OMwiki:FAQ
Q: What meetings are available?
A: As of 2-October-2009, the collection consists of 44 meetings pertaining to shared governance at The Pennsylvania State University, 16 sessions from the Open Video Conference, 3 sessions from Wiki-Conference 2009, and 4 sessions from Wikimania 2006. New meetings are being added on a continual basis (both as-recorded and from a video backlog) and video submissions are welcome.
All meetings are hosted on the Internet Archive and are available for browsing and/or download. The vast majority of the content is non-transcribed, although official minutes may be available.
Q: What's the story behind the logo?
A: The logo is adopted from a 19th century Caligraph ad published by The American Writing Machine Co., as "Type Writer" was a Remington brand name at the time. The ad reads:
The "CALIGRAPH" is the only writing machine that fully economizes time and labor, and economy of time and labor is the best reason we know for soliciting trade.
"OPEN MEETINGS" has been substituted via GIMP and Inkscape for the original lettering of "CALIGRAPH". The logo is not trademarked and represents more of an idea than a brand identity.
Q: I'm having bandwidth issues.
A: High-speed internet connections originating from Penn State University, Pittsburgh, Virgina, Washington D.C., and surrounding areas should have excellent connectivity. Visitors outside of this core coverage area may experience delayed playback; options including a content delivery network, local seek from pre-downloaded meetings, and audio-only playback are under development.
Q: Is there a way to view video using native playback in Safari?
A: Yes! Please install XiphQT, which also provides export to Ogg Theora from any QuickTime-based application.
Q: What about mobile device support?
A: You will be able to view wikipages and transcripts, but video playback and JavaScript-based navigation likely will not work. Device bandwidth may or may not be high enough to load the visual finding aid.
Mobile device support is a work-in-progress. If you have good experiences with a particular device, please edit this page.
Q: Is it possible to sequence clips as to create my own video mashup?
A: Almost, but not yet.
Q: Donations?
A: Both financial and equipment donations are welcome.
Q: How do I ask a question not listed here?
A: Please login, click edit, then list your question after a blank Q:.
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