Here’s an abbreviated checklist of what I’ve been doing for the Pangeo Showcase talks this fall (Fall 2023). (partly in case there is a Government Shutdown…)
- Even though we prominently display the Speaker Interest Form, it seems not many people volunteer that way. They need to be invited and talked into it. So in August I reached out to folks I thought it would be good to hear from via Slack, Email, Github Discussions, etc and tried to persuade them to give a Pangeo Showcase talk. Once they said yes, I gave them a choice of several dates and said I’d get back to them.
- I lined up the first 10 talks this way, and filled out the titles and presenters name on the Pangeo Showcase web page, without any links.
- A couple of weeks before the talk, I send speakers the Speaker Information Form, which populates the Speaker Info spreadsheet.
- This provides the information to fill out the pre-talk Pangeo Discourse post.
- On the Monday or Tuesday the week of the talk, I send an announcement via Twitter/X, including a link to the pre-talk Discourse post, and reach out to the presenter to make sure they haven’t forgotten and to address an issues.
- I edit the Pangeo weekly meeting Google doc to add the new meeting, using the meeting templates at the end of the document.
- On the day of the meeting I start the Numfocus Account Zoom meeting at least 5 minutes early drop the meeting doc link into the chat, and pin it.
- I click on “start recording” and select “save meeting to cloud” instead of “save meeting locally” in case my computer craps out.
- After the talk I download the video, upload it to the the Pangeo YouTube Channel (adding it to the Pangeo Showcase playlist), upload the video to create a Zenodo document in the Pangeo community, and then add a post-talk Discourse post that just contains 1. the DOI to Zenodo, and 2. the link to the video on youtube.
- I then modify the link on the Pangeo showcase web site to point to the post-talk Discourse post instead of the pre-talk post.
- I then have a Manhattan…