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 ([email protected]: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