MEGAVISION technical preparations

Owned by Gurce Isikyildiz
Last updated: Jul 02, 2023 by Oliver Graf
3 min read

  • Remember to record the meeting!

  • Take a look at the security settings and consider:

    • (x) Enable the Waiting Room

    • (x) Hide Profile Pictures

    • Disable most of the Participant activities, but consider enabling:

      • Chat

      • Share Screen

      • Start Video

  • After meeting starts, consider doing "Security >> Lock Meeting"

  • Have a read of other precautions mentioned here:

Technical Rehearsal

Some things on my mind:

  • Happy for retrocombs to focus on MC duties:

    • a chance for Retrocombs to practise his welcoming everyone to the event, introductions to presenters, thanking presenters, calling for any questions at the end of each presentation, and farewell/wrap-up finale

    • one of us can roleplay being a presenter, and we can work out how we arrange rights to use microphone and screen share.

  • Lydon will keep his focus on the tech-stream side of things (assure all is well in zoom streaming to youtube).

    • let's rehearse a scenario where there's a technical issue and MC has to apologise and assure tech staff looking into the matter

  • I'll try to do moderating when I can, but will also enlist someone else as a moderator too (maybe dddaaannn or deft), to keep their eyes on any rogue, troublesome users if they need to be muted/booted.

    • We can roleplay this, one of us can play mischief maker so that a moderator can practise booting them

Duration:

  • Happy for presenters to give me an estimate of how much time they need for their presentation

  • I'm thinking a maximum of 10 minutes would be good, so that a few extra minutes after can be for questions.(but open to negotiation if you feel your topic is worthy of more time)

Level of Detail:

  • Up to the presenter, they can try gage what the audience might take an interest in, some possibilities:

  • The journey that got you to where you are

  • The toolchain that aided you in getting there

  • Insights gained, gotchyas to look out for, anything worth highlighting for anyone interested in following a similar journey to you

Info for Presenters

Intended audience:

  • Anyone presently within the MEGA65 community or interested in the machine

  • Could be a mix of folks on discord, or from facebook c65/mega65 group, or http://forum64.de

Powerpoint Template

Mteufel has kindly shared his powerpoint template, if you’d like a MEGA65/C64-colour scheme template for your presentation

Technical Rehearsal

Presently, we're aiming for a technical rehearsal on the Sunday 25th June - 7PM UTC.

  • Main aim was for Retrocombs, Lydon and myself to iron out the MC duties, moderator duties and Zoom/Youtube streaming arrangemnts.

  • But if any presenters would like to use it as a chance to practise their presentation, message Gurce on discord and we can keep you in the loop on this

Zoom call / Youtube streaming arrangements

  • Zoom meeting will be for organisers, presenters and trusted known people within the Discord community that asked to join in on the Zoom call.

    • This group will have the Zoom chat window if needed

  • The youtube stream will be for the general public

    • think there's a 30 second delay in the stream here

    • This group will have youtube comments

  • Discord server is another location we’re planning for chat/comments/questions