Schedule for Twenty Years of TiddlyWiki Livesteams

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#1

Today we held the first of a planned series of YouTube Livestreams to celebrate twenty years of TiddlyWiki. It was my first time hosting a livestream, and it mostly went well but we did have some audio difficulties. Nonethess, it was great to see some TiddlyWiki regulars and chat with users. The recording is available on YouTube.

I’m hoping to have everything ironed out for more sessions over the coming days. I plan to run each session for a couple of hours, so do check the link even if you miss the start time.

The links below lead to the YouTube stream where you will be able to watch the video, listen to the audio, and take part in the live chat. For members of the community, I will also post a link to the video chat room so that you can participate in the live stream. The value is that it gives participants the opportunity to share their screens and give little demos. These were always a popular feature of the video hangouts that we used to hold.

Please feel free to ask any questions or make suggestions, this is new territory for me and I’m still enjoying learning how it all works.

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Friday 20th September at 3pm UK time

Link to stream

Saturday 21st September at 8pm UK time

Link to stream

Sunday 22nd September at 1pm UK time

Link to stream

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#3

Just my personal suggestion: Is there any way to add subtitles to the livesteams? @jeremyruston

#4

I am just watching the video ands using all volumes at maximim it is still low.

Perhaps if the microphone gain could be used a little more on the next one it could help.

Audo improved a lot during the video however it seems @jeremy could hear Simon when I/the recording could not eg around the 37min mark, although there was a little noise coming from him.

  • Simon can be heard from the 41 minute mark
  • Audio missing again at 1:04mins
  • Frozen around 1:07

Once again happy to offer my Zoom account again.

  • If called for I can post a link here next time
  • I just don’t know what my maximum participants limit is
  • I intend to join the session live in 8 hours midnight my time in Australia currently 9 hours ahead of Jeremy (+10 GMT/UTC)
#5

Suggestion Welcome people to post requests for specific demos of

  • other peoples plugins (ideally demo’ed by the creator)
  • other peoples sites or setups (by creator)
  • official plugins (presumably presented by J)
  • use cases and just general TW features (again by J)
  • how to integrate specific 3d party software
  • (maybe even software to make videos etc about TW - or perhaps this is not for a 20th anniversary? But it would be valuable.)

  • Also requests for specific topics to hear your (Jeremys) thoughts on.

Obviously, one cannot expect an individual to appear just because one requests it.

A logistic tactic would be to “save” presentations that solely rely on Jeremy for times when other presenters are unavailable e.g if someone was supposed to present but issues with wifi (or wife) prevented it.

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#6

Thank you @oeyoews I have changed my streaming settings to add auto-generated closed captions and so I hope they will appear for the session later today.

The audio from me and from the other video chat guests comes through to my mixing software as two separate streams. If there are problems with todays session it would be helpful to know whether the problems affect me and/or the other guests

The problem when Simon first joined was that I had mistakenly not clicked the box to make myself present in the video chat room. That meant that Simon could only see and hear me on the YouTube stream, which necessarily has a few seconds lag. I corrected things later in the session.

That’s a good list, thank you. I’ve copied it into the post I’m preparing with the joining details for todays stream.

#7

I learned that in the end. Does it need to be this complicated?

For example, No need to mix streams etc… with Zoom, that’s the way it works, but you record the session with the audio following the speaker, save to disk and only then publish to You tube.

  • I think zoom took off with covid mostly because there were less ways to get in a mess, although we still found ways, it has matured a lot.
#8

I had an ulcer on my tongue and could barely pronounce English the day before, so I couldn’t attend yesterday, so hopefully I’ll be healed for the next one!

(@BurningTreeC said he can’t understand my pronounce many times, lol)

#9

I hope you heal up! I was going to say thank you for creating a lot of great things for TW, like the anchor support for wikitext, among a lot of other useful things!

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#10

I was eating too much spicy food and stay up too late during midautumn festival. But now I’m healed!

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#11

My wife remind me that I speak too much about criticize the difficulity to learn WikiText and Filter expression, I feel sorry for that, so I will build someting to compensate it.

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#12

Great initiative, really!So glad we finally have TiddlyWiki livestreams, About the audio issues, maybe try using a different mic or check YouTube’s audio compression settings From my experience, these things usually pop up during the first streamsPS:Maybe someone from the community has tips on how to handle it better? :stuck_out_tongue:

#13

Thank you @Gregory342 it’s great to have the feedback.

I believe that the audio issues were resolved for the livestreams on the 21st and 22nd September, but if you do encounter any glitches please let me know.

#14

Ha! That paints a charming picture, and it’s terrific that you were able to make good on your promise so quickly.

#15

One thing for better bandwidth is to turn off a VPN if you’re using one. I think this is worth commenting at the start of any stream because it is easy to forget.

#16

I enjoyed the streams and videos. Are we planning more to celebrate?

I’d like to hear more about any plans to change TiddlyWiki’s default layout, theme, or palette.

#17

In the stream of 22nd, @linonetwo demonstrated some interesting plugins including the Central Plugin Library (CPL).
Among them I noted he used a contextmenu on mouse clicks. I would appreciate it if he would tell us more about it.

#18

That was TidGi’s app context menu, containing things like switching wiki or sync using git. Not TiddlyWiki’s.

I’m planning add a TiddlyWiki context menu plugin to TidGi, but not sure which is the best.

#19

Thank you for your clarification.

#20

I managed to miss them all. Bother.

#21

So sorry. Luckily it is not too late - you can watch them now Here.

I know I enjoyed them very much, and want to thank all participants.

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