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 :CUSTOM_ID: ongoing-projects
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+- Tech
+  - Figuring out a better streaming workflow (speakers & OBS)
+  - CDN with Nate Saltes: mplsCorwin, bandali
+  - Review whether we need FH’s BBB instance: mplsCorwin & bandali
+
 - Subtitles/transcripts: sachac, bhavin192
 - Calendar, connecting with meetups: sachac
 - Streaming infrastructure for meetups?: bandali, sachac
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 - Diversity outreach: gopar, sachac, zaeph
 - Finding a parallel monthly day for EmacsConf prep meetings
   - Write-up for streaming with FLOSS
-- Review whether we need FH’s BBB instance: mplsCorwin & bandali
 - Mediation project between MELPA and org-mode’s core: zaeph
 
 * February 27, 2021 meeting
-- bandali might have a version of the podcast that we could review
-  - One of the episodes
-    - 1: EmacsConf: how it went generally (not the actual title)
-    - 2: ERG
-    - 3: Maxima with Fermin
-    - The order is still unclear, but the three episodes are recorded
-- bandali is planning to have some time to ivnest into writing the guide on streaming with FLOSS (but *no pressure*!! ಠ_ಠ)
-- Tentative agenda
-  - zaeph: Kickstarter for MELPA/core org-mode
-    - Especially to get sachac’s opinion
+- Agenda
+
+  - Check-in
+
+  - Follow-ups from last week
+    - Podcast update
+      - bandali said he might have a version of the podcast that we could review
+        - bandali is almost done with editing the first episode
+          - Some re-recording might be warranted for the start and the end
+          - He’s aiming for a preview version by [2021-02-28 Sun]
+        - The editing workflow has been figured out, and gopar might be able to handle the editing for episode 2
+        - Release plan
+          - Order
+            - 1: EmacsConf
+            - 2: Maxima with Fermin
+            - 3: ERC
+          - Tentative agenda
+            - [2021-02-28 Sun] 1st episode for us to review (no pressure!)
+          - Tentative schedule
+            - Tue or Wed if we’re not worried about the intro music
+        - We do not have an intro song yet
+          - In January, bandali talked with shoshin in the #emsig channel for commissioning an intro, but shoshin didn’t have much time to work on this because of work
+            - TODO Maybe we could try pinging him again?
+          - Could we put out a call for people to submit their intro?
+            - Reddit
+              - No news segment for the two first one
+        - We still don’t have an intro song
+          - TODO Find an intro song
+
+      - Future topics
+        - bandali & gopar: They could invite zaeph to talk about the crowdfunding or any related projects
+        - So far, no proper agenda for the guests, but something that we might figure out in the coming weeks
+          - TODO Try to come up with a list of people to get on the show
+        - EmacsConf’s FLOSS streaming facility
+
+  - bandali updates
+
+    - In March, bandali might have more time on his hands, and he might have time to prepare his presentation for LibrePlanet
+      - (date of the talk: [2021-03-20 Sat], deadline for submitting the slides: [2021-03-08 Mon])
+
+    - Nice progress on Jami, and Amin might be done within 2 weeks
+
+    - bandali is planning to have some time to invest into writing the guide on streaming with FLOSS
+      - Some progress has been made, but it’s been mostly ad-hoc with the people who asked
+      - Tentative date for a rough draft: [2021-03-27 Sat]
+      - Tentative date for a release: mid-April (but again, no pressure! ಠ_ಠ)
+
+  - Negative feedback on the quality of one of the recordings
+    - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o1qwAjleGk][EmacsConf 2020 - 12 - One Big-ass Org File or multiple tiny ones? - Leo Vivier - YouTube]]
+    - The stream resolution is 720p with an external monitor to avoid rescaling the video
+    - One of the bottlenecks with the previous EmacsConf was the rescaling
+      - Setup: Laptop 720p + Streaming to 1080p
+    - This year, it looked nicer
+    - bandali does not think he’s got enough computing power to handle 1080p
+      - 2 days of 1080p streaming might be too much for bandali’s unit (understandably)
+    - Questions
+      - Do we agree that the quality was sub-par, for this talk or for others as well?
+        - bandali: Probably ‘yes’, and we knew it going into it; this is one of the reasons why we encouraged pre-recordings
+          - The pre-recordings had good quality (streamed at 720p, but published at the native resolution, which was up to 2k)
+          - It was very readable, and there wasn’t a time when bandali couldn’t read what was on the screen
+          - The shared video with BBB sometimes was subpar
+        - The problem 
+    - Ways to solve the problem
+      - Composing the window maximally with OBS
+      - mplsCorwin: Using OBS and asking the speakers to stream to a URL that we’d provide to them; it’s EZPZ.
+        - Corwin has had real success with OBS, so that all his kids can have OBS running, and Corwin can bounce them via nginx
+      - TODO Let’s figure out an OBS-based workflow for webcam/screen feeds
+      - Having multiple tracks for speakers
+        - Offline talks
+          - Pre-recs
+        - Live talks
+          - Easy
+            - BBB
+          - Intermediate
+            - OBS & streaming to address
+
+  - FH’s BBB sitrep
+    - zaeph: No news from EmacsSF, so I’ll assume it’s next week; which also means that we’ve got no data
+    - At least
+
   - CDN for the videos
-    - yang@freenode told us they could provide hosting in France and Germany
-    - This would help us address the slow DL for EU viewers
-    - bandali is investigating FLOSS CDN options
-  - Podcast update
-  - FH review based on EmacsSF
+    - We got an offer for EU-based hosting (France & Germany)
+      - yang@freenode
+      - This would help us address the slow DL for EU viewers
+      - bandali is investigating FLOSS CDN options
+      - mplsCorwin: Definitely an offer we should take them up on
+    - Can we deploy a FLOSS CDN to handle those different servers?
+      - FH has a partnership with PacketFrame
+        - FLOSS CDN app, developed by Nate Sales; Corwin did some work with them on an org-inspired, lambda-based workflow; PoC underway
+      - CDN for video content is a bit of a weird usecase
+        - Optimisation is definitely done within routing-layer: ‘IP address, and network addresses which are specifically create subnets for delivery; beyond that, it’s just the usual caching thing’
+      - Could we get Nate Sales on board to help us with this topic?
+        - Let’s try to do it on the [2021-03-13 Sat], or any time during the following week
+        - mplsCorwin is sending them a note and will keep us in touch
+
+  - zaeph: EmacsBerlin update
+    - They might be interested in a BBB instance
+    - Michael Albinus (maint of TRAMP) is interested in working with me on advanced optimisation (for org-roam and org-mode)
+
   - Mailing list
     - bandali will ping bhavin192 for which email they want
-  - Negative feedback on the quality for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o1qwAjleGk][(120) EmacsConf 2020 - 12 - One Big-ass Org File or multiple tiny ones? - Leo Vivier - YouTube]]
+      - He didn’t have the time to do it yet; the TZ aren’t nice.
+    - Any other news?
+
+  - ERG update
+    - Today, weare meeting with Mark Dawson from ~M-x Research~
+
+  - zaeph’s crowfunding
+    - sitrep
+    - Discussion
+      - On funding for the dev of Emacs’s core
+        - RMS might have made a comment that financing Emacs should be done with FLOSS tools (e.g. non-free JS)
+        - [[https://en.liberapay.com/][Liberapay]] might be a solution
+      - mplsCorwin: ‘The fact that we have multiple string-manipulation librairies is a sign of sickness in the community’
+        - Related to Perl and CPAN
+
+  - FSF sponsorship
+    - zaeph: No update
 
 * February 20, 2021 meeting