Wilderness reSynced

On Friday 11th October we held the first of a series of reSync workshops in Deckspace, ‘Wilderness’ where we reviewed tools for collaborative video production, considered how best to construct reports and investigated the mechanics of Bit Torrent Sync in preparation for inclusion at future workshops.

We began at noon with a run through of the objectives for the workshops and how we might sequence explanation, interaction and expression of the key activities successfully.

Archaeology of SPC resources, review discoveries and publish reports.
it’s the heap : frame : stack motif proposed by Jonathan Kemp.

Some preparation has been done to pull together disparate media files from the many deckspace workstations and external hard disks plus the webservers that host a mass of video, image and audio data. Adnan Hadzi has already engineered a collaborative process for filmmakers at Deptford.tv which we can utilise to annotate, store files and author fresh compositions.

There is a growing range of web browser based playback systems available which we will make use of eg. http://montageinterdit.net/ (which has been constructed by Robert  Ochshorn also a research fellow of Lunueburg uni.)

Each report will detail the range of sources, selected files and size of the data sync.

We will author our own btsync install recipies for linux, windows and mac os users as we felt the available guides fall short in some respects.

Once we installed the available btsync software on desktop, laptop and portable devices we experimented to discover how best to operate the various options and to improve on communication of the p2p sharing concepts and implementation of btsync to date.
Print media to carry the nfc / qrcode that links to the report and associated media resources

Lets also identify case use for read only vs full access ie. server back up requires read only

scenario #1 mobile user wishing to sync library files
discover the URL to library description or send key to library email install btsync and subscribe to library

scenario #2 laptop user offers sync to local directory
we successfully synchronised mobile user (android)  using backup by sending the library an email with secret in. We also used sync to the library by scanning the qrcode.  both worked with mobile and wlan connection

scenario #3 we offered a read only sync folder on our server and syncronised between two laptops on our LAN and a mobile phone on 3G opterator. We also syncronised between 3 pc’s each able to add and remove files as well as reflecting updates with a full access.