Hey,
I assumed there was an audio shoutcast for wineconf this year until I noticed this morning I had been reading the archives of 2004. I know, now this might be a bit too late to arrange. But let's try.
I have the experience in setting up an audio stream and the general knowledge about audio. But I do not have much portable equipment I can take with me at wineconf. I would mainly be needing a laptop with a _proper_ soundcard and a server doing the actual streaming.
What kind of sound system does the conference room have? Do we know specifics? If there is nothing available I can arrange some equipment. If there is equipment available our biggest problem will be getting the signal at the poor 3,5mm jack line-in connections of the laptop.
The laptop would need a distro (duh) with basically just ALSA. And a soundcard that can do hardware mixing (multiple local playback streams at once).
You can have nice sound at 56kbit/s mp3. So somewhere around a 5mbit connection should be enough for 100 listeners at the stream server (you don't want to do that on the laptop, connections eat memory).
What do you all think? Paul