Reviewer

Reviewer is someone who gets the dubious privilege to watch the video from start to finish and decide if it is good enough or needs fixing. We just ask that they really watch it all and not get bored and stop watching.

Presenters should post: "Who wants to review my talk video before it is released to the public?" and give it to the first person that replies.

The video processing system will give you the presenter the same emails and options, so don't sign up yourself. We want a 2nd set of eyes, redundancy, all that. A great candidate is someone who was encouraging you to give the talk.

If someone decides it is good and clicks Approve, it will then be released to the public.

If it needs fixing, it will be fixed and a new version posted. This may take only a few hours for simple problems or days for something complicated.

If you need some level of control over the process of your video being released to the public, then you should ask not to have it released until you personally approve it. We can accommodate this, and something of this nature does deserve a 2nd person to help out. In the past this person has been from the company legal department.

Anyone can do this.

Things that might need fixing:

• The title is wrong. (Spelled wrong, title of a different talk, text is chopped off because it is too long and doesn't fit. etc.)
• There is 10 min of break in the middle. Or the end. Or the beginning.
• No sound. Sometimes the connection from the PA system to the recording system goes out.
• Bad sound. Sometimes the connection from the PA system to the recording system goes bad.
• Someone says "oh, please don't include that in the video?"
• Someone gives out someone's phone number.
• the video looks like this:

These are examples, not an exhaustive list. If you see something that you think should be fixed, then we will hold off releasing it and look into it. We may decide it is ok, or as good as it will get and release it anyway, but this is how we catch the problems that can be fixed.

Anyone can review a video. Ideally the volunteer would already be interested in the topic of the video, and be able to review it promptly, it will speed up the process for others looking forward to the video.

Note: This does not block or slow down videos being released by the producers. It helps them out by paralleling and increasing the attention each video gets as it travels though the pipeline. Videos get released quicker and problems get addressed sooner. It also does not interfere with a presenter's request to hold off or never release a video.

Don't worry about a burden of responsibility. If this bit falls apart, it doesn't break anything and your video will get processed eventually, which has been working pretty good for years. I am just trying to make it a little better.

More fluff: I want to emphasize that each reviewer should only be responsible for one talk. If you get asked to review more than one, congratulations you offered a promotion to manager. Either decline all but one, or decline all of them and help find people to back fill.