Banter sessions

Banter sessions are run weekly, currently (29Apr24) at noon on Wednesdays. They are intended as a communications outreach to expand GC users. This guide covers all setup and operating instructions.

Preliminaries:

1. Book a speaker and a slot. The table of Banter Sessions (past, and future) is kept in the KB here. Please be sure to enter details for your slot, even if only a placeholder until your presenter has confirmed the date.

2. Send this zoom registration link for the Banter session to your presenter, so that he has access

Post-session actions:

1. Get hold of the zoom recordings from the session (as of 29Apr24, these all come to Graham: video, audio, chat, vtt (ai text summary of audio, not very useful as at 02May24, hopefully will improve)

2. Trim the video as appropriate (usually the early chat as people login can be usefully removed) with your favourite video editor (with Linux, Video Trimmer is first-class for trimming off minutes at the start of a video; Video Cutter better if you need to take stuff out of the middle)

3. Create a video timeline in mins:secs) for major events in the session:

   1. 00:00 - 05:16 Starting banter

   2. 05:16 - 25:34 "Blah Blah" Presentation by Pooh Bear

   3. 25:34 - 65:12 (end) Q & A discussion

4. Upload video to the GC Banter session Youtube channel (login: [e-mail]; pw 24$HAB-enma01)

5. Copy the hyperlink to the video to your clipboard (or store it somewhere)

6. Give the video on Youtube a Title, a description, and the video timeline created in 3. above

7. In Gitbook, Knowledgebase, Climate, Banter sessions, open up the list of banter sessions, and find the one immediately prior to the one you are adding (ie probably the last one on the existing list)

8. Click on 'Edit' (blue button, top right corner)

9. Hover just below the last line of the prior topic, and a blue line with a '+' sign appears

10. Click on the plus sign, to create a new page

11. Edit the title of the page to something like "Banter nn: Name of Presentation, date in ddmmmyy format, name of presenter"

12. Put the description from your video on Youtube into the Page Description (optional) field if it will fit (limited to two lines), else where it says "enter your content here"

13. Invoke the "/" to pull up the editing menu, type 'embed' to pull up the 'embed url' option, and enter the video link from Youtube, click 'Insert'. The video arrives in Gitbook

14. Add a caption to the video if you wish

15. Left click in the space below the video, and enter '/' to bring up the 'Edit' menu, type in 'div' to select the 'Divider'

16. Repeat the left click and '/' to bring up the 'Edit' menu, type in 'Heading 3', then 'Presentation:'

17. On the line below 'Presentation', click '/' and type 'file' to bring up the 'Insert Files' menu, and pull up the presentation file in the 'Drop your file or browse' space at the top of the right column. (Note that you can select the line below simply by pressing the 'Return/Enter' key whilst at the end of the previous line)

18. The presentation arrives as a box. You can test that you have the right one by clicking on the paper clip at the left inner end of the box

19. Add any supplementary docs as required - eg an example from a parish

20. '/' and type 'div' to bring up a divider

21. '/' and type 'Header 3' to enter 'Chat Text'

22. Copy and paste the Chat Text from the Zoom meeting

23. Go through the chat text to separate out each comment by 'Return/Enter' in front of each time

24. Make the links in the text active by highlighting them, copying them (Ctrl C), and click on the hyperlink symbol in the edit bar that appears above the highlighted text, and paste (Ctrl V) the copied text into the space marked 'Type url or reference' at the top of the options box. Note that you must press 'Return/Enter' key for the link to stick

25. Once the new entry is complete, you need to link the page to the Table of Banner Sessions which exists on the header page "Banter Sessions (inc table of all sessions past and future)". In the left menu, hover your mouse over the banter session that you have just completed until the three dots option appears, click on it, and select 'Copy Link'. Scroll up to the "Banter Sessions" page, and find your entry in the Table of Banter Sessions (if it does not exist yet, now is the time to add it, please!). Highlight the relevant entry in the 'Banter # and Title' column so that the editing box appears above it, click on the hyperlink icon, and paste in the link. Don't forget that the link will not stick if you have not pressed on the 'Return/Enter' key on your keyboard. The idea here is that viewers may click on the desired banter session in the Table, and they will be taken straight to the page for that session

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27. If you have other entries/changes to make, now is a good time. If not, click the blue 'Merge' button top right to add your new entries to the live Gitbook, and you will be returned to it (ie no longer in 'Edit' mode). If somebody else is editing the same page at the same time, the 'Merge' button will have changed to a 'Change Request' button (I think! not yet experienced at time of writing 02May24)

1. in KB Banter sessions to the

Add as sub-chapters the details for each individual session: links to videos, presentations, leads, comments. Note that it is better to include entire texts and presentations where possible.