I am at the SF New Tech Meetup, I've got a webcam on my laptop, and I'm not afraid to use it. I'm trying out Veodia (preview) to stream the event.
Update: I had two dropped connections and crashes, and gave up on the streaming. Here is the archive of the first segment Veodia recorded:
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