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diff --git a/2021/meetings.org b/2021/meetings.org index 2762be5a..68c0ee91 100644 --- a/2021/meetings.org +++ b/2021/meetings.org @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ - Tech - Figuring out a better streaming workflow (speakers & OBS) - CDN with Nate Sales: mplsCorwin, bandali - - Stand-by until late-April + - Stand-by for now + - Separate from Fosshost - Documenting our infrastructure - bandali and gopar's podcast: bandali, gopar @@ -96,6 +97,8 @@ - EmacsVerse - Vet Mailman and exim instance for usergroups: bandali + - Figure out the interactions between (potential) emacsverse.org and emacs.org + - It’s about control domains and sources of truth - Misc - Writing about Emacs: zaeph @@ -107,6 +110,154 @@ *** Email speaker - Push speakers to add talk links, homepage/social & sponsoring links on their page (ideally could have been done with our first "please edit your talk page" email) +* November 6, 2021 +- TODOs: + - Everyone: + - Get working on contribute.md by Tue-Wed + - Non-exhaustive list of tasks to mention (relevant for this year): + 1. Editing captions or writing new ones + 2. Helping with tech-checks + 3. Looking at the schedule, and if there’s something they particularly like, they could run get ready for a prolonged Q&A session + - bandali: + - ASAP: Give SSH access to sachac on ftp-upload@emacsconf.org + - Ping corwin to get another distro installed on vm02 (possibly Trisquel or Alpine) + - Look into making TLS/SSL optional + - sachac: Right now, the configuration for the ftp server forces it. + - Fosshost: Drop an application for another storage-server for the prerecs + - zaeph: + - ASAP: Email designated volunteers + - Create BBB accounts for new tech-checkers + - Publicise contribe.md on r/emacs when it’s published + - Make a pinned comment on the program announcement asking for volunteers, linking to contribute.md, and maybe keeping it up to date by editing it to reflect current needs + - corwin: + - Record a 6-second video ad + - Go through the script together + +* October 30, 2021 meeting + +- Check-ins + - sachac: + - Using Emacs itself to record her talk, and has even managed to get a spectrum analyser right into it! + - [[https://github.com/sachac/subed-waveform][sachac/subed-waveform: Minor mode for displaying the waveform for the current subtitle in an Emacs subed-mode buffer]] + - bandali: + - Busy with the emails and around GNU in general + - Almost finished with a paper building on parts of his MA dissertation + - Last week’s presentation went well despite some minor hiccups + - It was a *long* session, so a 5-min break can be glossed over + - zaeph: + - All is well! A lot of swimming and fun experimentations! + - corwin: + - Pretty rested! + - Lots of stuff brewing with Fosshost + +- FTP: + - sachac: Where can I find the recordings? + - If we get talks early, we might get started on the subtitling + - bandali: Tried to setup the 2nd upload server + - Couldn’t get it to work; the same configuration on front0 for testing was working, but not onl + - The FSF sysadmins gave us access to a session/server which we might use as replacement + - sachac: Where can we keep the talks on front0? + - Reasoning: + - Last year, one of the issue that th epeople who had missed a talk wished they could have watched it + - Whilst the prerec is playing on the stream, we could put in a public directory to be able to watch it + - It’d be amazing if we could get the recordings ASAP this year, since most of them will be prerecs + - People need to be uploading files to the very server that we will be storing them on. + - Discussion: + - bandali: The main VMs that we have (live0 and front0) are fairly small, 20-25GB each. What we’ve been doing for the past couple EmacsConf has been to upload to a server provided Computer Science of the University of Waterloo + - Options: + - Fosshost + - corwin: Disk-space comes super-cheap to Fosshost, which means that it might be a good option. + - Could become our primary source (vs. CS Club which we use currently) + - CS Club (University of Waterloo); we might not have it eternally + - At the moment, it is our primary source + - We can still use it as a mirror + - audio-video.gnu.org (FSF) + - yang’s 2 mirrors in Europe + - Other options that we might consider for other editions: + - Justification: + - corwin: The footprint of EmacsConf will always grow as long as we maintain older publications for posterity, even if the grow is fairly linear. + - Linode block storage + - 1$/month for 10 GB + - corwin’s favourite provider + - Meta: + - Having 3 ISP is better than having 2 + - From a growth perspective, it’s good to have some cash outlay to help people understand that we have a need for money + - This also appeared with the android-app + - Other considerations + - Using emacsconf.org for redirections + - bandali: Someone set up two mirrors for us in Europe; it’d be nice to have mirror-resolve/-rotator that we could put in front to do the redirecting + - sachac: That would put more sysad work on bandali, though + - How do we handle the private→public publishing of the recording? + 1. Upload all the files to the public server + 2. chmod o-r on all the talks + 3. When a talk goes live: chmod o+r + - Handling redirections à la CDN + - bandali: + - We might want to add A records pointing to all the servers that we’re using as mirrors (in a round-robin fashion) + - GNU might have solutions + +- Asking new domains to the FSF sysadmins, especially on .emacs.org + - Have we considered having a .gnu.org domain linking to emacs.org? + - conf.emacs.org could be very nice for visibility. + - corwin: Could we do the same with orgmode.org? + - Imagine if the org-mode website had a featured talk from the EmacsConf! + - corwin: Once the relationship exists between emacs.org and orgmode.org, a lot of bridges can be built between the communities with mutual benefits + +- Alternate streams & Rebroadcasts + - APAC: + - sachac: As the prerecs come in, we can touch base with dragestil re: APAC event + - Other streamers: + - sachac: These next few weeks are also the best time to onboard alternate streamers + - corwin: Our must important work right now is bringing more talents/newcommers, and get them to the level where they feel technically-competent and empowered to help us further. + +- How to get new organisers involved as well they could be with the project? + - Doing tech-checks is a pretty good and easy to get started with volunteers. + - sachac: When we activate the other volunteers, what should we be asking them to consider? *Ordered by priority*, and which we should mention on the ~contribute.md~: + 1. Editing captions or writing new ones + 2. Helping with tech-checks + 3. Looking at the schedule, and if there’s something they particularly like, they could run get ready for a prolonged Q&A session + - sachac: We might have a ~contribute.md~ page similar to the prepare.md page + - We should link from /2021 to /2021/contribute.md. + - Also, other people who could come across it rather than just our current volunteers. + - corwin: ~contribute.md~ is the invitation, and the ~prepare.md~ is the directions to the party. + - How do we publicise this contribue.md? + - zaeph: Could we publicise contribute.md on r/emacs + - corwin: Yes! It’s a great piece of promotion to do. + - bandali: It might make sense to mention contribute.md to speakers + - Our next email to speakers should link to contribute.md + +- Tech-checks + - Getting organisers on board with tech-checks + - Which new volunteers could be bring along on this project? + - acdw (AM) + - dragestil (APAC) + - bhavin192 (APAC) + - seabass (EU) + - zleap (EU) + - zaeph (EU) + - corwin (AM) + - ??? + - bandali (AM) + - Putting the finishing touches on the checklist + #+begin_quote + - Would you please share your pronouns? + - Can you tell us how to pronounce your name? + - Can you speak and be heard? Is there echo? + - Can you hear the organizer (me)? + - Can you share your screen? Is the screen readable? + - If you plan to show your keystrokes, is that display visible? + - If you want to share your webcam (optional), can you enable it? Is it visible? Will there likely be distractions in the background? + - Can you view the collaborative pad? Will you be comfortable reviewing questions on your own (perhaps by keeping it open beside your shared window), or will you need a volunteer to relay questions to you? + - Can you share contact information (ex: phone number) so that we can get in touch with you in case of technical issues or scheduling changes? + - Do you need help finding your way around IRC so that you can check into `#emacsconf-org`? What is your IRC nickname? + #+end_quote + +- What to mention in our closing remarks + - Acknowledging volunteers + - Inviting other volunteers + - Alternate streams / Multiple tracks + + * October 23, 2021 meeting - TODO |