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Drachenwald Kingdom University
Nov. 30th, 2020 08:32 pmThis weekend was Drachenwald Kingdom University. If you didn't know it was happening then you have been living under a rock that shelters you from a large number of social media streams used by the SCA, since the team did an amazing job with publicity, including video trailers for the event and pre-recorded classes released one a day in the week leading up to the event (each of which had a corresponding Q & A session during the event).
You can see the Event End Credits here. Have a look if you enjoy seeing lists of the many, many people it took to create such an event, and if you enjoy post-credit in-jokes aimed at people who follow popular culture and movies.
As a result of their efforts we had around 500 people participating via eight different Zoom streams plus a Discord server for social chatter. The participants and teachers came from every continent save Antarctica. I was able to help out in a small way, being one of the co-hosts for the Leiden Zoom class room. This means that I spent much of the weekend in that room, ready to help out as needed. We had a total of four people on duty in our room, which meant that we were all able to step out now and then to catch other classes and still always have two people on duty to take care of muting and unmuting people at need, playing the trailer for the next class in between classes, giving directions (in the form of links) to people who wandered into the wrong room, making the teachers co-host so that they could share their screens, and recording those sessions that would be recorded. Our classroom was one of the large ones (up to 500 people could be present at once), so it was the one which included things like the opening ceremony, feast, and court, which I thought was great.
( what I did each day of the event, and how many hours of bardic I attended )
I spent all morning today in zoom to be available for answering questions as a couple of colleagues used the laser lab following the checklists I had prepared (and which I edited as we went whenever they asked questions). Then I spent a lazy afternoon, and this evening met with the Nordmark Seneschal and Exchequer to finalise the budget for next summer's Drachenwald Coronation, for which I am the event steward.
Tomorrow evening I will attend the Drachenwald Law Council Meeting, Wednesday and Thursday I will host the zoom session as Their Majesties have private audiences with some of their subjects, and next Sunday there is another online bardic. It is a good thing that I love video calls!
You can see the Event End Credits here. Have a look if you enjoy seeing lists of the many, many people it took to create such an event, and if you enjoy post-credit in-jokes aimed at people who follow popular culture and movies.
As a result of their efforts we had around 500 people participating via eight different Zoom streams plus a Discord server for social chatter. The participants and teachers came from every continent save Antarctica. I was able to help out in a small way, being one of the co-hosts for the Leiden Zoom class room. This means that I spent much of the weekend in that room, ready to help out as needed. We had a total of four people on duty in our room, which meant that we were all able to step out now and then to catch other classes and still always have two people on duty to take care of muting and unmuting people at need, playing the trailer for the next class in between classes, giving directions (in the form of links) to people who wandered into the wrong room, making the teachers co-host so that they could share their screens, and recording those sessions that would be recorded. Our classroom was one of the large ones (up to 500 people could be present at once), so it was the one which included things like the opening ceremony, feast, and court, which I thought was great.
( what I did each day of the event, and how many hours of bardic I attended )
I spent all morning today in zoom to be available for answering questions as a couple of colleagues used the laser lab following the checklists I had prepared (and which I edited as we went whenever they asked questions). Then I spent a lazy afternoon, and this evening met with the Nordmark Seneschal and Exchequer to finalise the budget for next summer's Drachenwald Coronation, for which I am the event steward.
Tomorrow evening I will attend the Drachenwald Law Council Meeting, Wednesday and Thursday I will host the zoom session as Their Majesties have private audiences with some of their subjects, and next Sunday there is another online bardic. It is a good thing that I love video calls!