The Freeseer project is a powerful software suite for capturing video. It enables you to capture great presentations, demos, training material, and other videos. It handles desktop screen-casting with ease. It is one of a few such tools that can also record vga output. It is particularly good at handling large conferences with hundreds of talks. Freeseer can run on a laptop with commodity hardware such as a web cam, camcorder, or vga capture device. The resulting system fits easily into a laptop and can be assembled in under 10 minutes to record any number of presentations/demos/talks.
Freeseer is implemented in Python, uses Qt for its GUI, and quite approachable and easy to learn the code base given it's clear structure and reasonable size (17K lines of code). One can make a significant contribution to Freeseer, perhaps more than many other open source projects.
Freeseer is the best software available for recording large conferences. We have put a lot of thought and automation into work flow to