Project Sponsor

Name: Clint Savage

Fedora Account Name: herlo

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Infrastructure Sponsor: Needed

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Project Info

Project Name: Fedora Streaming Server

Target Audience: Fedora Contributors interested in sharing audio/video in real-time.

Expiration/Delivery Date (required): January 8, 2009

Description/Summary:

The sole purpose of this request is to implement and configure an icecast streaming server for FUDCons and other Fedora events where the presentations can be recorded (audio and/or video) and streamed to the external audience at large.

Project plan (Detailed):

Deploy icecast and configure several mount points.
Allow audio source client to deploy audio streaming tool (darkice or ices2) and configure it to connect to the icecast server.
Passwords are set up for each mount, or in general.

Goals:

The main goal is to make it easier for individuals who cannot make Fedora Events (FUDCon and the like) to be able to participate at least by audio or video streams. This of course, is a one way presentation, but gives a good feel for what's going on in certain environments.

We anticipate the server to provide audio/video from older presentations or for streaming podcasts from Fedora contributors ongoing.

Other Notes:

I currently host and maintain an icecast server on http://stream.utos.org and it rarely needs any maintenance. Although, I plan to work to set up more agile authorization and a way to modify the config from the web by people in the group. This will allow them to update the mounts (streams) available and set stream passwords on the fly.