#apertus IRC Channel Logs

off to bed now ... have a good one everyone!

off for now ... bbl

ohai everyone, as announced and planned (https://lab.apertus.org/T260) we will have an IRC meeting now :)

:)

hello everyone :)

hello everyone !

let's do the meta stuff first, because this needs to be done

that would be monday 2nd jan 19:00

no cons

fine here

then 2nd and last meta issue

i'll post the summary from the meeting to the mailing list(s), my question is: where should i archive it additionally?

the channel is logged, so it will be archived anyway

maybe in the future it might make sense to have a separate 'meeting digest' or so?

ok then i'll just make something pu :D

maybe if there're some issues that can be interresting to a broader audience we can think of a digest

otherwise, the log is enough

sounds fine and sufficient to me

on to the meeting itself

fire away!

probably best to make that 'moderated' instead of chaotic :)

no problem there

I'm currently working on a number of Beta related hardware and software part

on the hardware side, I'm working on:

- incorporating SFE changes to both THT and ZIF version

let me list first, we can then get into details if you want to :)

- a test rig for power board testing

- HDMI in plugin

- GPS shield

on the software side:

- software for HDMI in (FPGA code and userspace)

- advanced routing fabric interconnect (FPGA, Lattice & Xilinx)

besides that, there are some 'projects' cooking, but not really active

so, where do you want to get more details? :)

SFE = Sensor Front End

THT = Through Hole Technology

we have two kinds of frontends currently

one uses a ZIF (cpu) socket for the CMV12k

ok, clear now

ok cool, do you need anything from anyone that should be mentioned here, or should we move on to next reporter?

(also: sounds amazing! nice to hear so much stuff progressing :))

how developped is the SD card raid project ?

(and yes : sounds amazing all what is already in the pipelines !)

ok!

i can take the turn !

the Belgian team have made contact with one teacher from Louis-Lumière (french cinema school) and he is making some research with his students to elaborate the picture pipeline (they were discussing with A1ex, but the project is on hold for the moment)

and finally, we establish contact with Jacques Perconte, french video artist (https://vimeo.com/jacquesperconte), that is willing to make a collaboration with apertus° for a specific project of his own (by the end of 2017, beginning of 2018).

the first meeting end up with an idea of making an "open kino", that is a festival where we make movies in 72h with only FLOSS tools !

the first one should be organize in april.

either you are typing extremely fast or you did prepare well ;)

we also think of preparing the beta with a wifi usb dongle so we can access the menu easily (as with the alpha software)

we'll try to make a twice per month rendez-vous

not yet

great ! what would be a "right" usb dongle

one which has a driver compiled

best check what is enabled in /proc/config.gz

ok super, sounds awesome, thanks max! who's up next? davidak? se6astian?

i can report next

all ears! :)

it is already really clear how it will be organized and we already working on details.

we also want to setup a new forum for users and participants. there RexOrCine is investigating what our options are and then the team can make an educated decision :)

ah cool, looks good

etherpad 2.0 :)

(that's the 2.0, but do continue :))

who will be doing the drupal setup?

or do you mean the final deployment to the live server?

i'm not sure on that

se6astian is involved here

like statis content caching?

static

ah, ok

i will test it!

anything else to consider?

basically boils down to having meaningful alt tags and similar

can you recommend a tester?

anyone else want to report?

i had in mind to go last, but that might be now anyway, so, sure :)

i did some stuff on elmyra lately to kinda wrap up easy accessibility for a larger audience

what works very nice ;)

i'll let it rest for now, and see what happens when the team talk is posted where elmyra is featured

asides that i have been exploring visualization for the beta

i've dived into unreal engine 4 and looked at some possibilites to interactively visualize the beta in there (snippet: http://fdpl.foundation/beta-ue4.mp4)

haha yeah ;)

Bertl gave me some pointers to how to set up a EAGLE -> 3D model pipeline for the beta pcb designs

that's basically a plugin for FreeCAD that allows to import *.brd files, among others

interesting

or rather: the problem of actually having the needed 3d models on disk :D

well, that I consider the least problem to be honest

i might be a non-issue, i just feel a bit lost in terms of what components even exist, how many there are, where to start etc. :)

yeah exactly, i'm trying to get an overview how much work that might be, and how to possibly split it up if necessary or helpful

so there is only one model for all 0402 R's required for example

that's exactly the insider knowhow i'm missing, and that makes me a bit lost in this :)

no problem with that ... happy to share

btw, the FreeCad solution should cover future KiCad projects too (which I consider nice)

Alright then, thanks everyone for participating in this first general apertus IRC meeting!!

thanks for the moderation! appreciated!

my pleasure!

thanks everyone. it was very informative!

bye!

Is the "Please do not seek technical support about Elphel cameras in IRC...." remark on https://www.apertus.org/irc-chat still an issue? I think this could be removed otherwise

off for a nap ... bbl