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+[[!date "2022-10-16"]]
+[[!meta title="Speakers confirmed, Etherpad, watch pages, shifts"]]
+
+Hello, folks! 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. =)
+
+- All the speakers have confirmed that they've gotten the acceptance
+  e-mails. Many speakers have confirmed that the schedule works for
+  them after I reshuffled a few talks for better availability. I've
+  posted the schedule at <https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/> . We'll
+  announce the schedule on the emacsconf-discuss mailing, Reddit, and
+  various places this week.
+ 
+- zaeph has been working on the ffmpeg incantations for preprocessing
+  the videos that will be submitted soon. bandali is working on
+  getting the FTP and web-based uploads sorted out so that speakers
+  can submit their videos.
+  
+- I created some watch pages to support viewing different tracks:
+  <https://emacsconf.org/2022/watch/> . The livestreams won't work yet
+  and it would be nice to figure out something that can dynamically
+  display info for recent/current/upcoming talks, but it's a start.
+
+- We set up a self-hosted Etherpad (ex:
+  <https://pad.emacsconf.org/2022-journalism>) with an easy way to
+  redirect to using Wikimedia in case we run into scaling issues. I've
+  added it to our Ansible playbook
+  (git@git.emacsconf.org:pub/emacsconf-ansible) and I'm looking
+  forward to incorporating Ry P.'s improvements. Karl Voit gave
+  feedback on the first draft of the template.
+
+- vetrivln volunteered for some of the dev hosting shifts, Karl Voit
+  volunteered for some of the gen pad shifts, and FlowyCoder
+  volunteered for some of the gen check-in shifts. Thanks!
+
+Next week, we hope to:
+
+- Announce the EmacsConf 2022 schedule in the usual places (got any wording/JS/CSS suggestions?)
+- Finalize the upload instructions so that speakers can start submitting their files
+- Put together volunteer training materials
+- Set up per-speaker BBB rooms and friendly URLs
+
+Sacha