[BLU/Officers] Historical Meeting notes files & videos
John Abreau
jabr at blu.org
Wed Jul 15 08:22:50 EDT 2020
I've added deep linking between the calendar and the meeting notes.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 2:23 AM John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
> 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 ?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bill Ricker
>> bill.n1vux at gmail.com
>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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