08-04-2024, 05:24 PM
(08-04-2024, 01:35 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My proposal for the paper presentations:
I run a zoom meeting for a preset amount of time during that day - probably in my afternoon since this is the period when both USA and Europe are awake. People who want to present a paper get a time slot. Audience is free to drop in and out whenever. I simply give presentation rights to whomever is to present at that time, audience can always submit questions via chat during the presentation and/or via webcam after.
It seems that the response will be limited anyway, so it might be more appealing if we centralize the whole thing. Like this, people also don't have to setup their own meeting and audience members don't have to juggle different programs/login codes etc.
I have been giving some thought to this and I was wondering if this would only be for the individual VM research presentations or if we could expand use of your Zoom to other VM Day events. The expert interviews, guest talks, music (if live), new member welcome, plus I imagine your own State of the Voynich, will all need webinar access and it would be helpful if all of them can use a central Zoom account. There is a possibility we will still need multiple programming tracks running simultaneously on VM Day. Too early to tell but it would be good to make sure this is possible.
Alternatively, I was wondering if it might be helpful for the Voynich Ninja to have its own Zoom (or other webinar platform) account, not only for VM Day but for other site-related uses as well. If so, I would suggest one of the Forum Team members establish the site account and that all the members of the Forum Team have administrator access on it. It also occurred to me that it may be useful for this site to have its own Google account that could be used for shared worksheets (like Mark Knowles' plant comparison project) or forms (like the one I created under my account for VM Day researcher presentation submissions) and many other uses. Google apps even has a slide presentation app and we could probably make a Voynich Ninja template accessible (a VN brand, if you will). Access to that Google account could be the same as for the webinar account. I am getting way ahead of myself here but these were just some ideas I had lately (and it helps to get them out of my head periodically, if you know what I mean <wink>).