S-EBTM 2020 VIRTUAL (teleconference) - Detail discussion
Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 4:59 pm
Note: S-EBTM means Summer EBT Meeting
The International Virtual Meeting will be a reality, although we still don't know exactly when (last two weekends of August and first one of September are the options. If you haven't vote already, go ahead and do it on the appropriate topic.)
In the meantime, let's use this thread/topic to discuss the details. Place your contributions here, please. And don't be shy. Any help is appreciated, because this will be a little too much for a single person to prepare.
Don't worry, I will create a topic for General Information as usual (sometime in June). I opened this one so that anyone can join in and suggest anything from new ideas to organization tweaks.
So here's the program open to your kind contributions:
Problems to solve:
EDIT 2020-06-06: Google Meet
The International Virtual Meeting will be a reality, although we still don't know exactly when (last two weekends of August and first one of September are the options. If you haven't vote already, go ahead and do it on the appropriate topic.)
In the meantime, let's use this thread/topic to discuss the details. Place your contributions here, please. And don't be shy. Any help is appreciated, because this will be a little too much for a single person to prepare.
Don't worry, I will create a topic for General Information as usual (sometime in June). I opened this one so that anyone can join in and suggest anything from new ideas to organization tweaks.
So here's the program open to your kind contributions:
- Short Presentations with an unexpected and engaging question (nothing too personal, of course). To be alternated with other points in the program. I will write a script for this, starting with real life name (optional) and EBT username.
- Game: a quiz about Euro banknotes and Europe. I will be glad to create this. I’m thinking of using Google Forms but I’ll be glad if anyone has better suggestions.
- Q&A with experts covering several areas. I will invite specialists, hoping they can and are willing to join and answer questions. If you’re a specialist yourself, please apply! The areas I’m thinking of, and which I have knowledge myself in: numbering systems (with giulcenc?), rare and valuable plates (with A0000001A?), games on the forum (with their creators), statistics software (with their developers), public serials and faking (with ErGo?), EBT on the social media (with sen-chuan, bullock99, & stefanlip?), tools for PC and Android (with taucher & spasiba?) — some of you are already being confirmed!
- Story time, an open mic with plenty of space for the banknote tracking stories that participants may want to tell.
- Video show, with official videos of cash cycle and production of banknotes and paper for banknotes.
Problems to solve:
- who? I will be the main organizer, but I’m asking for help from other EBTors. Please step forward if you are willing to help with anything, from ideas to organization.
- what? My tentative program is above. I will love to have suggestions before creating a “General information” forum post.
- “where”? I suggest a free conference call on Google Meet (on any browser, no membership or extra software needed). I’m quite aware that Zoom and MS Teams are being used worldwide for this purpose but, after trying these, and also Skype and mitsi, I came to the conclusion that Google Meet might work the best for our needs. Please don’t be shy to prove me wrong if you know better.
- when? I suggest a double virtual meeting, in two 2- to 3-hour sessions in consecutive days at different times, to accommodate for most people’s schedules. Some of the content may be repeated. My suggestion for the start timing is 18h00 UTC+2 on Saturday and 14h30 UTC+2 on Sunday. (Most of the Eurozone is now and will still be in the UTC+2 time zone at the time of the meeting. Portugal is one hour earlier. Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Greece, and Cyprus are one hour later.)
EDIT 2020-06-06: Google Meet