On Thu, Apr 27, 2017, at 03:28 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Also, I'd like to try to put together some guidelines or a SOP for
the
video uploads (like a common set of base tags, adding the right
metadata
(e.g. location / date), etc. This is something I'll try to work on closer to Flock, but I think it would be valuable to make sure we get everything right in the first go.
We need to make sure the videos wind up manageable by our Youtube folks after the event. Would it make more sense (and be easier to those who don't know how to do the upload) to have them put the videos in a known location for one person to do the uploads? Otherwise I feel like we are going to spend a lot of effort to train a lot of people to do a process a small numer of times.
If we had space on fedorapeople somewhere we could use nautilus on the laptops to set up a gvfs / ssh mount and set ip a symlink so the vids automagically get uploaded as they record?
Also, some sessions (eg hackfests) won't make sense to record.
Should we
ask on the CFP side if the session makes sense to record or not?
I don't think we need to. I think we should work with talks always being recorded. We can leave recording instructions next to the laptop if someone feels their hacksession warrants recording.
This is incompatible with the approach of assigning sessions to funded attendees to video nanny ahead of time, though.
No it isn't. We can ask funded people to do the video management for talks. We can just not assign someone to the hack sessions.
I wish we could get away from laptop recordings ... the quality is terrible. Last year's audio was mostly unusuable.
We can rent mics if you think its important? We priced that out.
Let's price that out for sure. I'll also see if I can find out if we can borrow some video kits.
Communication Proposal
Chat
By far IRC is the most widely-used chat medium, so if there is one official one, that should be it.
#fedora-flock - main channel
Room channels:
#fedora-flock-capecod #fedora-flock-barnstable #fedora-flock-grand-i #fedora-flock-grand-ii #fedora-flock-osterville #fedora-flock-centerville #fedora-flock-orleans
I'd like to make it clear that we don't expect people to be hanging out on the room channels. My understanding is that we want to use them for meetbox to pull in transcriptions.
Yep agreed, they exist mostly for the people doing transcription work.
Signal was 2nd place; if we can set up a bridge between
#fedora-flock on
IRC and a telegram channel that would be good.
For context, it is really easy to bridge a Telegram group to an IRC channel. This is what the @fedora supergrouup is using for #fedora-telegram and @fedoradiversity group is for #fedora-diversity. We're using this as the bridge software right now:
https://github.com/RITlug/teleirc
It's a simple NodeJS bot that isn't too difficult to set up. I'd be
more
than willing to help with this once IRC channels are established, if needed.
Mailing Lists
We need to set up:
- flock-attendees-2017@lists.fpo
- flock-speakers-2017@lists.fpo
And we need to subscribe all registrants to flock-attendees and all speakers to flock-speakers. We might want to send out an
announcement
email every morning for attendees and let them know it's coming so they'll check. We could also post a link to the morning
announcements on
the website?
What are you thinking will be in the announcement email? We should try to get those drafted in advance if possible.
Good idea. For predrafted content we could have a summary of upcoming sessions that day. Maybe reminders about policies / wifi password / how to get help / how to do yourvolunteer tasks. Info about how to get the party bus the morning of that day. Maybe some advertisement of fedora badges that could be earned and how to get them. We might also want to do announcements day of based on how things go. Eg if people end up being confused about where the pool is or where the closest pharmacy is or whatever.
Can you get someone on the local team to take point on starting these templates?
Also, let's start thinking about the badge. I'd love to see the badge issued at the event not an evening activity, even if the theme is based in part on the activity. I suggest this, echoing some others, because we want people to realize we didn't just throw a big party. The badge is pretty obvious to folks who aren't there.
regards,
bex