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# Ongoing projects

-   Subtitles/transcripts: sachac, bhavin192
-   FOSSHost: mplsCorwin
-   Calendar, connecting with meetups: sachac
-   Streaming infrastructure for meetups?: bandali, sachac
-   Amin and Gopar's podcast: bandali, gopar
-   mplsCorwin's livestreaming project, working on trimming
-   Writing about Emacs: zaeph


# January 7, 2020 meeting

-   Checking in:
    -   bandali, zaeph, gopar, sachac, dto
    -   bandali: fairly uneventful, things are going okay, learning more about Jami, experimenting with DSLR for webcam but aspect ratio is a little weird
    -   sachac: virtual school started again; EmacsNYC meetup; emacs calendar in HTML and Org
    -   dto: having fun with neural networks
    -   zaeph: at his parents, can't do much work, enjoying the lull; figuring out collaborative slipboxing with org-roam; getting more into writing
    -   gopar
-   Agenda:
    -   Update: emacslife.com/calendar
    -   Update: attended NYC meetup
    -   methodology
    -   bandali
        -   met with organizers of EmacsNYC. They were curious about BBB and Jitsi, streaming, IRC web client
        -   met with gopar last night re: podcast
    -   CRDT: see BBB chat if you want to try it
    -   dto:
        -   tutorial; (also, SystemCrafters just livestreamed an Emacs Lisp tutorial too)
        -   Hmm, it's like having lab hours
            -   Could be open (office hours, bring your questions; maybe a liiittle structure) or guided (here's an exercise to start with)
        -   podcast
        -   Upcoming workshops
        -   BBB has breakout rooms, might be worth looking into if it scales up a lot; Jitsi can have multiple people sharing screens at the same time;
        -   EmacsNYC said Jitsi is okay for the 20-30 people they've seen so far; EmacsBerlin said the same too (I think they self-host; want to see how they're doing it?). Sounds like it's much better now than it was last year
        -   dto will figure it out and write things up =)
    -   bhavin192: Mailing list for meetups (some common prefix or something similar).
    -   bhavin192: Update to Code of Conduct (I was hoping to use the same text or page for Emacs APAC meetup)
    -   gopar: upcoming podcast recording re: EmacsConf experience
    -


# January 2, 2020 meeting

-   Conversations
    -   mplsCorwin: FOSSHost: okay to experiment with being a CDN, will
        experiment with videos
        -   authenticated RTMP server to support streaming meetups from Jitsi?
        -   PeerTube?
    -   sachac: added more events to
        <https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Usergroups> and the calendar
    -   sachac: subed.el patches for splitting and merging subtitles, will
        continue editing subtitles
    -   Podcast:
        -   Thinking about name: 
            -   Current: emacs.el podcast
            -   Emacs Weekly? Probably okay, although includes commitment to
                actually make it weekly
            -   Amin and Gopar's Wild World of Emacs?
        -   ideas for making it visually interesting when there's no video
        -   Suggested guest: Fermin - interesting story about how he got into
            Emacs and started making it better for PHP
    -   Making these conversations more public:
        -   Maybe start with just putting public meeting minutes somewhere,
            like the wiki, and then figure out if anyone actually wants to
            subscribe to it =)
            -   E-mail summary to mailing list?
            -   <https://emacsconf.org/2020/meetings/> announced on IRC
                \#emacsconf
            -   With long-form summary at some point?
            -   dto volunteering to help Leo (it turns out dto was also an
                English major in his past life, and has done a fair bit of
                copyediting)
            -   mplsCorwin can handle social media
            -   bandali: avoid perfectionism
                -   Lots of people have a hard time with this
                -   getting things out of your head = good
                -   don't let the great be the enemy of the good. Take advantage
                    of the friendly community.
                -   dto: story about local trails committee, which is kind of like
                    this
                -   Look, we can just post a rough outline, whee! =)
                -   bullet-points are fine as a starting point
        -   Segments of recording? Timer in the pad can help. 
        -   Livestream with delay?
            -   Something to grow into, maybe; let's start with text and
                possibly recording segments
        -   Maybe private part and then public part, with time notes in case
            there are things we need to remove from the recording, keeping
            private segment as short as possible
            -   Everyone's cool with this
            -   Discussed: Separate days for private and public meeting? Might
                take too much time. 
        -   Guidelines for private segments: document reasons if possible
            -   Confidentiality
            -   Buzz factor: vet ideas before unleashing them? preview?
        -   Figuring out the persona/voice/feeling for EmacsConf, for the
            meeting
            -   Hard to figure out how to communicate both excitement and
                reserve
            -   Diversity and perspective: we're trying to figure out how this
                comes across from the outside, without our own knowledge
            -   sachac: We could try to just dump the outline for starters, and
                can come up with quick automation for transforming the Etherpad
                =)
            -   Is it because we're trying to figure out the official voice for
                EmacsConf? Is it easier to talk as individuals?
    -   Sticker giveaway: mplsCorwin
-   Next week, 3PM UTC Saturday, Leo to send calendar invite and/or e-mail:
    -   Leo will write a summary of what we've been doing and put it in the
        pad, for e-mailing out?
    -   Braindumps welcome =)
    -   Week after: public meeting/recording