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3 years ago DINAcon 2020 Awards: Very Radical edition
The DINAcon event is an annual event organized by the Research Centre Digital Sustainability of the University of Bern. This year's edition is exceptionally held online due to current travel restrictions. The online event will offer a series of online presentations and lightening talks, as well as the DINAcon Awards and a virtual Hacknight. The DINAcon Awards are annually awarded to people or communities who make a difference in the Free Software, Open Data and Digital Sustainability domain. In this document we are brainstorming some ways to "funk up the style" and make up for the inability to celebrate on location with an online experience.
See also:
- https://nextcloud.fdn-tools.inf.unibe.ch/index.php/s/X9QadfSxnGf9Cwa
- https://github.com/DINAcon/awards/issues/42
Requirements
- Low budget - we can spend around max 1 thousand $ on production
- Low time - we have less than one month to organize this by October 23
- Every nominee project needs to be briefly mentioned with a logo / URL / screenshot
- The award winner teams are announced and appear live to accept their award
- Our team and nominees should not have to jump through too many technical hurdles
- The conference participants need to be able to follow the awards through a video stream
- The ceremony should leave lasting impressions, be spontaneous, fun, sparkly, and open source
Categories
There will be nominees and winners across each of the following:
* Best Open Source Project
* Best Newcomer
* Best Practice
* Best Open Data Project
* Best Open Education Projectinspirations
- A MAZE. / Berlin is an International Festival focusing on arthouse games and playful media. Their event this year, including public awards ceremony, was run completely in a custom VR space. Oleg was an attendee. https://2020.amaze-berlin.de/schedule/
- The 30th igNobel prize ceremony featured paper printable awards, simple but funny animations overlays, and Megatons of boondogglery. Note that the much of the broadcast was pre-recorded. Watch it on https://youtu.be/Amkyp-dhYX0
Ideas
IDEA 0. Video conference
A video conference room with nominees being presented by a speaker. The presentation and all interactions happen using slides and video & audio in a typical videoconference setting.
BBB 👉 https://bigbluebutton.org/
- We can use whiteboards and other BBB tools to make things a bit more interactive
- Anything that involves offline activities (paper printouts, costumes, props) works
- Have a look at other events that have been run using BBB
- Ask around in the BBB community e.g. https://twitter.com/Wechange_alot/status/1296790402457112582
- pro: This is our main tool and we have highest confidence it will just work
- con: Limited interaction / standard e-classroom setup
OBS 👉 https://opensource.com/article/20/8/obs-virtual-webcam
- Streamers use a variety of tools to augment their webcam image, add props and special F/X
- The article above outlines some open source tools that we could use as well
- A closed source and possibly easier to use software of this kind is https://facerig.com/
- An open source experimental project is here https://github.com/mohemohe/FaceMig-Bridge
- con: This may require installation on the computers of the presenters
IDEA 1: virtual reality
Set up an interactive session using an open source virtual reality meeting platform, and stream content (audio & video) to BBB using a virtual camera/cameraperson.
Mozilla Hubs 👉 https://hubs.mozilla.com
- use a virtual space for connecting the DINAcon OK Team as well as nominees / finalists
- we tested streaming Hubs room via screensharing BBB -> high resolution but slow & laggy
- participants require decent hardware setup for > 30 FPS in VR
- we could design our own levels, e.g. based on Welle7 interior layout
- ask people from local community to help e.g. https://form.ch/3d-angebote/3d-renderings
- here is an example stage we can collaborate on https://hub.link/ExboyVE
- see instructions here https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/hubs-room-experience
- maximum 25 people recommended in a room - up to 1xx in the lobby
pro: fun, unexpected, highly interactive con: maybe too complex for first timers to participate
Vircadia 👉 https://vircadia.com/
- relative newcomer and not tested by us yet
- less cartoony, possibly with some features relevant to us
- we may need to host our own server, which might be expensive/tricky
- not clear how many participants are supported
IDEA 2: flatland with avatars
Instead of having a three dimensional meeting room, we could do the ceremony in two dimensions, which is easier to interact with and still provides a quirky experience. Almost everyone knows top down or isometric games (e.g. The Sims ...) where movement is point-and-click or with arrow keys.
Gather Town 👉 https://gather.town/
- very easy to get started in
- possible to create custom maps
- hosts up to 2000 people (!?)
- see other features here https://gather.town/features
- not open source, not sure what it will cost
Ideen zur Verleihung:
https://onlinepraesentieren.de/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsce9u9PP6wIV1WDmCh2tiwgeEAAYAiAAEgLyf_D_BwE
https://www.judgify.me/l/blog/how-to-run-a-virtual-awards-ceremony/
https://www.bouncevideo.co.uk/how-to-create-a-virtual-awards-ceremony/
Präsentationsfunktion, die uns Links, Animationen oder Logos über die von der Welle ausgestrahlten Inhalte legen lässt (Zb. Francesca oder du moderieren, vorne dran steht der Name der jetzigen Kategorie/des Projekts und ein QR oder kahoot code) Ein Announcement oder Blatt den Jurymitgliedern oder den Projekten schicken, prerecorded Videos so zusammenschneiden, dass es aussieht alsob sie es weiterreichen (zb. als Intro Video) am Schluss virtuell mit Champagner anstossen oder ähnliches Videos, die das Projekt beschreiben am Anfang der jeweiligen Kategorieverleihung Audience tweets with photos were featured during the live show in order to involve the audience. This included pets wearing crowns, a celebration award cake, kids watching with their families and finalists in branded t-shirts and bow ties. This was an engaging and lively element of the show. We also encouraged the audience to comment in the YouTube chat box which proved popular. Champagner und die Trophäe schon an die Gewinner schicken? Aber dann ist es schon publik vor der offiziellen Verleihung? Schauen dass sich zumindest alle Bewerber (und sicher die Gewinner) einschalten bei der Zeremonie, damit man dann auf die Gewinner im Präsentator-Mode übergeben kann und sie kurz einige Worte sagen Briefing all of the contributors some weeks before: Ein BBB Meeting aufsetzte, in welchem wir erklären wann in der Verleihung was passiert.