Increase discoverability of the recordings of the ISC Community Calls

[spier]

Purpose & Details

The collection of community calls contains many different topics, and there have been many great speakers over the last years.

I visited the event page the other day, and clicked on one of the recent community calls. I was surprized that I was redirected to an eventbrite page. As a user/reader/watcher I did not find that page super helpful, after the community call has already happened.

So I started to wonder which page to point to from the event overview page instead.

Ideas:

1) (simple) remove the "open event" link and point straight to the recording on youtube 2) (medium) create a dedicated page for each community call on innersourcecommons.org/events/... with extra information about the event. 3) (complex) extension of idea (2). add a transcript of the community call to the dedicated page, which improves discoverability of our community calls, as the search engines can use that to point readers to relevant content on our website

Example

This example shows an implementation of this idea from a German podcast that I recently presented at. Even though you might not understand the language, I hope you can still get the idea.

Take a look at this details page for the podcast episode that I recorded with them. They are generating a transcript, adding jump marks (to sections of the podcast), and have a section with further reading. Very cool, isn't it?

Implementation ideas

www.assemblyai.com is used to process the audio and generate the transcript. Costs are at about $0.37 / hour, making it fairly cheap.

I have some more information about this implementation that I can add later.

First I wanted to hear if the marketing group finds the idea interest at all, and if the blockers below can be solved for.

Help Needed / Blockers

• If we use a for-pay 3rd party to generate the transcripts, how could the ISC pay for this?

[rrrutledge]

For #3 above, maybe we can link to an AI summarization of the call.

[spier]

@rrrutledge any thoughts on how the ISC could handle the payments for such a service?

Estimating the costs:

• 2 community calls per month
• about 30 minutes per community call (using 1h as an upper boundary for simplicity)
• $0.37/h for speed to text with the assemblyai.com service
• => $0.37 2 12 = 8.88 USD/year

So fair to say that costs are relatively low.

How could the ISC handle the payment?

I am assuming when registering one has to provide a credit card, so I suspect the only option would be to pay with a private card and then claim the money back from the ISC somehow?

Do we have any such service that is pay-per-use?

Alternatively I can also ask assemblyai.com if there is a free-tier for non-profits. Still could be interesting to explore the questions above.

[rrrutledge]

@spier right now people are paying on their personal credit card and asking for reimbursement. Soon we will be getting a new bank account that is associated with a card that can make online payments.