Sunday 16 October 2022 at 0:00 (UTC)
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