Re: EmacsConf 2023 update 2023-11-06: so far, so good

[jc@tlo]

Sacha,

Can I work on editing the captions for "Literate Documentation with Emacs and 
Org Mode" ?

JC


> On Nov 7, 2023, at 9:37, Sacha Chua <sacha@sachachua.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone!
> 
> Here's a quick update on how we're doing so far. =) Web version with SVG
> of schedule by status (same as media.emacsconf.org/2023/backstage; let
> me know if you want the credentials):
> 
> https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/11/emacsconf-2023-status-update-stuff-is-happening/
> 
> Waiting for 26 talks (~550 minutes) out of 42 total. Talks received so far:
> 
> - TO_ASSIGN (waiting for captioning volunteers) - 8 talk(s), 150 minutes: 
> adventure (05:58), matplotllm (09:34), teaching (19:27), nabokov (09:51), 
> collab (19:16), doc (42:45), scheme (21:01), emacsen (18:28)
> - TO_CAPTION - 2 talk(s), 21 minutes: eval (09:35), mentor (10:44)
> - TO_STREAM - 6 talk(s), 124 minutes: llm (20:26), writing (08:53), ref 
> (15:04), emacsconf (15:05), world (22:20), emms (38:38)
> 
> Speakers have been really nice about keeping in touch, so I'm not too
> stressed about gaps in the schedule. Captioning volunteers have been
> chugging through the talks and OpenAI Whisper's gotten a bit better at
> spelling things, so that's terrific too. It's so exciting!
> 
> zaeph and bandali will probably host the general track and the
> development track respectively. They've done it for a number of years
> now, so it'll probably be fine even if we don't have a dry run all
> together since they've got limited availability. (And we can take on new
> volunteers if people want to help read questions!)
> 
> My stress level is pretty manageable at this point. I can even spend
> evenings playing video games with the kiddo and weekends going on little
> bike adventures, so that's awesome. I'm still a little worried about
> tech hiccups, but we'll probably be able to figure things out.
> 
> Next steps are:
> 
> - keep processing videos and captions
> - make the intro videos available so that speakers can correct my 
> pronunciation of their names
> - smoothen out and document the process for last-minute submissions
> - test everything again
> 
> It's happening!
> 
> Sacha
> 

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