Volunteer update

1 files changed, 74 insertions, 40 deletions

diff --git a/2022/organizers-notebook.md b/2022/organizers-notebook.md
index 213baf9e..49e6da3d 100644
--- a/2022/organizers-notebook.md
+++ b/2022/organizers-notebook.md
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ This file is automatically exported from [/2022/organizers-notebook/index.org](/
 Time-sensitive tasks:
 
 -   [Send schedule-published email for emacsconf-discuss](#announce-program):needsowner:timesensitive:email:
--   [Write volunteer update 2022-10-23](#volunteer-2022-10-23):update:
 
 Other projects:
 
@@ -370,7 +369,6 @@ interests you!
 Ordered chronologically (and therefore by importance).
 
 -   [Send schedule-published email for emacsconf-discuss](#announce-program):needsowner:timesensitive:email:
--   [Write volunteer update 2022-10-23](#volunteer-2022-10-23):update:
 
 
 <a id="announce-program"></a>
@@ -422,31 +420,6 @@ emacsconf-discuss list, so as to help avoid generating extra off-topic
 chatter in the other lists cc&rsquo;d in this message; thank you.
 
 
-<a id="volunteer-2022-10-23"></a>
-
-## TODO Write volunteer update 2022-10-23     :update:
-
--   set up web-based upload, nudging speakers
--   Backstage area now open with three talks, info sent to speakers and captioning volunteers, jai sent in the first edited captions
--   created BBB rooms and added them to conf.org
--   dto signed up for shifts
--   playbook drafts
-    -   <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/irc>
-    -   <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/caption>
-    -   <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/pad>
-    -   <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/checkin>
-    -   <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/host>
--   tested streaming to gen and dev streams, viewing from watch pages
-
-requests:
-
--   html/css/js for watch pages
-
-next week:
-
--   caption workflow
-
-
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 # Projects and other long-running tasks
@@ -676,15 +649,12 @@ capitalization and punctuation, but it produces longer captions
 OpenAPI captions so that people can decide what they like.
 
 
-### TODO Investigate more granular timestamps for the output from OpenAPI Whisper
-
-<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73822353/how-can-i-get-word-level-timestamps-in-openais-whisper-asr>
-
-
-### TODO Compare large, medium, and small models
+### DONE Compare large, medium, and small models
 
 12 threads
 
+Original file: 21:16  21 minutes
+
 <table border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="groups" frame="hsides">
 
 
@@ -692,29 +662,54 @@ OpenAPI captions so that people can decide what they like.
 <col  class="org-left" />
 
 <col  class="org-right" />
+
+<col  class="org-right" />
+
+<col  class="org-left" />
 </colgroup>
 <tbody>
 <tr>
-<td class="org-left">Large</td>
-<td class="org-right">&#xa0;</td>
+<td class="org-left">&#xa0;</td>
+<td class="org-right">Hours</td>
+<td class="org-right">Mult</td>
+<td class="org-left">Notes</td>
+</tr>
+
+
+<tr>
+<td class="org-left"><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/backstage/emacsconf-2022-sqlite--using-sqlite-as-a-data-source-a-framework-and-an-example--andrew-hyatt--large.vtt">Large</a></td>
+<td class="org-right">2:49</td>
+<td class="org-right">8</td>
+<td class="org-left">&#xa0;</td>
 </tr>
 
 
 <tr>
-<td class="org-left">Medium</td>
+<td class="org-left"><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/backstage/emacsconf-2022-sqlite--using-sqlite-as-a-data-source-a-framework-and-an-example--andrew-hyatt--medium.vtt">Medium</a></td>
 <td class="org-right">2:03</td>
-<td class="org-left">Shorter subtitles</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.9</td>
+<td class="org-left">&#xa0;</td>
 </tr>
 
 
 <tr>
-<td class="org-left">Small</td>
+<td class="org-left"><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/backstage/emacsconf-2022-sqlite--using-sqlite-as-a-data-source-a-framework-and-an-example--andrew-hyatt--small.vtt">Small</a></td>
 <td class="org-right">0:40</td>
+<td class="org-right">2</td>
+<td class="org-left">More run-on sentences</td>
 </tr>
 </tbody>
 </table>
 
-Large and medium might do better on a system with a GPU
+Large and medium might do better on a system with a GPU. I&rsquo;ll default to the small model for now.
+
+
+### DONE Commit subed-tsv so that people can try a cleaner output
+
+
+### TODO Investigate more granular timestamps for the output from OpenAPI Whisper
+
+<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73822353/how-can-i-get-word-level-timestamps-in-openais-whisper-asr>
 
 
 ### DONE Upload srv2 from YouTube for word-level
@@ -2338,7 +2333,7 @@ Probably focus on grabbing the audio first and seeing what&rsquo;s worth keeping
 
 Make a table of the form
 
-<table id="org0b16b13" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="groups" frame="hsides">
+<table id="org10608d5" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="groups" frame="hsides">
 
 
 <colgroup>
@@ -3474,6 +3469,45 @@ should the captions be outside the wiki?
 -   SIL fonts choice
 
 
+<a id="volunteer-2022-10-23"></a>
+
+## DONE Write volunteer update 2022-10-23     :update:
+
+Hello, folks! Here&rsquo;s the weekly update on what&rsquo;s happening backstage
+for EmacsConf 2022 in case you notice something that you want to help
+out with. =)
+
+-   We&rsquo;ve e-mailed the speakers instructions for uploading their files through either a web browser or an FTP client, and three speakers have already done so! Those talks are now available in the backstage area (<https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/backstage/>), along with the first set of edited captions (thanks Jai Vetrivelan!). If you don&rsquo;t have the username and password for the backstage area and you would like to access it, please e-mail me and I&rsquo;ll send you the details.
+-   We&rsquo;ve created a BBB room for each speaker&rsquo;s live Q&A session. The URLs are in conf.org in the private repository if you need them.
+-   We&rsquo;ve drafted some documentation for different volunteer roles. If you&rsquo;d like to volunteer as a captioner, check-in person (hmm, reception?), Etherpad scribe, IRC monitor, or host, please check out the appropriate link and let me know if I need to add anything to the docs:
+    -   <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/caption>
+    -   <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/irc>
+    -   <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/pad>
+    -   <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/checkin>
+    -   <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/host>
+-   Thanks to David O&rsquo;Toole for signing up for some IRC shifts! If you would like to volunteer for a shift, check out <https://emacsconf.org/2022/organizers-notebook/#shifts> .
+-   We&rsquo;ve updated our streaming configuration for the General and Development tracks, and have started testing them using mpv and the watch pages. Videos aren&rsquo;t currently streaming, but you can check out the layout of the watch pages at:
+    
+    -   <https://emacsconf.org/2022/watch/gen/>
+    -   <https://live.emacsconf.org/2022/watch/gen/>
+    -   <https://emacsconf.org/2022/watch/dev/>
+    -   <https://live.emacsconf.org/2022/watch/dev/>
+    
+    These pages could probably be a lot prettier and easier to use. If you have some ideas for improving them or if you&rsquo;d like to work on the HTML/CSS/JS, we&rsquo;d love your help!
+-   There are now Q&A waiting rooms with friendly URLs so that it&rsquo;s easier for people to join the live Q&A when the host decides it&rsquo;s okay to let everyone in. They&rsquo;re linked on the watch pages (along with the pads) and they&rsquo;ll be linked from the talk pages once we&rsquo;re ready to share them.
+-   zaeph has been busy tweaking the ffmpeg workflow for reencoding and normalizing videos. Thanks to Ry P. for sharing the res.emacsconf.org server with us - we&rsquo;ve been using it for all the processing that our laptops can&rsquo;t handle.
+-   We experimented with using the OpenAI Whisper speech-to-text toolkit to create the auto-generated captions that captioning volunteers can edit. Looks promising! If you&rsquo;d like to compare the performance between small, medium, and large models, you can look at the VTT files for the sqlite talk in the backstage area. I&rsquo;ve also added support for tab-separated values (like Audacity label exports) and a subed-convert command to subed.el, which might give us a more concise format to work with. I&rsquo;ll work on getting word-level timing data so that our captioning workflow can be even easier.
+
+Next week, we hope to:
+
+-   improve the prerec and captioning workflows
+-   get more captions underway
+
+Lots of good stuff happening!
+
+Sacha Chua  
+
+
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 # Communications