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+[[!meta title="Notes and tips on preparing your talk"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2019, 2020 Amin Bandali"]]
+
+This page contains notes and tips for our speakers on preparing their
+talks and presentations.  Please read through the list and consider it
+while preparing your talk.  If you have any questions, concerns, or
+suggestions please feel free to write to one of the organizers
+directly (e.g. <bandali@gnu.org>), or write to one our organizational
+mailing lists: the public <emacsconf-org@gnu.org> list, or the private
+<emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org> list, depending on the nature of the
+matter you would like to discuss.
+
+Note: being part of a wiki, this page is subject to change (including
+by you!); so please check back every now and again for any changes and
+updates.
+
+### Code of conduct
+
+First and foremost, we ask that you review our [[code of
+conduct|conduct]] when preparing your talk, to make sure we're all on
+the same page and strive to make the event a great experience for all.
+We would be happy to chat with you if you are unsure whether your talk
+or presentation style meets the guidelines laid out in the code of
+conduct.  You can email Sacha Chua at <sacha@sachachua.com> to chat
+more about this.
+
+### Prerecording talks
+
+For EmacsConf 2020, much like the last EmacsConf, we highly encourage
+and ask you to please consider prererecording your talk(s),
+*especially* for lightning talks, where the allotted time is quite
+limited and any potential technical issues that cannot be resolved
+quickly will greatly detract from the presentation.
+
+Please send us your prerecording(s) preferably by **November 14** (two
+weeks before the conference), or by **November 21** (one week before
+the conference) *the latest*, to allow us enough time to do any needed
+processing (e.g. format or codec conversion) in preparation for the
+event.
+
+Please **send your prerecording(s) via email to <bandali@gnu.org>**,
+either in form of attachments (if reasonably small), or direct link(s)
+to download from elsewhere.  If you need assistance with this, please
+write to <bandali@gnu.org> about it.
+
+To make prerecordings, you could use any of the following pieces of
+free software, depending on your needs:
+
+- [OBS](//obsproject.com)
+- [SimpleScreenRecorder](//www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/)
+- [vokoscreenNG](//linuxecke.volkoh.de/vokoscreen/vokoscreen.html)
+- [peek](//github.com/phw/peek)
+- [ffmpeg](//trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop)
+
+You might find the following free software programs useful for editing
+your video recordings:
+
+- [Kdenlive](//kdenlive.org/en/)
+- [Blender](//www.blender.org)
+- [Pitivi](http://www.pitivi.org)
+
+You can see more related tips from last year's [[**tips**|2019/tips]]
+page.
+
+Per GNU Project's [Guide to
+Formats](//audio-video.gnu.org/docs/formatguide.html), we prefer to
+receive prerecorded videos in formats unencumbered by software
+patents, such as `video/webm` (WebM-encoded video files, with `.webm`
+file extension) and `video/ogg` (video files encoded with the Theora
+video codec, encapsulated in an Ogg transport layer, with `.ogg` or
+`.ogv` file extension).
+
+However, if for one reason or another you're unable to send us your
+prerecorded video in one of the above formats, you may submit them in
+other common formats, like MPEG-4 (`.mp4`), and we will try to convert
+them to our preferred formats on your behalf.
+
+### Office hours for video call tech-checks
+
+For EmacsConf 2020 live talks/sessions, we are evaluating a number of
+free software video-calling/conferencing tools, namely BigBlueButton,
+Jitsi Meet, and GNU Jami for the video calls with speakers delivering
+live presentations.
+
+We ask that speakers who choose not to submit a prerecording and/or
+would like to give a live presentation to schedule a short tech-check
+with us in the weeks leading to the conference, in order to quickly
+check their ability for joining video calls and performing common
+tasks such as sharing their screen.  The office hours will likely be
+on Saturdays or Sundays, but we would be happy to try and work out
+another time if that doesn’t work for a speaker.
+
+To schedule a short tech-check, email one of the people on this list:
+
+- Your Name <<your@email>>
+- Amin Bandali <<bandali@gnu.org>>
+
+If you'd like to help out with the tech-checks, feel free to add your
+name and email to the above list and email <bandali@gnu.org> to plan
+the logistics.