Wikimedia Hackathon 2021/Under the hood

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Some smiles in BigBlueButton.

The Wikimedia Hackaton 2021 is fast approaching. What is missing?

In short[edit]

Friday
16:00-16:30 UTC
Saturday
11:00-22:00 UTC (in 3 blocks, with a 1-hour break between each)

Shopping list[edit]

  • ☑️ BigBlueButton
    provided by WMIT
  • ☑️ YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/watchmediawiki)
    • 🔲 YouTube video planned (with title, description, ecc.)
  • ☑️ Invidious
    Tip: it just works automagically reflecting YouTube. Just pick one here
  • ☑️ RTMP server
    https://stream.meet.wmcloud.org/
    Tip: this is useful to eventually stream on multiple social networks (Facebook?)
    Tip: this is useful to create also an HTML5 video player
    🔲 small webpage with cute HTML5 video player and embedded chat
  • 🔲 complete program timetable
    Tip: speakers and moderators want this ASAP (but no pressure... ihih)
  • 🔲 find 2 trusted moderators for each sessions
    Tip: they help the speaker with slides and serve questions from the chat
    Tip: moderators have a lot of fun, better to have some of them to maximize involvement (now just same 2 guys for 20 speakers)
  • ☑️ find one volunteer video director
  • ☑️ video director
    • 🔲 find primary video director (propose your name here!)
    • ☑️ find backup volunteer video director
      Tip: How to discover if you are a good video director? You have to be available during the whole event with stable connectivity and with decent laptop. That's all! Bonus point: you played with OBS.
      Tip: Sorry but no macOS allowed because that toy has serious audio limitations :( GNU/Linux is perfect for this. Windows is fine.
      Tip: it's not a problem if we have not a primary video directory. It will be less amazing.
  • 🔲 find volunteers for post-production (low-prio)
    • insert your name here!
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    • insert your name here!
    Tip: How to discover if you are a good post-producer? You are able to cut videos, eventually putting in sync audio and video tracks (use Kdenlive or Openshot or whatever) exporting in mp4 or ogg

Deadlines[edit]

  • May 15: found all speakers
  • May 16: found all moderators
  • May 17: call with all moderators (to register in BigBlueButton, play, handle common issues in online conferences, ...)
  • May 18: moderators helped their speakers with BigBlueButton (1/2)
  • May 19: moderators helped their speakers with BigBlueButton (2/2)

Documentation[edit]

Open Broadcaster Software[edit]


See also[edit]