Yesterday marked the official beginning of Wabash’s inauguration weekend for our 15th president, Patrick White. IT Services has been involved in a variety of ways in preparing for the weekend, from creating a custom web application for student RSVPs, to providing technical support for the Celebration of Student Research, to videotaping inauguration events.
From a technology standpoint, the highlight of the weekend will be a live broadcast-quality video feed of the inauguration ceremony from the Chapel to Hays Hall room 104. We’ll encode and digitally transmit the video signal across the campus network, and display the video in Hays using classroom projection systems. The full-screen, 30 frame-per-minute video is quite good, and I believe this system has application for other uses on campus.
For those who can’t come to Crawfordsville, a live audio Internet broadcast will be available of the inauguration ceremony.
IT involvement isn’t entirely behind the scenes, though. Kathy Tymoczko, senior systems analyst in our administrative computing group, stepped in front of the camera at Thursday night’s Celebrating the Arts at Wabash event, performing with the world music group Wamidan.
All of us in IT Services would like to join the Wabash community in officially welcoming Pat White to Wabash, and we look forward to working with him to take Wabash to even greater heights.
