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+[[!meta title="Conference-day instructions for speakers"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2021 Sacha Chua"]]
+
+# Before your talk
+
+Please check in at least 30 minutes before the start of your Q&A
+session if you have a prerecorded talk, or at least 60 minutes before
+the start of your talk if you are going to do it live. You can check
+in on IRC by joining the #emacsconf-org channel on libera.chat using
+your favorite IRC client or using
+[https://chat.emacsconf.org](https://chat.emacsconf.org/?join=emacsconf-org).
+If you want, you can also join the channel for your track as well
+(either #emacsconf-gen or #emacsconf-dev). Say something like "Hi,
+this is <your name> checking in" in the \#emacsconf-org channel
+and one of the organizers will check you in. If you are having a hard
+time with IRC, e-mail <emacsconf-submit@gnu.org> and we can give you
+the URL of a BigBlueButton room to join.
+
+- If you want to do Q&A over IRC or Etherpad:
+  - You can hang out in the IRC channel for your track and/or on the
+    pad for your talk.
+- If you want to do Q&A over Mumble:
+  - You can connect to mumble.emacsconf.org.
+- If you want to do Q&A in a BigBlueButton room (ex: quick demoes):
+  - We'll set you up in a BigBlueButton room (check your e-mail for
+    the URL, or ask in #emacsconf-org). You can keep watching the
+    conference or doing other things while waiting there. We'll let
+    you know shortly before your prerec ends. If you want, you can get
+    things ready for whatever you might want to demonstrate.
+  - Please use headphones or earphones to minimize the risk of audio
+    feedback. Webcams are optional.
+
+The schedule on your talk page is still tentative. Please check your
+talk page for updates, especially on the day of the talk. We've done
+some dry-runs, but just in case it turns out that running two tracks
+at the same time leaves us too frazzled, we may drop back to one track
+with Q&A on an alternate stream. We'll try our best to keep your talk
+in the same general timeslot (ex: Saturday morning, Saturday
+afternoon, Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon). If we need to do that,
+or if there are other big changes to your schedule on the day of your
+talk, you'll get an e-mail from us with a subject like "URGENT:
+EmacsConf 2022: ...".
+
+Please let us know if you're running late or if it turns out you can't
+make it. Drop by #emacsconf-org, e-mail us at
+<emacsconf-submit@gnu.org> , or use the emergency contact information
+from the check-in instructions email. If we start worrying, we'll
+reach out to you via your emergency contact information.
+
+# While your talk plays
+
+People will add notes and questions on the
+pad, or they'll ask them on IRC. Volunteers will try to copy all the
+questions to the pad. If you're on Etherpad or IRC, you
+can start answering whenever you like.
+
+# Answering questions
+
+- General notes about answering questions:
+  - You can answer questions in any order, and you can skip any questions you like.
+  - You don't have to answer questions right away. If you want to take
+    some time to think about things, that's okay.
+  - If you're answering questions by voice and the host is not reading
+    the questions out for you, please read the question out before you
+    answer it. This makes it easier to follow the conversation and to
+    copy the answers to the talk page afterwards.
+- After your prerec finishes:
+  - If you're doing IRC/Etherpad: we'll let people know where to ask
+    questions and we can read out some of the questions and answers
+    that are there.
+  - If you're on Mumble: we'll pull you into the channel room and the
+    streamer will connect to it. When we confirm that you can be
+    heard, you and the host can go ahead with the Q&A.
+  - If you're doing Q&A in a BBB room:
+    - We'll switch the stream to broadcast from the BBB room you're
+      in, and we'll start recording the session so that Q&A can be
+      available after the conference. We'll give you a signal when the
+      Q&A is ready to start.
+    - Depending on your preferences, the host can read questions to
+      you, or you can read questions off the pad/IRC yourself.
+    - We'll open up the Q&A for other people to join if there's time
+      for a longer discussion. If so, this conversation can continue
+      for as long as you like. If it's time for the next talk to
+      start, we'll give you a heads-up and your Q&A can continue off
+      the stream in the same BBB room. When you are ready to stop
+      answering questions, you can wrap up however you'd like and
+      leave the meeting.
+      
+# After the conference
+
+We'll collect questions and answers from IRC and the pad. We'll put
+them on the talk page and e-mail them to you in case you want to
+follow up or keep the conversation going. We'll also work on
+extracting the videos from the Q&A sessions and we'll post them on the
+talk page.
+
+Thank you so much for putting so much time and energy into sharing
+what you know at EmacsConf!