Basic Ideas

If you have any new ideas or found something missing feel, free to update this page.

Form of the event

• Virtual(online) event

• Pre-recorded and uploaded videos will be streamed with YouTube Premieres on scheduled time.

  • YouTube Premiere shows uploaded video in live streaming form.

  • Mainland China region would need alternative that provides similar feature
• Session languages choice
  • Allow both Local Language and English for speakers
    • Requires English subtitle works for non-English session, So that much more people can understand

    • Subtitle for English spoken session and translating English subtitle to Local language will be optional for each LoCos based on each LoCo's resource status.

  • Just English Only

    • This would be easy, But We can't bring those no confident with English. (Some LoCos hesitate to join because they think they are not good enough at English)

Event scale

• Not defined yet. Needs discussions.
• Expected scale
  • 8 regions (current)
  • 3(min)~6(max) session for each region
  • 1~2 keynotes(Max 2)
  • Max numbers of sessions = number of regions * maximum session numbers for each region
    • (8 * 6) + 2 = Max 50 sessions expected
  • Minimum numbers of sessions = (8 * 3) + 1 = 25

Session video standards

• Need discussion. It should be optimized for YouTube

• Resolution: 1920*1080(1080p), 1280*720(720p)
• Aspect ratio: 16:9

Working with subtitle

Common

• Require all speakers to submit their script for presentation with session video.
  • It's to reduce volunteer's subtitle work. and to use it for correcting auto generated subtitles. Speaker knows exactly what speaker said.
  • Script content should be exactly same as what speaker said on the video.
  • Timestamp not required. scripts will be used to correct machine generated subtitles.

Sessions with local language

• Auto generate subtitle with online subtitle generation tool
  • See list of tools below section for auto-generate subtitle
• Volunteers or hired workers compare with provided script and fix/improve subtitle
• Translate improved subtitle into English with machine translator
• Volunteers or hired workers fix and improve machine-translated subtitle

Session with English

• Just auto-generate with one of automation tools on the list below.
• Compare with provided script, Fix/improve generated subtitle

Translating English subtitle into Local language (Optional)

• Since all video will at least have English subtitle, translate that English subtitle into Local language.
• Use machine translator to translate into Local language first, then fix and improve by hand.

• This is optional, each LoCo(or Local event team) decide to whether translate into their language based on their resource status.

Automatic caption(subtitle) generation tools

• YouTube - Automatic caption

  • Free
  • Supported languages are not wide enough for this event
    • Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

• Google Cloud - Speech to text

  • free for 60mins every month. pay to generate more

  • Supported Languages

  • Guides for generating subtitle

  • pyTranscriber uses Google speech to text to generate subtitle

• Web Captioner

  • Free, Uses Chrome's Web speech API to do the job
  • Does not generates captions with timestamps

What we need to prepare

• Core organizers
  • 2~4 people for each region
• Volunteers
  • Video editing
  • Translating
  • Writing subtitles
  • Marketing
• Speakers

• Conference website - under construction https://ubucon-asia.github.io/2021

  • Github Pages
  • asia.ubucon.org/2021 address
  • event timeline info
  • session timetable and details
  • Sponsors information

• YouTube channel for releasing contents

• Logo

Timeline Ideas

Any suggestions for schedules welcome

Session topics

• Local Community

  • LoCo activities under COVID-19 pandemic

• Desktop
  • Ubuntu flavours
• Server, Cloud, Containers

• DevOps

• IoT
• AI/ML
• WSL(Windows Subsystem for Linux)
• i18n, l10n
  • Fonts, Input Methods
• Security