Ah, good point(s). Perhaps it was merely implied, or otherwise not sufficiently clear, but in any case, the ceiling mounted projectors are there (there's only one* that we ever use), likewise for screen(s), and the equipment that allows us to plug in an RCA connector composite video cable. What's not there is the converter from DE-15F (VGA/SVGA) to RCA connector composite NTSC video - but Dick has and owns that, and he's almost always there and brings it. Extension cords are also notably absent in general, but as long as power is only needed on the stage relatively close to the other video equipment there, that tends to not be an issue. If someone doesn't beat me to it, I'll probably eventually get those items a bit more clarified on that wiki page. I also have in mind to add a little bit more about speakers/presenters supplying us varous shorter and longer text blurbs, for use on web page(s), announcement(s), etc. Unfortulately the wiki footnote feature doesn't work worth beans - they end up creating anchors not to items on that page, but to the main BALUG web page ... otherwise I might also use those, so that we could give folks linked URLs to go to a specific area/item on the page. We could split it up into multiple pages, but I think it's probably better to have all that related stuff likely to be of interest/concern to speakers/presenters (and potential speakers/presenters) all together on one single page, rather than having to navigate about and/or snag/copy/read/etc. from a bunch of separate pages. Perhaps at some point, I (or someone) might want to add a high-level summary of the various information, up towards the top ... as the page as a whole is a lot of text to read ... but it does include lots of detail, ... probably all, or most all of which is likely to be relevant and at least of potential question/concern to speakers/presenters ... so I'd be rather disinclined to remove much of anything from the page. Such a high level summary might point out in each main point, various areas further below to read for more details of note (e.g. "High level summary" ... "see also sections mentioned further below for various details of note" "Video Projection - you get us DE-15 F VGA/SVGA output at some reasonable resolution, and we'll get about 640x480 of that projected onto screen with TV (NTSC) quality resolution - see also "Video Projection" under "Room and facilities for talk/presentation".). If the wiki footnotes "feature" actually worked, we could link to that more detailed reference on the page, ... "oh well". *well, not sure about historically back through our peak attendance meeting of nearly 400, but we've only used one in more recent years. Quoting jim stockford:

thanks lots! what seems missing is instruction as to how to get stuff (mics, projector, etc) there. contact <PERSON_WITH_THING> and arrange to get <THING> there? is some stuff always at the restaurant?

On Nov 17, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Michael Paoli wrote:

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Re: requirements and resources (for speakers) - have a single page with all pertinent info I'm hoping we pretty well have that now :-) : http://www.balug.org/modules.php? op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&pagename=For%20Presenters%20%2F%20Sp eakers

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From: jim stockford Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:08:56 -0700

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It seems to me that requirements and resources are kind of buried amidst email streams and other detritus. I'll look for info and am proposing we have a single page with all pertinent info.