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 as Djangocon 31st May 15 Open Day FINAL.docx) are the originals provided by the STTRs - they should not be edited in any way
  • raw_transcript.txt files (such as open_day_raw_transcript.txt) are plain text versions of the above - they should not be edited in any way
  • working_copy.txt files (such as open_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 2015
      • roger_whitaker_welcome_to_djangocon.rst Roger Whitaker: Welcome to Cardiff University
      • russell_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.