Re: Status update: harvesting Q&As and non-recorded talks

[Esteban Ordóñez]

El 2022-12-08 20:53, Sacha Chua escribió:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> We're now in the harvesting phase of the conference, where we work on
> collecting the ideas that people shared in the Q&A sessions as well as
> any talks that were not available as pre-recorded videos. It's a great
> way to help speakers get stuff out of their heads and into a form we
> can all learn from. =)
> 
> Status of talks and Q&A sessions:
> 
> - All talks except for the new version of grail should now be
>   available at https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/ and on talk pages
> - Links to the BBB playbacks and to the various BBB resources (--bbb-*
>   for each talk) are now in the backstage area for speakers and/or
>   volunteers to review
> - RMS Q&A audio has been uploaded (--questions.ogg)
> - grail talk will be reuploaded by the speaker
> - IRC logs have been copied to the backstage area; see the links at
>   the top of the backstage area
> - Etherpads and BBB text chats have been converted to Markdown and
>   included on the talk pages
>   
> Here's a good/better/best scale for stuff we can do during this phase:
> 
> - Good:
>   - Look at IRC logs at the top of the backstage area and copy
>     anonymized questions/answers/feedback to the wiki pages as well,
>     if they weren't already on the page
>     - Somewhat manual because of overlapping conversations; might be
>       easier to have one volunteer do all the talks in one shift
>       (Saturday morning gen, Saturday morning dev, Saturday afternoon
>       gen, etc.), so you can e-mail to call dibs if you like. We
>       usually remove names from the public log as well. Most of the
>       conversations should be in the track-specific channels, but some
>       might have ended up in #emacsconf as well. You can check the
>       talk page to see if the questions are already there. If you're
>       already set up to edit the wiki or you can figure out the
>       slightly complicated setup for editing, feel free to edit the
>       page directly. If not, you can email a Markdown or Org Mode
>       snippet to emacsconf-submit@gnu.org and let me know what page to
>       put it on.
> - Better:
>   - Review the BBB recording to check if there's anything that needs
>     to be deleted from the recording before we publish it so that
>     people can listen to things themselves; publish the recording or
>     excerpts of it
>     - Might be easier with the transcript, but can also be done
>       without one. asmblox, async, buttons, dbus, detached, and eshell
>       have --bbb-webcams.vtt as the autogenerated Whisper transcripts.
> - Even better than that:
>   - Make chapter markers for the Q&A recording so that people can jump
>     to the question they're particularly interested in. You can write
>     them in the form:
>     mm:ss text goes here
>     mm:ss more text
>     and I can turn those into chapter headings.
> - Totally awesome:
>   - Edited captions/transcripts for the Q&A
>   - Answers copied into the Q&A section, possibly with linked timestamps
> 
> I'm planning to send thank-you notes to the speakers with the links to
> the Q&A on their public talk pages, the YouTube and Toobnix videos, and
> the BBB playback of their Q&A session (if any), so they can help us
> review it in case they remembered, say, accidentally leaking passwords
> or discussing something they want to keep private. I'll probably send it
> this weekend. =)
> 
> In the meantime, if people want to help copy snippets from the IRC logs
> to the talk pages or review the Q&A transcripts so far
> (--bbb-webcams.vtt in the backstage), feel free to
> reply with the shift/talk you're interested in!
> 
> Sacha

Thank you very much Sacha.  I know it is a lot of work for you to build
this workflow.  I want to collaborate.  But I need a little
spoon-feeding to start.  Would you mind having a Mumble or IRC meeting
to explain?