OK, I'm late....
Yes, last Thursday was the kickoff of the Budget Committee season here in Gilford. Both Evans Juris and Deb Shackett did the overall presentation. While there are areas that will merit significant discussion, overall I was quite pleased that the overall proposed budget was less than last year's.
While the new Gilford Channel (CCTV of meetings and other goings ons in Gilford) is not quite ready, it soon will be. For me, that will be a great thing as being a working stiff, I cannot make it to the Selectmen meetings - but I can watch it on cable once and IF they do real time broadcasting (a ways away just yet).
Anyways, I'm doing some experimenting. Since we moved GraniteGrok and GilfordGrok (and our other web sites) from shared servers to a dedicated server at our hosting company (basically from our sites being on any server in their "farm" to one I could actually point to), we get to try some things.
One is that I tried some video/audio recording of pretty much most of the presentation with a decent webcam. Much of it is kinda run of the mill stuff - nothing earth shattering, nothing controversial. While the meeting was also taped with a camcorder, I decided just to see what might happen.
Well, look here for yourself. Audio is just OK. Video? Well, let's just say that nothing ventured, nothing gained (WARNING! It is 136MB in size - if your player does not start streaming it, it may take a while, based on your connection speed, to download). While it works fairly well for recording Meet The New Press, not so much for people standing further away. Oh well, time to look for something better.
Also, we may start live streaming at least the audio of the meeting sometime soon. Stay tuned!
