MusicBrainz Summit / Task Sheet
Every summit we keep forgetting about random tasks and volunteers are lost about what to do. This page is an attempt at listing tasks needed for running a summit.
Prepping
- Create wiki page
- Agree on dates, once the GSoC mentor summit dates are known
- Help new participants to prepare for their journey (tickets, visa)
- Book accommodation
- Announce summit on comms channels
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Running
- Collecting sanitary requirements of the moment (autotests, masks, diving suits…)
- Receiving attendees from the aerobus and shuffling them to their lodgings
- Getting food at the office
- Booking restaurant table
- Taking notes (or can be taken from the stream after)
- Mapping the gelato parlors
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Livestream/multimedia
Do a test stream the day (or days) before. Check streaming, video, audio, and microphone.
Doing everything via Zoom works best - let Zoom handle the YouTube stream as well.
Setup
- Pre-schedule zoom meetings on Rob's paid Zoom account
- One meeting for each day
- Settings:
- Enable YouTube streaming
- Enable passkey (not waiting room)
- Enable recording
- Dedicated computer/laptop for streaming/zoom
- Connect main speakers + microphone + camera to this one computer
- Needs enough free HDD space (3gb+ per day)
- Ideally it has two screens to monitor the stream + the chat
- This computer will host + stream + record the meeting
- Set up a second computer + projector to project presentation onto a wall/whiteboard
- muted and volume off
- This computer logs into Google Drive, summit@metabrainz.org account
- Everyone shares their slides with summit@metabrainz.org
- Optional but ideal:
- Camera/s covering the audience (phone is fine)
- A second projector for chat + remote participants, to project on a wall
- Do a test stream the day (or days) before, test all audio.
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Do a test stream at least the day before, test video, audio in and output.
On the day
- Turn on main computer
- Start meeting (muted) 1 hour ahead
- Start YouTube stream
- Re-test everything
- Check the zoom + YouTube stream from another device (e.g. phone)
- Turn on computer + projector
- Connect to Zoom meeting for the day
- Make sure the slides are accessible and you can share screen
- Turn on any other cameras (e.g. crowd cam), connect to Zoom meeting
- Turn on the attendee/chat projector (if you have one), connect to Zoom meeting
- Re-share links to appropriate channels/say that we are live
- On main computer
- Test right clicking displays and setting 'spotlights', for what everyone can see
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Closing
- Edit videos with time stamps (every evening, or after summit)
- Write meeting notes
- Post meeting notes on forum/blog etc
- Create actionable tickets from notes, where needed
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