RE: Making YouTube videos work better for IETF/IRTF participants

["MORTON JR., AL" <[e-mail]>]

Spence wrote:
Would your working group/research group participants find making your YouTube videos helpful?

Sure, it can be very helpful to review the recording,

and
...that searching for a specific video from a specific IETF meeting doesn't work super well.

I’d rather not to search too long for resources, either.
Al

From: WGChairs <[e-mail]> On Behalf Of Spencer Dawkins at IETF
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Subject: Making YouTube videos work better for IETF/IRTF participants

I hope everyone had a lovely IETF 111, and rested up at least a little before starting to read IETF e-mail.

So, full disclosure,I REALLY miss having MeetEcho posting archival videos that synchronized the chat with the speakers and slides, etc. but we're where we are now, so I'm going with that, and want to make a positive suggestion.

Making our session videos available on YouTube is in many ways a good thing for making them accessible to the world, but my recent experience poking around at IETF videos on YouTube has been that searching for a specific video from a specific IETF meeting doesn't work super well. Feel free to try this, for past meetings of your own groups, and see what else pops up along the way.

Rather than hoping that situation changes, I'm wondering if it's worth putting links to IETF meeting session YouTube videos in the datatracker for various groups under "Meetings", so I can "view all the past session videos for QUIC, in order" without having to wander through spurious matches with other videos, trying to remember if the group actually met at IETF 108, not knowing whether a video has been uploaded from a session earlier in the week, and stuff like that.

Specifically, I'm thinking about requesting that we either add a "Meeting VIdeos" selection to pages like https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/quic/meetings/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/datatracker.ietf.org/wg/quic/meetings/__;!!BhdT!yoI49bJgf1qpJSmPLsa1_oisx4DmSdxLVbkMKMxSaRspaLfQRULAJmcIeKRrmyY$>, or just include them as part of the "Meeting Materials" for each meeting, perhaps appearing with the agenda, minutes, and blue sheets at the top of pages like https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/111/session/quic<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/111/session/quic__;!!BhdT!yoI49bJgf1qpJSmPLsa1_oisx4DmSdxLVbkMKMxSaRspaLfQRULAJmcIiqKfEds$>.

Obviously, working group/research group co-chairs could add that to the minutes, if they remember to do that, and are in a part of the world where YouTube isn't blocked, but it would be better if that happened automagically(*) when the YouTube video is uploaded, so we could pretty much count on them being available. So, if I'm going to ask someone else to do work, I should start with the goal in mind.

Would your working group/research group participants find making your YouTube videos helpful?

Please share your thoughts, when you have a moment.

Best,

Spencer

(*) I mean "automagically from the working group/research group chair perspective". I've had too many conversations with secretariat folk, Greg Woods, and tools team members to think that ANYTHING around here happens by accident 😀