How to help improve these transcripts¶
DjangoCon Europe 2015 was supported by two speech-to-text reporters, Hilary Maclean and Sheryll Holley.
We have been provided with a transcript of their output (so far, covering day one, the open day).
We need to tidy this up, make corrections, fill in gaps, and publish it so that it is a useful resource and a near-complete record of proceedings.
AOTV will soon be publishing the video recordings they made of talks, and together those videos, presenters’ slides and these transcripts will be an invaluable resource.
There’s a lot of work to do, but if each speaker takes a little time to submit a pull request with amendments for their own talk, the bulk of the work will be concluded very swiftly.
Once the conference videos have been edited and published by AOTV the work to create final versions of the transcripts can begin in earnest.
See also Joachim Jablon’s start on a project to turn the transcripts into synchronised video subtitles.
How we should work¶
In the raw_files
directory of the GitHub repository:
.docx
files (such asDjangocon 31st May 15 Open Day FINAL.docx
) are the originals provided by the STTRs - they should not be edited in any wayraw_transcript.txt
files (such asopen_day_raw_transcript.txt
) are plain text versions of the above - they should not be edited in any wayworking_copy.txt
files (such asopen_day_working_copy.txt
) are copies of the above - they can be edited
When a section of a working_copy.txt
file has been moved to a new location in the transcripts,
it should be removed from the working_copy.txt
, so we can see what remains to be transferred.
Structure¶
Please use this directory/file structure so we can easily link from the published videos on Vimeo to each transcript:
- /transcripts
index.rst
- /open_day
index.rst
daniele_procida_welcome_to_djangocon.rst
Daniele Procida: Welcome to DjangoCon Europe 2015roger_whitaker_welcome_to_djangocon.rst
Roger Whitaker: Welcome to Cardiff Universityrussell_keith_magee_what_on_earth.rst
Russell Keith-Magee: What on earth are Python and Django?- and so on
- /talks_day_one
index.rst
- talk one
- talk two
- ... etc
Introductions, questions and thank-yous should be included with each talk file.
Announcements in-between talks probably don’t deserve to be kept for the published transcripts, unless they are important or particularly interesting.