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+[[!meta title="Captions, tech checks, intros, OBS"]]
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+Hello, everyone! Here's the weekly update on what's happening backstage
+for EmacsConf 2022 in case you notice something that you want to help
+out with. =)
+
+- Help wanted - Captioning: There are three talks open for captioning
+  in <https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/backstage/> , so feel free to
+  e-mail me if you'd like to reserve one. I've tweaked the captioning
+  process a little bit so that I can reflow the transcripts into
+  shorter subtitles before people edit the captions, so editing is
+  easier to do because you don't have to split along the way. (If
+  you're curious about the technical stuff, I switched to manually
+  splitting the text using emacsconf-reflow from emacsconf-el and then
+  the using aeneas for forced alignment, because I couldn't figure out
+  how to get torchaudio unstuck sometimes.)
+
+  If you don't have the username and password for the backstage area
+  and you would like to access it, please e-mail me and I'll send you
+  the details.
+
+- Help wanted - tech checks: For sessions with live Q&A, we'd like to
+  set up tech-checks with speakers to make sure that their setup works
+  well with BigBlueButton. A rough outline of the process is in the
+  tech-checking protocol heading at
+  <https://emacsconf.org/2022/organizers-notebook/#tech-checks> . If you
+  would like to help with tech-checks, please e-mail us with your
+  general availability (including timezones) and preferred public
+  contact information so that we can include you on the list at
+  <https://emacsconf.org/2022/prepare/#tech-check> and in the e-mail to
+  speakers.
+
+- Help wanted - intro/intermission slides, OBS overlay, ??: It might
+  be interesting to design something to show right before and right
+  after a talk so that people can see the title, speaker name, talk
+  page URL, Q&A info, pad URL, pronouns, etc. Ideally we'd be able to
+  generate a whole bunch of these from the talk data, so maybe SVG or
+  a TikZ picture? If this is your jam, let us know.
+  
+- OBS in the cloud: We've been able to figure out how to stream both
+  streams using OBS, VNC, and PulseAudio on Ry P.'s virtual server, so
+  it's even more likely that we're going to pull off two tracks this
+  year. Yay!
+
+- Tom Purl has joined as a captioning volunteer. Hi Tom!
+
+This week we hope to get lots of talks submitted, processed, and on
+the way to being captioned. We're also planning to make the captioning
+workflow even better, and to improve the OBS streaming workflow. Whee!
+
+Sacha <sacha@sachachua.com>