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diff --git a/blog/2022-10-16.md b/blog/2022-10-16.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a3aae9fb --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2022-10-16.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +[[!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 diff --git a/blog/2022-10-23.md b/blog/2022-10-23.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3bbced51 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2022-10-23.md @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +[[!date "2022-10-23T18:07:00Z"]] +[[!meta title="Backstage, captions, streaming, and more"]] + +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. =) + +- We've e-mailed the speakers instructions for uploading their files + through either a web browser or an FTP client, and three speakers + have already done so! Those talks are now available in the backstage + area (<https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/backstage/>), along with the + first set of edited captions (thanks Jai Vetrivelan!). If you don't + have the username and password for the backstage area and you would + like to access it, please e-mail me and I'll send you the details. +- We've created a BBB room for each speaker's live Q&A session. The + URLs are in conf.org in the private repository if you need them. +- We've drafted some documentation for different volunteer roles. If + you'd like to volunteer as a captioner, check-in person (hmm, + reception?), Etherpad scribe, IRC monitor, or host, please check out + the appropriate link and let me know if I need to add anything to + the docs: + - <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/caption> + - <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/irc> + - <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/pad> + - <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/checkin> + - <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/host> +- Thanks to David O'Toole for signing up for some IRC shifts! If you + would like to volunteer for a shift, check out + <https://emacsconf.org/2022/organizers-notebook/#shifts> . +- We've updated our streaming configuration for the General and + Development tracks, and have started testing them using mpv and the + watch pages. Videos aren't currently streaming, but you can check + out the layout of the watch pages at: + - <https://emacsconf.org/2022/watch/gen/> + - <https://live.emacsconf.org/2022/watch/gen/> + - <https://emacsconf.org/2022/watch/dev/> + - <https://live.emacsconf.org/2022/watch/dev/> + These pages could probably be a lot prettier and easier to use. If you have some ideas + for improving them or if you'd like to work on the HTML/CSS/JS, we'd + love your help! +- There are now Q&A waiting rooms with friendly URLs so that it's + easier for people to join the live Q&A when the host decides it's + okay to let everyone in. They're linked on the watch pages (along + with the pads) and they'll be linked from the talk pages once we're + ready to share them. +- zaeph has been busy tweaking the ffmpeg workflow for reencoding and + normalizing videos. Thanks to Ry P. for sharing the + res.emacsconf.org server with us - we've been using it for all the + processing that our laptops can't handle. +- We experimented with using the OpenAI Whisper speech-to-text toolkit + to create the auto-generated captions that captioning volunteers can + edit. Looks promising! If you'd like to compare the performance + between small, medium, and large models, you can look at the VTT + files for the sqlite talk in the backstage area. I've also added + support for tab-separated values (like Audacity label exports) and a + subed-convert command to subed.el, which might give us a more + concise format to work with. I'll work on getting word-level timing + data so that our captioning workflow can be even easier. + +Next week, we hope to: + +- improve the prerec and captioning workflows +- get more captions underway + +Lots of good stuff happening! + +Sacha diff --git a/blog/2022-10-30.md b/blog/2022-10-30.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cc56d0a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2022-10-30.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +[[!meta title="Captions, tech checks, intros, OBS"]] + +Hello, everyone! 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. =) + +- Help wanted - Captioning: There are three talks open for captioning + in <https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/backstage/> , so feel free to + e-mail me if you'd like to reserve one. I've tweaked the captioning + process a little bit so that I can reflow the transcripts into + shorter subtitles before people edit the captions, so editing is + easier to do because you don't have to split along the way. (If + you're curious about the technical stuff, I switched to manually + splitting the text using emacsconf-reflow from emacsconf-el and then + the using aeneas for forced alignment, because I couldn't figure out + how to get torchaudio unstuck sometimes.) + + If you don't have the username and password for the backstage area + and you would like to access it, please e-mail me and I'll send you + the details. + +- Help wanted - tech checks: For sessions with live Q&A, we'd like to + set up tech-checks with speakers to make sure that their setup works + well with BigBlueButton. A rough outline of the process is in the + tech-checking protocol heading at + <https://emacsconf.org/2022/organizers-notebook/#tech-checks> . If you + would like to help with tech-checks, please e-mail us with your + general availability (including timezones) and preferred public + contact information so that we can include you on the list at + <https://emacsconf.org/2022/prepare/#tech-check> and in the e-mail to + speakers. + +- Help wanted - intro/intermission slides, OBS overlay, ??: It might + be interesting to design something to show right before and right + after a talk so that people can see the title, speaker name, talk + page URL, Q&A info, pad URL, pronouns, etc. Ideally we'd be able to + generate a whole bunch of these from the talk data, so maybe SVG or + a TikZ picture? If this is your jam, let us know. + +- OBS in the cloud: We've been able to figure out how to stream both + streams using OBS, VNC, and PulseAudio on Ry P.'s virtual server, so + it's even more likely that we're going to pull off two tracks this + year. Yay! + +- Tom Purl has joined as a captioning volunteer. Hi Tom! + +This week we hope to get lots of talks submitted, processed, and on +the way to being captioned. We're also planning to make the captioning +workflow even better, and to improve the OBS streaming workflow. Whee! + +Sacha <sacha@sachachua.com> diff --git a/blog/2022-11-07.md b/blog/2022-11-07.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..571937af --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2022-11-07.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +[[!date "2022-10-16"]] +[[!meta title="Captions, dry run, workflow improvements"]] + +Hi everyone! + +Here's what's been happening backstage. + +- Speakers have been submitting their videos, hooray! I added a + schedule to the backstage page at + <https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/backstage/> so that people can see + how the schedule's coming along. We expect more talks to come in the + next two weeks. Not panicking yet. =) + +- Thanks to all the people who've been working on captions so far! + Bhavin, Andrea, and Ramin did the captions for their talks, and Jai + captioned Bala's talk. Tom, Bhavin, and Hannah are currently working + on captions. There are three more talks backstage if anyone wants to + work on them. + +- I just posted some notes on how I reflow and edit subtitles in case + they're helpful: + <https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/backstage/editing-captions.html> + It's also linked from the backstage page under More info: editing + captions. + +- We added the Emacs development updates talk from John Wiegley and + updated the times of other talks based on messages from the + speakers. + +- We did a dry run of the OBS streaming setup with Leo, Amin, and + Corwin. I think we're on track to being able to broadcast two + streams this year. + +- IRC announcements, BBB redirection, and media file publishing can + now all automatically happen when the talk status changes, + simplifying our work during the conference. Video playback and Q&A + browser windows can happen automatically if streaming from + res.emacsconf.org. I want to get the publishing workflow all + smoothed out too, so that talks and transcripts can be more easily + published to the wiki pages during the conference. + +Plans for this week: + +- More videos and captions! +- I plan to work on talk page publishing so that it happens smoothly during the conference +- Leo's going to review the videos submitted so far and prepare intros for them +- Might be a good idea to reach out to speakers for tech checks and bios + +EmacsConf is a little less than four weeks away. Stuff is happening! + +Sacha diff --git a/blog/2023-08-14-cfp-progress.md b/blog/2023-08-14-cfp-progress.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b9086b03 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2023-08-14-cfp-progress.md @@ -0,0 +1,141 @@ +[[!date "2023-08-14"]] +[[!meta title="EmacsConf 2023 CFP progress report (8 talks accepted so far, 1 to review, 6 todo)"]] + +The end of the EmacsConf 2023 call for participation is one month away +(Sept 14; <https://emacsconf.org/2023/cfp/>). Whee! So far, we’ve sent +early acceptances to the following talks and added them to the program +on the wiki (<https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks>): + +<table> +<colgroup> +<col class="org-right"> +<col class="org-left"> +<col class="org-left"> +</colgroup> +<tbody> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">Duration</td> +<td class="org-left">Title</td> +<td class="org-left">Speaker</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">10</td> +<td class="org-left">An Org-Mode based text adventure game for learning the basics of Emacs, inside Emacs, written in Emacs Lisp</td> +<td class="org-left">Chung-hong Chan</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">20</td> +<td class="org-left">Authoring and presenting university courses with Emacs and a full libre software stack</td> +<td class="org-left">James Howell</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">20</td> +<td class="org-left">Org-Mode workflow: informal reference tracking</td> +<td class="org-left">Christopher Howard</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">20</td> +<td class="org-left">GNU Emacs for electronics, note-taking, and as lightweight IDE</td> +<td class="org-left">Anand Tamariya</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">10</td> +<td class="org-left">A modern Emacs look-and-feel without pain</td> +<td class="org-left">Pedro A. Aranda</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">10</td> +<td class="org-left">Writing a language server in OCaml for Emacs, fun, and profit</td> +<td class="org-left">Austin Theriault</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">20</td> +<td class="org-left">LLM clients in Emacs, functionality and standardization</td> +<td class="org-left">Andrew Hyatt</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">10</td> +<td class="org-left">The many ways to browse Hacker News from Emacs</td> +<td class="org-left">Mickael Kerjean</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +There’s one talk that’s waiting for feedback on the emacsconf-submit +before we send the early acceptance in about a week: + +<table> + + +<colgroup> +<col class="org-right"> + +<col class="org-left"> + +<col class="org-left"> +</colgroup> +<tbody> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">Duration</td> +<td class="org-left">Title</td> +<td class="org-left">Speaker</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">20</td> +<td class="org-left">one.el: the static site generator for Emacs Lisp Programmers</td> +<td class="org-left">Tony Aldon</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +There are several talk proposals that are in progress (need to +coordinate, don’t have speaker releases / full details / etc.): + +<table> + + +<colgroup> +<col class="org-left"> + +<col class="org-left"> +</colgroup> +<tbody> +<tr> +<td class="org-left">Title</td> +<td class="org-left">Speaker</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-left">Emacs MultiMedia System (EMMS)</td> +<td class="org-left">Yoni Rabkin</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-left">Emacs development updates</td> +<td class="org-left">John Wiegley</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-left">Watch Over Our Folders</td> +<td class="org-left">Bastien Guerry</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-left">Emacs community information sharing?</td> +<td class="org-left">Jake B</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-left">Emacs saves the Web</td> +<td class="org-left">Yuchen Pei</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-left">How to build an Emacs 2: Revenge of the Lem</td> +<td class="org-left">Fermin</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +This time last year, we had 2 proposals, with most of the proposals +coming in at the end of the CFP. This was usually when we started +panicking about not having lots of proposals, but I think we can skip +stressing about it this year. <laugh> Even with the program as it is +now, we’d already have a pretty fun EmacsConf. Can’t wait to see what +it’ll look like when more people get their proposals in! + +Sacha diff --git a/blog/2023-09-25-draft-schedule.md b/blog/2023-09-25-draft-schedule.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4b93e422 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2023-09-25-draft-schedule.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +[[!date "2023-09-25"]] +[[!meta title="EmacsConf 2023 progress report: 44 talks accepted, schedule being drafted"]] + +The EmacsConf 2023 call for participation period has wrapped up, +hooray! We’ve accepted 44 talks and posted them at +<https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/>, with 1 more penciled in (woof - +Watch Over Our Folders). This is about ~12 hours of talks. If we were +to have 5 minutes buffer in between talks, it would be 15 hours and a +pretty cramped conference. I think we can pull off a two-track +conference again this year. Shall we give it a try? =) We can set up a +schedule for the different roles as we get closer to the conference. + +I started drafting a schedule at +<https://emacsconf.org/2023/organizers-notebook/#draft-schedule> . +Thoughts on the order/grouping of talks? If the schedule looks all +right, I can send this draft to all the speakers in case they have any +requests regarding time preferences, other talk Q&A sessions that they +want to attend live, etc. + +Next steps: + +- Schedule: We’ll e-mail the draft schedule to speakers so that they + can get a sense of where they are in the schedule, see if they + really want to make it to a conflicting session’s Q&A live + (they’ll have early access to the videos), etc. +- Infrastructure: + - Dust off and document infrastructure, processes + - Sort out access to media.emacsconf.org so that we can get the upload service up and running +- Draft brief intros for talks, keeping in mind that we’re going to say them out loud +- Speakers will work on videos, and we can help with nudges/coordination if needed + +Sacha + |