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diff --git a/2021/meetings.org b/2021/meetings.org index 9ef895f0..1feb67f4 100644 --- a/2021/meetings.org +++ b/2021/meetings.org @@ -65,8 +65,90 @@ - How to get all the people in EmacsConf along for important discussions (e.g. diversity)? - Coming up with a tentative calendar for the next EmacsConf as a first step towards properly working on the next edition +- Check-in: + - bandali: + - This week was less busy, yay! + - sachac: + - Family business as usual. :) + - zaeph: + - Busy week with the job application + +- Objectives for today + - Keeping it short so that we can go enjoy the sun + - Setting up a bigger session next time, possibly for the diversity talk + +- Next actions from last time: + - People-based + - zaeph: + - Download all the recording sessions for EmacsConf & ERG + - → Still not up + - bandali did talk with the person in charge at the FSF + - The files of the recording are available; we just need to relate UID to rooms + - Emacs APAC invitation + - Done; it went well. + +- Things to prepare for next week: + - Diversity discussion + +- Calendar + - We want the CFP to happen in July (so, earlier than last year) + - Reasoning: + - Last year, we weren’t sure if there was going to be an EmacsConf + - An earlier CFP opens up the opportunity for a more thorough outreach program (office hours, events, EUG (Emacs UserGroup), etc.) + - Do we want to change the date of the event itself? + - Late November has been the period we used for the last two sessions + - It didn’t clash with any other conference in that area + - seagl happened two weeks before this year’s edition + - It doesn’t clash with people’s holiday + - Retroplaning: + +- Rethinking the CFP + - In our post-conference debrief, we discussed making some changes to the CFP + - Both anonymized submissions and accepting everything provided good defences against bias, although anonymizing took a bit of effort from bandali; we should definitely continue doing that. + - That submission process asked for demographic info and got lots of pushback. + - Modifying the CFP to include a nudge to encourage people worked better. + - We also wanted to explore the topicalisation of the presentations: + - Gaming + - organisation + - Meta talk on community and the EmacsConf itself + +- Diversity Meeting: What do we want to talk about? + - CFP process; vetting the method that we’ve used last year + - Outreach program to nudge people into participating + - The goal is not to be obnoxious about it; just gentle nudges. :) + - Places where those nudges could be provided + - office hours + - livestreams + - EUG meetups + - other events + - Any other ideas? + +- Topic in the EmacsConf + - During the post-conf debrief, we mentioned that we’d be interesting in having a select amount of topics/tracks to structure the conference, but also to nudge people from those areas to participate. + - bandali: ‘If we manage to break talks into separate tracks, notably with streaming volunteers + - Bound to whether we can get volunteers to take care of streaming + - We probably need to take this into account before the conference itself so that we can mobilise volunteers and train them for streaming (as well as vetting their streaming setup) + +- GLT21 + - sachac was interested to know if they had any streaming methods we could use as inspiration. + - We don’t think they’re using a .webm endpoint, but probably HLS and/or RTMP + +- Anonymised submissions + - Do we need to discuss this in terms of diversity? + - Last year, we didn’t refuse any talk, so this was not a factor in the lack of representation + - This year, we might get more submissions, so it might be wise to do it again (because it could become a factor). + +- Returning to working on technical aspects + - We will have 2-3 months after the CFP has been released to work on the technical side properly; but it’d be nice if we could work on this earlier so that bandali does not stress too much about it. + - It’d be especially interesting to work with a gstreamer pipeline that lets us switch betwen prerecorded and live + - May is probably going to be a chill month. + - Next actions - Project-based: + - Diversity (& potentially Accessibility) meeting: + - Think about people to invite to the meeting. + - Check if they’re available for [2021-05-15 Sat] + - Assess whether we need to have two days to cover more people. - bbb: - See if increasing the RAM results in less CPU usage - Working with the swap @@ -74,18 +156,16 @@ - Test RW speed (elsewhere than ~/tmp/~) - Check if we can change the ffmpeg prioritisation for BBB (so as to get recordings out sooner, or to manage them ourselves) - Does bbb spawn a ffmpeg process that we can investigate? - - People-based + - People-based: - zaeph: - - Download all the recording sessions for EmacsConf & ERG - - → Still not up + - Checking how bbb structure the recordings server-side so that we may retrieve those on the FSF’s instance - Email Emacs NYC (and Cc sachac and bandali) to ask them if they’d be interested in hosting their sessions on our BBB instance (on FH) - Next session: [2021-05-03 Mon] - Organisers to content: - admin@emacsnyc.org (goes to both Eric & Zach) - Do the same with Emacs ATX? - Next session: [2021-05-05 Wed] - - Do the same with Emacs APAC? - - Next session: [2021-04-24 Sat] + - Look into GLT21 to see if they have specifications/doc for their streaming setup - sachac: - Check if you have access to the bbb server - bandali: @@ -93,7 +173,7 @@ - Listing the specs for the non-FH servers - Podcast: - Think about announcing the podcast - - + * April 17, 2021 meeting |