More information about SamePage: http://www.samepagemusic.com/

Also Demo of ETC FIRE and ICE line of LED fixtures.

More information about the Aug 27th Fellowship:

http://austintech.org/2010/08/aug-27th-at-life-springs/

Details For Meeting:

Friday, August 27th, 7pm (mark your calendars now)

hosted by (meeting at):

Life Springs

15611 Highway 29, Liberty Hill, TX 78764

Map and Directions

http://life-springs.org/

4.2 miles west of the Highway 29 and Highway 183 intersection in Liberty Hill.

45 minutes from central Austin, 30 from Round Rock / Northwest Austin

From Georgetown / Round Rock, take 29 west past 183.  From Austin, take 183 north, turn left on Highway 29.

What is on the Schedule:

Ministry overview- Audio / Video / Lighting for mid sized venues – SamePage electronic music stands, HD video system with facility wide video over IP distribution, PTZ remote controlled cameras, etc.  Lots of cool technology for a church on a budget!

Facility tour - We’ll tour the worship center, control room and get a peak at the other areas in the facility using technology.

Q&A Time – Every session is based around what you want to know, so bring your questions and be ready to help answer questions others might have.  Questions about how Life Springs “does church” can be explored during the facility and ministry tours, as well as questions you might have about how others are meeting the challenges your ministry is facing.

Fellowship – meet your peers from other area churches.

PLEASE RSVP if possible to let us know what areas are of most interest to you, and so we can be prepared for how many people will be at the fellowship.

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/802884449

–  select the RSVP ticket above (preferred) or email jeff@soundbooth.org or txt 512.203.2314

When you show up at Life Springs, pull around to the main enterence in back and meet us in the fellowship hall.

About austinTech.org:

We are a loosely organized group of Church Technical people from churches all over central Texas who meet several times a year to help each other out, share ideas and get to know others who do what you do. This is a great place for church tech staff and volunteers, from all levels and backgrounds, to gather and share what they know and to learn how they can go the next step in their ministry. We only grow if you will reach out and invite someone! If you know of someone in the technical ministries at another church, don’t assume they already know about this meeting! Get a hold of them and bring them with you!
Over the years this group has blessed many church media & tech volunteers and helped improve their ministry through learning, encouragement and ideas. To facilitate this:
•    Meetings / fellowships will be held every month on the last THURSDAY or FRIDAY of the month.
•    We will incorporate more training and new product sessions into every meeting where possible or practical.  We will be inviting manufacturers and reps to show us equipment and tools that we can use in our ministries, offer training sessions thru manufacturers and outside consultants, trainers and media ministry leaders.
•    We will only have church facility tours at some of the meetings,  other meetings will be much more focused on training and equipment.
•    Will will try to have something for everyone covering as many areas of church media and technology as possible – Audio / Video / Lighting / Projection as well as graphic arts and other areas.
Watch for more emails about these events – if you haven’t already, make sure your email address is registered at austinTech.org (sign up for the email list), tell others who might be interested about these meetings (go ahead, forward them this email right now!) and mark your calendar now and plan on attending.

Sponsored by:

Essentric Audio Producitons:
www.essentricaudio.com

Stark Raving Solutions:
www.starkravingsolutions.com

Here are the forms he promised us:
Breakdown Sheet for Video Shoots
Video Field Equipment Checklist
Video_Audio Release Authorization
Video Shot List
Pre-Productions Needs Checklist
Storyboard Template

If we missed any forms that you would like to see you can email Melissa or Matt.

Our next scheduled fellowship will be at Life Springs Church on Friday, August 27th.

Anyone want to host a gathering in July? Either Thursday, July 29 or Friday, July 30? Contact us here.

Friday, June 25th, 7pm (yes, all those who “can’t make it on a Thursday, this one is for you! mark your calendars now)

hosted by (meeting at):

Celebration Church

1202 County Road 116, Georgetown, TX 78626

Map and Directions

http://www.celebrationchurchtx.com/

RSVP HERE!

What is on the Schedule:

Ministry overview- Multiple worship venues, multiple facilities – high tech stage, virtual pastor video venues and lots of production keep this team busy.

Facility tour - Absolutely we’ll tour the worship center, sanctuary, control room.  Awesome production suite and lots of cool use of technology

Audio / Video / Stage Lighting breakout groups – depending on the number of people who are here, we will try to break out into area specific groups..

Q&A; Time – Every session is based around what you want to know, so bring your questions and be ready to help answer questions others might have.  Questions about how Celebration “does church” can be explored during the facility and ministry tours, as well as questions you might have about how others are meeting the challenges your ministry is facing.

Fellowship – meet your peers from other area churches.

PLEASE RSVP if possible to let us know what areas are of most interest to you, and so we can be prepared for how many people will be at the fellowship.  –  select the RSVP ticket above (preferred) or email jeff@soundbooth.org or txt 512.203.2314

When you show up at Celebration church, look for the signs to guide you to where we will be meeting.

About austinTech.org:

We are a loosely organized group of Church Technical people from churches all over central Texas who meet several times a year to help each other out, share ideas and get to know others who do what you do. This is a great place for church tech staff and volunteers, from all levels and backgrounds, to gather and share what they know and to learn how they can go the next step in their ministry. We only grow if you will reach out and invite someone! If you know of someone in the technical ministries at another church, don’t assume they already know about this meeting! Get a hold of them and bring them with you!
Over the years this group has blessed many church media & tech volunteers and helped improve their ministry through learning, encouragement and ideas. To facilitate this:
•    Meetings / fellowships will be held every month on the last THURSDAY or FRIDAY of the month.
•    We will incorporate more training and new product sessions into every meeting where possible or practical.  We will be inviting manufacturers and reps to show us equipment and tools that we can use in our ministries, offer training sessions thru manufacturers and outside consultants, trainers and media ministry leaders.
•    We will only have church facility tours at some of the meetings,  other meetings will be much more focused on training and equipment.
•    Will will try to have something for everyone covering as many areas of church media and technology as possible – Audio / Video / Lighting / Projection as well as graphic arts and other areas.
Watch for more emails about these events – if you haven’t already, make sure your email address is registered at austinTech.org (sign up for the email list), tell others who might be interested about these meetings (go ahead, forward them this email right now!) and mark your calendar now and plan on attending.

Sponsored by:

Essentric Audio Producitons
:
www.essentricaudio.com

Stark Raving Solutions:
www.starkravingsolutions.com

7:00 – 9:00pm

Join us for fellowship, facility tour and Q & A.

FRIDAY, 7pm, May 28th, 2010 at Hill Country Bible Church NW

Facility Tour and Ministry Overview
- Multiple auditoriums and A/V spaces
- Sanctuary
- IMAG / Projection
- Digital Audio Console

Q&A and Fellowship

Details and RSVP HERE:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/697729929

Friday, May 28, 7pm (yes, all those who “can’t make it on a Thursday, this one is for you!  mark your calendars now)

hosted by (meeting at):
Hill Country Bible Church NW
12124 RR 620 North,
Austin, TX 78750
www.hcbc.com

April Fellowship

Thursday, 7pm, April 29th, 2010 at Promiseland Church

Facility Tour and Ministry Overview
- Recording Studio
- Sanctuary
- Theater
- Audio and Video Control Rooms

Q&A and Fellowship

Details and RSVP HERE:

http://aprilpomiseland.eventbrite.com

Sennheiser K-Array Demo / Seminar

Any austinTechie who is interested is invited to attend the seminar and demonstration of the K-Array system of loudspeakers at Promiseland Church on Thursday, April 22, 11am – 3pm. For more information and to register go to www.sennheiserusa.com/seminars or download the brochure HERE.

How Can you Help?

1) Forward this email / blog post to others who might not know about austinTech.org but would be interested or could use the information. This includes everyone on your team, people you know in other ministries and teams from other churches. austinTech.org only grows by each of you inviting others to join in and participate.

2) Participate in the discussions online (in the Forums and on Facebook) – Help others out and get your questions answered.

3) Link to the austinTech.org home page from your ministries websites and from your blogs, follow us on twitter @austintechorg

4) Is your ministry having a workshop or event that you would like to open up to all austinTechs? Email and we can add the event to our calendar and / or post information as appropriate.

5) Interested in hosting a meeting at your church? Teaching a training session? Email for details (Jeff@soundbooth.org) or use the contact form on this site.

April Fellowship

Thursday, 7pm, April 29th, 2010 at Promiseland Church

Facility Tour and Ministry Overview
- Recording Studio
- Sanctuary
- Theater
- Audio and Video Control Rooms

Q&A and Fellowship

Details and RSVP HERE:

http://aprilpomiseland.eventbrite.com

Sennheiser K-Array Demo / Seminar

Any austinTechie who is interested is invited to attend the seminar and demonstration of the K-Array system of loudspeakers at Promiseland Church on Thursday, April 22, 11am – 3pm.  For more information and to register go to www.sennheiserusa.com/seminars or download the brochure HERE.

Photos Needed!

If you have any photos from any of our previous fellowships, please feel free to upload them to our facebook group or send them to jeff@austintech.org and I will upload them on the website.

Host Church Needed!

The schedule is complete for most of the year but we still have a couple holes we need to fill:

July 29th or 30th and August 26th or 27th

If your church would like to host or if you know of a church that SHOULD host, let us know.  You can always check and see what is on the schedule on the calendar at austinTech.org

Details For Meeting:

Thursday, March 25, 7pm (mark your calendars now)

2 different tracks, two different locations:

Video Production: Making the most out of your special productions.

the video production track will be at: Omega Broadcast Group, 817 West Howard Lane, Austin, Texas 78753, www.omegabroadcast.com

Audio Demo:  We will have a Midas digital audio console demo and we are working on a couple other audio demo units.

the audio demo will be at: Shoreline Church – 15201 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX 78728, www.shoreline.net

BOTH SESSIONS WILL BEGIN AT 7PM

PLEASE RSVP if possible to let us know which session you will be attending so we can be prepared for how many people will be at each one.  –  (pick the easiest method below)
select the RSVP ticket below
RSVP on the “austin techs” page on Facebook or:
twitter: @austintechorg
email: jeff@austintech.org
txt: 512.203.2314

Watch for more emails about these events – if you haven’t already, make sure your email address is registered at austinTech.org (sign up for the email list), tell others who might be interested about these meetings (go ahead, forward them this email right now!) and mark your calendar now and plan on attending.

Need More info about austinTech.org? Click HERE

Sponsored by:

Essentric Audio Productions
:
www.essentricaudio.com

Omega Broadcast Group
www.omegabroadcast.com

Stark Raving Solutions:
www.starkravingsolutions.com

Then they fired up all their auditorium systems and showed their video announcements and music videos. One of their musicians played and sang for us. The light show was outstanding.

David led us on a tour of their facilities: the auditorium, the control room, backstage and the kids’ rooms. The fellowship and food was, as always, wonderful. We had 43 people in attendance from 19 area churches.

Our next gathering is March 25th at Omega Broadcast emphasizing supporting larger productions and services such as Easter. It will include and audio session, video session, and stage lighting session. Watch the website for more info as we finalize details for this meeting.

More Pictures from the February Meeting available HERE and HERE