After some issues with the US Post Office, I received the PyCon Video data in the mail today from LD ‘Gus’ Landis. He and Bill Chipman took on the task of video taping as much of the PyCon 2007 conference as they could. They worked with Jeff Rush (Co-Chair and in charge of the audio feed recordings), and the entire audio team co-ordinated by Carl Karsten, to provide the world with this information; using their personal video equipment. Gus has already ripped all the video into a common format and generated a preliminary index of the data denoting the date and first talk on the file, each file ~1GB in size (THANK YOU!!!!). Over the next 4 days I will get a full index made and flesh out the preliminary production schedule. (Yes this includes multiple open source, linux friendly formats.)

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