Information for Presenters

Online Meetings

We are holding our meetings as an online Zoom session. Please contact us at communications@svmug.org, to discuss the Zoom arrangement..

My name is Robert Brown. I am the Information Services person for the Silicon Valley Mac User Group (SVMUG). Our leadership team includes Charles Gousha, Lynda Gousha, Pam Ailes, Dan Foy, and Gary Cunningham.

You may provide us with your preferred social media IDs, hashtags, and other biographical text, if you wish. We will include this material in our promotional posts and media. Just reply to this email. My address is robert@rlbrown.org

We usually record and publish the presentations on our YouTube channel. The recording is done using Zoom, which saves the file to their server. After the meeting, I download and edit the recording, removing bloopers and adding our standard intro and outro segments. I always send a private link to the presenter, usually early Tuesday, so they can review the video, request changes, and approve it for publication. I will not make the video public until you approve it.

The copyright belongs to the creator (you), with implicit permission given to SVMUG to publish the work. If you wish to publish your own version, I will provide you with the raw recording. Please instruct me in advance of the SVMUG meeting about the recordings.

The Zoom video recording is bandwidth-limited. It is helpful, but not essential, to have a copy of any graphics used so that I can drop in high-resolution images to the video. If you can do that before the meeting, it would be very helpful, but I generally get good results with just the Zoom recording.

If you prefer a local recording made on your computer for your presentation, we can accommodate that. Just transfer the recording to me as soon as you can.

Our meeting timeline is as follows. 6:30 PM PST - the Zoom session starts for early-arriving members to chat and socialize. 7:00 PM PST - Lynda Gousha speaks about current news and software updates. 7:30 PM PST - the featured presenter begins.

We are flexible about the presenter's start time if you need to adjust. Presentations generally run 45 minutes, but the time has varied widely in the past, with some lasting just half an hour and others running over a full hour.

I look forward to seeing you for the SVMUG meeting.