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LACRALO mailing list issues - see discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues for a deeper background behind this issue.

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2019 - Two critical issues have been noted on the discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues page : missing emails from the lacralo-es to lacralo-en list ; and the general error message "Sentence punctuation must be followed by a space" not specifiying where in emails the error occurs.

ICANN IT has a new developer looking at the code to see the bugs.

The discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues page has other ideas / workarounds for the tool.

Background

The TTF filed a budget request to the At-Large FBSC in FY17 for ICANN to finance the hiring of a programmer to assist the volunteer ICANN staff member to fix outstanding bugs - see At-Large FY17 Budget Development Workspace , this was approved by the At-Large FBSC and filed with ICANN Finance. On the 2016-08-08 At-Large Technology Taskforce Call, ICANN Staff member Corinna Ace confirmed that a programmer/developer has been hired to sort out the remaining bugs.

To test the new translation tool, two test email lists: new-transbot-en and new-transbot-es were created and TTF volunteers and ICANN staff joined these lists to test the translation and to report bugs at discussion-of-LACRALO-mailing-list-issues page.

New versions of the translation tool were deployed to these transbot lists in late Dec 2016 and March 2017. The March 2017 update introduced new features

  • translated emails will also include attachments (TXT, PDF, WORD, JPEG, PPT, PNG, GIF) from the original email
  • If there is text that you don't want translated, you can enclose such text with a <DNT></DNT> tags


In May 2017, emails from the existing LACRALO mailing lists were reposted to the new transbot lists  to get a sense of how the new tool will handle how current users are using the email lists.

Since ICANN59, the TTF chairs have been discussing with Mark Segall and Corinna Ace from ICANN IT and with Silvia Vivanco and Mario Aleman from ICANN At-Large Staff on implementing the new version of the translation tool developed by ICANN IT on the existing LACRALO mailing lists.

To minimize the issue of persons posting to both lists at the same time which would create problems, members of LACRALO will be asked via online survey at https://goo.gl/forms/sEOEWqacRYLPk2Xc2 to indicate
* which lac discuss list do you wish to RECEIVE emails from (English, Spanish, or both)
* which lac discuss list do you wish to be able to SEND emails to. You can post to one list.

A conference call for LACRALO members was held on Tuesday Sept 5 2017 (see recordings at https://community.icann.org/x/yh8hB) to raise awareness of the planned changes to the translation tool used for the LACRALO mailing lists and what persons on the LACRALO lists need to do to prepare for the changes.

The tool was deployed to the main LACRALO lists on October 6 2017.

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the ability to export Adobe Connect recordings from Flash only recordings to formats like MP4 which can be edited and put on video sharing websites for easier resharing and accessible to the At-Large community.

This is important because Adobe Connect recordings in Flash are unplayable on mobile and tablet devices. Also, playing an Adobe Connect recording on a PC with Flash installed is cumbersome compared with experiences on video sharing websites.

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  • There is a way for an end user to download a Adobe Connect recording locally by adding the following to the end of the URL for the Adobe Connect recording you wish to save: /output/filename.zip?download=zip
    However the ZIP file contains a lot of FLV and XML files. So putting together a sequence of FLVs and converting to MP4 appears to be challenging.

  • another approach is for a user to use screen recording software to record the session in real time.
  • With Adobe Connect 9.5, admins have the ability to save recordings in MP4 format - see http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeconnect/2015/09/introducing-adobe-connect-9-5.html and https://helpx.adobe.com/adobe-connect/using/recording-playing-back-meetings.html but still requires admins to playback the recording in real time to do the conversion of the adobe connect recording to MP4. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blGohXaJKog
  • ICANN has enabled this ability to save recordings in MP4 based on advice given by TTF on the At-Large Technology Taskforce 2016-04-18 call. At-Large Staff are currently experimenting with the steps needed to do the conversion and the uploading of the videos to YouTube.
  • Jan 2017 update : Ariel Liang and Terri Agnew have done a export of a At-Large Capacity Building session recording to MP4 and uploaded on YouTube at https://youtu.be/5W6UC_ehPdY.
  • Challenges noted:
    • the bandwidth remain to stay connected to the Adobe Connect room to download/export the recording and to then upload the video to YouTube
    • ability to do regular ICANN work including being on conference calls whilst the download and upload is happening in the background.
  • Suggested workaround : have At-Large staff remote control a machine at an ICANN office to do the download/export to MP4 and uploading to YouTube, alleviating the need for staff's computers to be tied up doing the download/export.

    Another workaround - have someone with sufficient internet bandwidth livestream their desktop screen showing the Adobe Connect room. The challenge is the "sufficient internet bandwidth to both be in the AC room and livestreaming to YouTube at the same time.

Update September 15 2017 - At ICANN59, Billy Einkamerer noted that YouTube supports FLV uploads. Mario made available a FLV video of the TTF session at ICANN59 (a 342MB file) and video was uploaded by Dev Anand Teelucksingh to YouTube. .


Having server resources available to test open source solutions like Mattermost, eXo

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Having server resources available to test open source solutions like Mattermost, eXo

Whilst several tools have been identified as potential tools that could be useful for At-Large, currently we have to ask volunteers to donate hosting and to configure such server resources. Such persons are rare in At-Large and are typically busy persons to assist with the deployment of such tools for At-Large Testing.

Whilst Mattermost testing has now begun thanks to a volunteer, the more complex eXo platform testing has not started.

Can ICANN assist with proving server resources?

Workaround : use Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Cloud Computing Services that provides 1 year for new Amazon customers.

(submitted by Satish Babu) - the dial-out quality for most conference calls are quite poor and practically unintelligeble for 60-70% of the time. The device used at my end is my mobile phone, which works ok for normal calls. Can something be done about this? The AC room audio is much better (in listen-only mode), although it's somewhat noisy if I try to speak at peak hours.

Olivier Crepin Le-Blond also has had numerous problems with the quality of the calls



user-b6f25 to schedule test calls with Adigo and Satish

"(submitted by Seun Ojedeji[community.icann.org]) It will be great to have a chat-only pod for adobe connect. Considering the recent improvement with AC, is this may be a good feature to explore; It will be useful for participants who are on dial-out (but bandwidth limited) to follow the chat as well."






Adobe Connect Issues

Specific issues/challenges for Adobe Connect are to be noted here

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