WeeklyUpdates/Scratchpad

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A dumping ground for any suggestions for changes to the Weekly Update meeting.

• Produce guidance on what sort of things are worth mentioning
• Only call on areas who have added stuff to the wiki
• Get people to propose what they are going to say beforehand, and vet it
• Allow pre-recorded contributions (audio or video), also vetted or edited
• Allow listeners to ask questions somewhere online, before or after; get them answered in the broadcast or the following week
• Question session in IRC afterwards?
• Post-meeting survey, plugged on IRC and in minutes, to find out people's views on the meeting?
• Encourage audience to pay attention
• Talk about problems you ran into and areas you need help
• Accomplishments: 10 seconds. Problem areas: 30 seconds. I need help with: 1 minute. Next week: 1 minute.
• Link from notes to video, then it'll get picked up by Ben's script
• Upcoming events; important things we need to be working on
• More fame for Friends of the Tree (earlier submission deadline)
• Line up ready before you are up
• Carefully choose the spot where people are supposed to stand

Air Mozilla version

• Improve audio quality. Get phone better integrated with Air Mozilla.
• Improve video quality - lighting?
  • Asa says: mrz team will install two fixed cameras in 10 Forward in Q1
  • Servo-controlled or fixed and wide angle
  • Spotlight on the main speaker
  • Sean Alamares is the audio guy
  • Streaming audio will be from the phone system
  • 3 streams - audio only, low quality a/v and high quality a/v (maybe not Q1)
  • people can choose stream on the website
  • archive of raw stream plus all four, in real time
  • web app will automatically add links to existing content
• Improve stream quality - needs fixes to Firefox? Or toolchain?
• Make sure archives are immediately available
• Captioning