepare conference computers

For these purposes there are a number of camera kits (three) complete with a camera, a tripod and recordable media available, as well as a couple of laptops.

Team Leader Responsibilities

The team leader is responsible for:

• ensuring that there is enough equipment to fulfill the tasks, and otherwise to in a timely fashion inform the core team of the deficiencies.
• maintaining an inventory of the equipment
• coordinate with programme manager about any special hardware requests from speakers (including initiating a mailing to all speakers, asking them about any special needs)
• preparing the equipment before the conference
  • ensuring that all equipment is present
  • ensuring that all equipment is operational
  • installing any special software on the laptops
• retrieving the equipment from secure storage at the beginning of each conference day
• putting the equipment into secure storage at the end of each conference day
• coordinating and scheduling hardware team members on where to be and what to do

Team Member Responsibilities

A team member will:

• show up on time, or inform the team leader of absence in a timely fashion
• coordinate with the speaker presenter to start recording
• record talks
• keep track of "their" assigned hardware (camera/laptop) at all times

Resources

Tutorial (in Swedish) on how to make good TV from a lecture/presentation: Så gör du snygg TV av din föreläsning