Presentation Buffer

[benhylau]

Next talk is...

See: https://github.com/ournetworks/2018/issues/26#issuecomment-387452703

[dcwalk]

Also see: https://github.com/ournetworks/2018/issues/68, I think there might be art constraints imposed by whatever software/service is used for the schedule, so ensuring those requirements are shared back to that Our Networks issue on presentation buffers would be good 👾

[benhylau]

How will presentation buffers be mixed into both the stream and displayed on the projector screen? We expect to show:

• "Next talk"
• Sponsor logos

[Shrinks99]

Those will be set up as OBS scenes, a quick example of how that works can be found here. The presentation screen at the event should be handled separately. Let me know what graphics need to be made and I will have a go at it!

[darkdrgn2k]

I wrote a script that will read a JSON file and update field in OBS automatically

https://github.com/darkdrgn2k/ipfs-live-stream/blob/master/obs/Buffer.py

Currently has 3 fields Talk Title Presenters Name Time

Requires Python installed Add script in OBS under under Tools, Scripts

Python Settings requires path to python script installation

Under Scripts click the + and find the py script

Then click on it Right side fill in the following fields (this is the name you gave it in OBS)

Text Title - Talk Title Text Presenter - Presenters Name Text Time - Time the talk takes place

json_filename does not work right now so I had to hardcode the path to c:\test\test.json Correct this if you with a different path https://github.com/darkdrgn2k/ipfs-live-stream/blob/a1da7aeecf9e2e708368f84df864527abe8bd6c0/obs/Buffer.py#L137 Remember to escape with \

Check enable.

JSON file looks as follows

[
   {
      "title":"Registration and coffee",
      "presenter":"Our Networks",
      "startTime":"2018-06-25 08:30",
      "endTime":"2018-06-25 09:00"
   },
   {
      "title":"Opening remarks",
      "presenter":"Our Networks",
      "startTime":"2018-06-25 9:00",
      "endTime":"2018-06-25 9:30"
   },
   {
      "title":"Wireless Toronto",
      "presenter":"Gabe Sawhney",
      "startTime":"2018-06-25 11:00",
      "endTime":"2018-06-25 12:00"
   },
   {
      "title":"test2",
      "presenter":"test3",
      "startTime":"2018-06-25 13:00",
      "endTime":"2018-06-25 14:00"
   },
   {
      "title":"test3",
      "presenter":"test4",
      "startTime":"2018-06-25 14:00",
      "endTime":"2018-06-25 15:00"
   }
]

[darkdrgn2k]

Also, I already wrote in "next talk" selection logic, just need to add some fields to apply to appropriate fields

[dcwalk]

Neat! Just tagging @garrying here -- can the template layout be modified to the event look? Also we have all the session details as a YAML file, if easy enough could you pull from that?

[Shrinks99]

@dcwalk @garrying The plan is to give the layouts styles that match the current graphics!

The data that will be presented is as follows:

Lower Third

• Name of current presenter
• Title of talk

Between Stream Graphic

• Sponsor logos (Details? Special requirements? Brand guidelines?)
• Title of next talk
• Next talk time
• Name of next presenter

Slide / Presenter View

• OBS scene with a focus on the slide for more detailed information
• Presenter still visible in a small window

[benhylau]

See https://github.com/ournetworks/ournetworks.ca/tree/master/_data

[garrying]

@Shrinks99 RE Between Stream Graphic: We've listed sponsors here. At least one more will be added soon.

RE Lower Third, Slide / Presenter View: From a quick look, could we do without the cut corners for the name and talk title? We should see how this looks with one of the longer titled talks and multi-presenter sessions. Also, I'm generally in favour of making the slide view as large as possible, and moving the views closer to the edges.

[dcwalk]

Sorry, I'm not sure how I missed the earlier message @Shrinks99

• agree with @garrying on removing the cut corners
• also would like to increase the slide view
• could we reduce the negative space? particularly in the second one
• we've tended to use the "://" as a shorthand in branding (for instance, see the buttons) so I'm wondering if we could do so here?
• Maybe we can just do Picture in Picture / cut out for the Speaker and Slide view?

Also agree with testing on a gnarly presentation name I think this one is a good fit: https://ournetworks.ca/conference/program/#community-networks,-a-perspective-from-freedom

[benhylau]

Closing this in favour of https://github.com/ournetworks/2018/issues/68