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fanworksHello, world! We're running a bit behind here at virtual FanWorks HQ, because 2020 won't stop happening to us. Apologies for communications delays!
FanWorks is less than a week away, and we're hard at work finalizing the last details to make the con as packed with good stuff as we can make it.
Some housekeeping, updates, and general information:
Important:
- Everyone who uploaded a vid for this year's con should have received an email about vid content notes. In case you did not, or in case you forgot: we had an unfortunate website bug that prevented content notes from saving upon submission - this has since been fixed, but we need everyone who can to check their vid submissions (https://fanworkscon.com/works/manage/) and re-submit their content notes if needed. Any submissions left without content notes when we finalize our playlist docs will be marked "no content notes provided," with our sincere apologies for the problem.
- If you emailed jen@fanworkscon.com in the last week and did not get a response, please email again! There's been a ton of spam coming in and some real messages were lost in the deluge.
Platforms:
- The bulk of the con activity will be happening on Discord.
- Panels (with the exception of one chat-based panel) will take place on Zoom, with Rev captioning. (We're currently working out some bugs in the Rev captioning set up, but we're doing our best to get live captions enabled for all Zoom activities.)
- Streaming vidshows will run through the con website.
- An invite to the con Discord, links to Zoom panel rooms, and access to the con vidshows will all be given out through the FanWorks dashboard.
- Links to panel rooms and vidshow streams will also be available on the Discord itself, and attendees will have the option of turning on Discord notifications that panels and vidshows are about to begin.
Schedule notes:
- The con schedule will be posted later tonight! We'll announce it here and on twitter when the schedule goes live on the con website.
- Panelists and VJs should have received an email with their programming timeslots; if you didn't, you can email us at fanworksprogramming@gmail.com or check the schedule when it goes live.
- The start of the con weekend technically begins on Thursday night, when the con Discord will open for attendees.
- Friday will be a low key day of socializing, with some light activities; we know many people will be working, so there is no scheduled key programming on Friday until Sparkle Motion (which will run twice on Friday night, at 8:30PM and 1:00AM Eastern). Panels & vidshows will be on Saturday and Sunday, kicking off each day at 12:00PM Eastern.
- More information on panels, including the con's version of Zoom panel etiquette, will follow in a separate post.
Vidshow notes:
- Before a vidshow starts, you will have the option to click to autoplay the show, so that it will automatically begin at its scheduled time.
- After a vidshow starts, you can either join it live or start from the beginning. Refreshing the live view will always take you to the current place in the vidshow, so that everyone watching live is viewing the vidshow as in sync as possible.
- There will be separate chat rooms for each vidshow, so that we can watch the vidshows together via chat. VJs will be announcing each vid in the chat room as it starts, to keep everyone on the same page and make it easier to follow along when reading up in chat rooms later on.
- Vidshows can be viewed in their entirety at any point after the live show ends, and will remain accessible through the con dashboard for at least three months.
- We had 36 Premieres submissions this year, so the Premieres show will run a bit long - each half is an hour and five minutes long, with a break between. Bring snacks! Bring a pillow! Bring your cat! There's a lot of great stuff in there and the show will be well worth your two hours.
FanWorks 2020 virtual con staff:
FanWorks is less than a week away, and we're hard at work finalizing the last details to make the con as packed with good stuff as we can make it.
Some housekeeping, updates, and general information:
Important:
- Everyone who uploaded a vid for this year's con should have received an email about vid content notes. In case you did not, or in case you forgot: we had an unfortunate website bug that prevented content notes from saving upon submission - this has since been fixed, but we need everyone who can to check their vid submissions (https://fanworkscon.com/works/manage/) and re-submit their content notes if needed. Any submissions left without content notes when we finalize our playlist docs will be marked "no content notes provided," with our sincere apologies for the problem.
- If you emailed jen@fanworkscon.com in the last week and did not get a response, please email again! There's been a ton of spam coming in and some real messages were lost in the deluge.
Platforms:
- The bulk of the con activity will be happening on Discord.
- Panels (with the exception of one chat-based panel) will take place on Zoom, with Rev captioning. (We're currently working out some bugs in the Rev captioning set up, but we're doing our best to get live captions enabled for all Zoom activities.)
- Streaming vidshows will run through the con website.
- An invite to the con Discord, links to Zoom panel rooms, and access to the con vidshows will all be given out through the FanWorks dashboard.
- Links to panel rooms and vidshow streams will also be available on the Discord itself, and attendees will have the option of turning on Discord notifications that panels and vidshows are about to begin.
Schedule notes:
- The con schedule will be posted later tonight! We'll announce it here and on twitter when the schedule goes live on the con website.
- Panelists and VJs should have received an email with their programming timeslots; if you didn't, you can email us at fanworksprogramming@gmail.com or check the schedule when it goes live.
- The start of the con weekend technically begins on Thursday night, when the con Discord will open for attendees.
- Friday will be a low key day of socializing, with some light activities; we know many people will be working, so there is no scheduled key programming on Friday until Sparkle Motion (which will run twice on Friday night, at 8:30PM and 1:00AM Eastern). Panels & vidshows will be on Saturday and Sunday, kicking off each day at 12:00PM Eastern.
- More information on panels, including the con's version of Zoom panel etiquette, will follow in a separate post.
Vidshow notes:
- Before a vidshow starts, you will have the option to click to autoplay the show, so that it will automatically begin at its scheduled time.
- After a vidshow starts, you can either join it live or start from the beginning. Refreshing the live view will always take you to the current place in the vidshow, so that everyone watching live is viewing the vidshow as in sync as possible.
- There will be separate chat rooms for each vidshow, so that we can watch the vidshows together via chat. VJs will be announcing each vid in the chat room as it starts, to keep everyone on the same page and make it easier to follow along when reading up in chat rooms later on.
- Vidshows can be viewed in their entirety at any point after the live show ends, and will remain accessible through the con dashboard for at least three months.
- We had 36 Premieres submissions this year, so the Premieres show will run a bit long - each half is an hour and five minutes long, with a break between. Bring snacks! Bring a pillow! Bring your cat! There's a lot of great stuff in there and the show will be well worth your two hours.
FanWorks 2020 virtual con staff:
Jen: con chair, Discord mod, scheduling
sweetestdrain: safety & policy chair, vidshows co-captain
AbsoluteDestiny: technology, website, platforms
Beth: social coordinator
elipie: panels captain, Zoom mod
Milly: vidshow tech, Zoom mod
SDWolfpup: vidshows co-captain
verity: access chair, Discord mod
