[BLU/Officers] Historical Meeting notes files & videos

[John Abreau]

Thanks, Bill.

I added the flipbook functionality about a year ago, using the BookReader
javascript app from the Internet Archive, and then went through to add
flipbooks for all existing meeting notes, but forgot about it when posting
subsequent meeting notes. I've just generated the flipbooks for those newer
meetings.

There are various scripts in the meetings directory for managing the files
via cron, and those scripts should not be visible to the outside world.
Separate index files for per-year or per-meeting directories seemed to be
of limited utility and more trouble than they're worth to generate.

I corrected the metadata for the 2001 PGP meeting notes to list Matt
Brodeur as speaker.

There are no directories for any meetings for which I don't have files. If
you can provide the missing notes and slides for your past meetings, that
would be great.

As for adding the files to the calendar entries as attachments: Yes, I
could do that, and I think I did so in the past, sporadically. It would
take me a long time to go through and add everything.

If you're thinking of a paper clip icon on the calendar index pages, where
there's currently a tiny youtube icon, that's another thing. It will take
some significant work to add that. I'll have to think through the details.

Never got the video editing tools working well enough to experiment with
PiP. System kept locking up with OOM errors, and I'd give up in frustration.

Updating the calendar abstracts after the meeting would certainly be a good
thing. If speakers are willing to provide this for their meetings, then
I'll add their updates to the calendar. However, I'm not prepared to put in
the time and effort to create the after-meeting summaries. If a speaker
won't do it, perhaps we could find a few volunteers for the task?

Additional text and keyword tags for the videos would be great.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 3:49 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was browsing through www.blu.org and the youtube directory looking over
> my old content while discussing some crypto stuff with Kurt, Brian, and
> Stephen and noticed the following -
>
>    - I hadn't noticed the flipbook option in meeting notes before, that's
>    awesome!
>    Easier to check my old talks that way than on my own harddrive :-D.
>    - Going up from a meeting note does not get a list of notes for that
>    meeting, /meetings/2017/04/ says "Directory indexing in this area is
>    disabled. For links to these files, see the Table of Contents
>    <http://www.blu.org/meetings/> page".
>    - The Meeting notes page <http://www.blu.org/meetings/> still says <<2001
>    DEC 19 - "Talk by Bill Ricker">> while the speaker tags has been
>    corrected
>    (i.e. doesn't appear on my personal page) to match abstract "*Matthew
>    Brodeur*" on http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2001-dec
>    - Meeting Notes page has no files for my Sept talks in 2009 2013 2017
>    2018 2019 ... which probably mean i never sent them.
>    I should remedy that.
>       - I sh/could provide additional screen shots for 2011 demo,
>       since the video has only a backlit me and not the screen.
>       (I was seated since convalescent.)
>       (I recreated that demo as an email yesterday and made a PDF.)
>       - Brainstorming ...
>       - Is it possible to get the meeting notes listed on
>       http://www.blu.org/meetings/ to appear as Attachments on the
>       individual Calendar Abstract pages linked from
>       http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/speakers/b-ricker1 and
>       http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/$YYYY ?
>       - (It does show icon and link if a YouTube exists, but i didn't see
>       a paperclip icon to indicate meeting notes files exist. A deep link to the
>       Meeting notes section would be ideal.)
>       - Folks that navigate to the Calendar=abstract pages won't know
>       there are other files available, the GPG how-two and registration "
>       *Attachments*" look like that's all there is.
>       - (Likewise, a link from the meeting notes page to the abstract
>       page would make navigation easier.)
>       - Should the BLU Youtube have Playlists for frequent/repeat
>       speakers/topics ?
>    - Q. Did the plan to merge screen captures as picture-in-picture or
>    side-by-side with the livestream ever work out?
>    (PIP seems to work well for conferene videos. I can watch side-by-side
>    since I have a ridiculously large screen, but will ensmallen everything on
>    laptop or tablet.)
>    - Frequently at least for my September talks the abstract captured in
>    http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/$YYYY  is the original PGP
>    announcement, without my later specifics on what the entertainment before
>    the circular firing squad is.
>    Q. For history, would you like / could you use additional paragraphs
>    that explicate what the video or files would be ?
>
>
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> Bill Ricker
> bill.n1vux at gmail.com
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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