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[[!date "2022-10-16"]]
[[!meta title="Captions, dry run, workflow improvements"]]

Hi everyone!

Here's what's been happening backstage.

- Speakers have been submitting their videos, hooray! I added a
  schedule to the backstage page at
  <https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/backstage/> so that people can see
  how the schedule's coming along. We expect more talks to come in the
  next two weeks. Not panicking yet. =)

- Thanks to all the people who've been working on captions so far!
  Bhavin, Andrea, and Ramin did the captions for their talks, and Jai
  captioned Bala's talk. Tom, Bhavin, and Hannah are currently working
  on captions. There are three more talks backstage if anyone wants to
  work on them.

- I just posted some notes on how I reflow and edit subtitles in case
  they're helpful:
  <https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/backstage/editing-captions.html>
  It's also linked from the backstage page under More info: editing
  captions.

- We added the Emacs development updates talk from John Wiegley and
  updated the times of other talks based on messages from the
  speakers.

- We did a dry run of the OBS streaming setup with Leo, Amin, and
  Corwin. I think we're on track to being able to broadcast two
  streams this year.

- IRC announcements, BBB redirection, and media file publishing can
  now all automatically happen when the talk status changes,
  simplifying our work during the conference. Video playback and Q&A
  browser windows can happen automatically if streaming from
  res.emacsconf.org. I want to get the publishing workflow all
  smoothed out too, so that talks and transcripts can be more easily
  published to the wiki pages during the conference.

Plans for this week:

- More videos and captions!
- I plan to work on talk page publishing so that it happens smoothly during the conference
- Leo's going to review the videos submitted so far and prepare intros for them
- Might be a good idea to reach out to speakers for tech checks and bios

EmacsConf is a little less than four weeks away. Stuff is happening!

Sacha