Daily Q&A sessions now on zoom webinar

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We’ve been having persistent problems with crowdcast Q&A sessions - presenters dropping out, downtime, unbearable echo, etc. It’s time to switch to a more robust platform. Starting today with the Asia/Oceania Q&A, we will switch all of our sessions to zoom webinar.

  • Q&As and other livestreams (professional development and special events) can be accessed via the URL neuromatchacademy.org/stream. It redirects to a zoom webinar magic URL.
  • Livestreams will be happening on zoom webinar, which has question upvoting and chat, much like crowdcast, and runs inside of the regular zoom interface
  • Livestreams will be rebroadcast live on YouTube
  • Recordings will be tagged and available for replay on YouTube within 8 hours

We are broadcasting this change on all our channels (slack, Neurostars, WeChat, the current crowdcast, etc.) . This should lead to minimum disruption, and better experience for both observers and interactive sutents.

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If you can’t vote on questions, e.g. because you use the zoom client on ubuntu, you can join the meeting directly in the browser as explained here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629443-Zoom-web-client#h_d058aa08-10b5-4c9f-b029-4ce9603bb2d1.

For me, doing that with Firefox, I could then vote on the questions in the browser.

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Thanks for the work with this. Regarding the youtube streams, it would be great if it is possible to label them with the date of the stream

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