Re: FOSDEM 2019 - we need a VGA to HDMI converter! And live streaming

["Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jan.
22., K, 19:50):
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 01:16:33PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:53:43AM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> > > No one can help out here?
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 02:17:39PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> > > > FOSDEM from this year only supports HDMI.
> > > >
> > > > For those of us on older laptops, can anyone bring a VGA -> HDMI
> > > > converter?  That would be very helpful.
> > > >
> > > > Also it may be an idea to stream some of the GNU Guix days. These days
> > > > that can be done with phones. Anyone interested in helping out?
> > > >
> > > > Pj.
> > > >
> >
> > I have my phone which I can bring. I'm not really sure how the streaming
> > part works but it would be nice to record it in any case.
>
> I saw people doing it in Kenya. I can ask. I feel like a noob
> sometimes ;)
>

I looked a bit around, istm the android youtube and twitter app does
have an option to do so.
I will experiment a bit with this tomorrow. I also had a look around
if we could use some
matrix.org things to get a big video conference call, but maybe we
should not do that.
I would like to have a look at that option too. Does anyone have a
more free-ish idea?

> > I have a mini-displayport to hdmi adapter that I'm bringing if anyone
> > needs. I also have a DVI->VGA adapter which I don't expect to be useful.
> > I'm not sure if VGA->HDMI exists so much, searching online they're
> > always listed as hdmi->vga or as an "active converter". I might have one
> > somewhere, but I don't remember it ever working.
>
> They exist, but it is complicated hardware ~$15.  No matter, if no one
> has one we'll have to share a laptop for presentations.
>
> Pj.
>

Best regards,
g_bor