From 0591b6e6a05f62b0f93dc6cbb10da24ab21882df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 20:14:01 -0400 Subject: add ideas --- organizers-notebook.md | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 88 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) (limited to 'organizers-notebook.md') diff --git a/organizers-notebook.md b/organizers-notebook.md index 7a663664..ec5d75c8 100644 --- a/organizers-notebook.md +++ b/organizers-notebook.md @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ This document is the general organizers' notebook that can be used as a starting - [Getting ready for the conference](#pre-conf) - [During the conference](#conf) - [After the conference](#phases-and-lessons-learned-after-the-conference) +- [Ideas for improvement](#ideas) - [General infrastructure](#general-infrastructure) - [Linode instance sizes](#general-infrastructure-linode-instance-sizes) - [File uploads](#upload) @@ -179,6 +180,21 @@ Replace { and } with [ and ]. [2023](file:///home/sacha/proj/emacsconf/wiki/2023/cfp.md) +### Update dates + + + + + +### Update the IRC topic + + (erc-cmd-OPALL) + (erc-cmd-CONFTOPIC (emacsconf-replace-plist-in-string + `(:year ,emacsconf-year :cfp-deadline ,emacsconf-cfp-deadline) + "Getting ready for EmacsConf ${year}! Call for proposals: https://emacsconf.org/${year}/cfp by ${cfp-deadline}, volunteer: https://emacsconf.org/volunteer/")) + (erc-cmd-DEOPALL) + + ### Lessons learned - Maybe incentivize proper timezone specification by saying we can translate times to their local time? @@ -473,7 +489,7 @@ rsync -avze ssh root@bbb:/var/bigbluebutton/ bigbluebutton/ ssh root@66.175.208.243 ’dd if=/dev/sda bs=5M ’ | dd of=bbb-img-2024-12-08.img status=progress The img can be loaded with -sudo losetup –find –show bbb-img-2024-12-08.img +sudo losetup –find –show bbb-img-2024-12-08.img sudo mount /dev/loop10 test cd test @@ -518,7 +534,7 @@ cd test ### Process the Q&A recordings and live presentations -- Save answers videos as –answers.webm. +- Save answers videos as –answers.webm. - From the pad file: emacsconf-extract-copy-pad-to-wiki - update cache - Set `QA_PUBLIC` property to t as each Q&A gets processed. @@ -580,6 +596,53 @@ emacsconf-mail-template-ask-volunteer-for-mailing-address ### Process the lessons learned + + +# Ideas for improvement + +How can we make EmacsConf better for participants? Speakers? Volunteers? People who come across the videos afterwards? + +- Emacs: + - view Etherpad (read-only): might be able to query something like or + - view upcoming talks, countdown? + - resources, past talks + - ??: Collaborative real-time editing? Not sure crdt.el or collab-mode can scale up as far as we like; how would we test this? +- HTML/CSS/JS: + - countdown on talk pages? + - timezone translations in the schedule SVG, on the schedule page, etc. + - prettier viewers for videos, captions + - make it easier to see the talk/pad/IRC at the same time? + - easy timestamp jumping +- Volunteers: + - better documentation + - share to OBS from local? Maybe vdo.ninja? + - meeting layout? + - countdown to switch over to the next talk, or easier manual control; web or command-line interface to control it? + - make it easier for people to join as hosts or check-in volunteers? + - improve backstage experience? +- Processing: + - audio normalization: better workflow, more people helping + - noise removal (many speakers don’t have external mics) + - Makefile improvements + - captioning: + - simplify common edits + - reflowing? check out [sub-seg](https://gitlab.com/jun8git/sub-seg) + - handle last-minute uploads + - validation: make sure audio, video, and caption times agree +- Infrastructure: + - upgrade to latest versions + - Etherpad (deployed 1.9.7; + - BigBlueButton + - Icecast? + - publish read-only non-JS links to pads; make the pads viewable through the web instead of being downloaded + - customize BigBlueButton welcome, slides, title, branding + - check out BigBlueButton live captions? + - figure out if we can connect to or reuse the etherpad in BigBlueButton? +- Other: + - panel? some thoughts: + - unconference? + + # General infrastructure @@ -674,7 +737,7 @@ Success: You can watch at . New year: -1. ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml prod-playbook.yml –tags live +1. `ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml prod-playbook.yml --tags live` 2. Republish with . 3. Update front:/var/www/live.emacsconf.org. @@ -828,67 +891,67 @@ Explanation of files: -–original.mp4/mov/webm +--original.mp4/mov/webm original file as uploaded by the speaker -–silence.mp4/mov/webm +--silence.mp4/mov/webm silence sample if uploaded by speaker -–reencoded.webm +--reencoded.webm converted to .webm format and compressed -–reencoded.opus +--reencoded.opus audio only -–normalized.opus +--normalized.opus normalized audio -–reencoded.vtt +--reencoded.vtt WhisperX captions, WebVTT format -–reencoded.json +--reencoded.json WhisperX word data -–reencoded.srt +--reencoded.srt WhisperX captions, SRT format -–reencoded.txt +--reencoded.txt WhisperX captions, plain text -–main.vtt +--main.vtt edited captions -–main–chapters.vtt +--main--chapters.vtt chapter markers -–main.txt +--main.txt captions as text (optional) -–main.webm +--main.webm version for streaming based on the most recent resources @@ -932,6 +995,13 @@ Lessons learned: - After 2024: Added pronouns and pronunciation to the pad template since that’s what the hosts will be looking at +The pad is at front0.emacsconf.org + +Non-JS way to get plain text or HTML of a pad: ex: + +- +- + @@ -1102,7 +1172,7 @@ ssh root@bbb ’dd if=/dev/sda bs=5M ’ | dd of=bbb-img-$(date “+ ### Spinning BBB up again -[2025-01-22 Wed] … actually, this ran into some issues with the certificate, so I’m just going to do a reinstall. +[2025-01-22 Wed] … actually, this ran into some issues with the certificate, so I’m just going to do a reinstall. Previous notes @@ -1267,7 +1337,7 @@ backup on live: ## To play the other stream -- mpv –profile=full +- `mpv --profile=full https://live0.emacsconf.org/gen.webm` - Change the channel topic to note that discussion can be in the other channel -- cgit v1.2.3