 Hey everyone, thank you for joining us for yet another Bite Size Talk. I'd like to begin by thanking the Chan Sukabak Initiative for finding all NFCOR events. So some little reminders as always, the Bite Size will be recorded and be uploaded on our YouTube channel as well as shared on Slack. So feel free to find it later on those platforms. And feel free to also ask questions at the end of the Bite Size Talk using our chat platform on Zoom or unmuting and posing questions. The talk will be roughly around 15 minutes followed by a live demo. So feel free to ask questions after or during the presentation talk. Today we'll be having James Fellows, which is an informatician at the Max Black Institute in Leipzig who will be taking us through Gather Town, which is a video calling space that allows you to hold multiple conversations in parallel. And this is in line with the hackathon that we're going to have this week. So over to you, James. Thanks very much. So yeah, I'll be talking today about Gather Town, which is what we're going to be using for the hackathon, which starts tomorrow. So you can check all the information details on the NFCOR website, NFCOR events. And I'll be introducing today and the platform we'll be using, giving you a quick run through of how you can get set up and then how to use it most effectively and particularly for our event. So as Simeon just said, Gather Town is basically a piece of web conferencing software, a bit like Zoom, but with a twist, because it allows you to actually be in a space with a little avatar, walk around, interact with people in a much more natural sort of way, much more like in real life, rather than just staring at sort of everyone's faces. And we found in the past that that has worked really, really nicely for actually making sort of these online conferences much more fun. And so this is a screenshot of exactly what it looks like. You can see in the bottom of my hand corner, there's my video screen, just as you was on Zoom, but also there's a second version of me and mini me at the top here. And this is how we will be basically the space which we'll be exploring in a bit in the live demo part. So to join the NFCOR Gather Town, for sort of security reasons, we've put a password protection on there. So if you want to join, first you go to the NFCOR Slack, so you can join this by the NFCOR link on the slide. Then you can go to the Gather Town channel and then just say hi, and then someone will basically press a little button which will allow you to get receive privately a link to the workspace and also the password to access it. And so something very important to say is that if you use the space, because you can also use a space outside of the hackathon, so you can use it for any NFCOR related meetings or an extra meetings you may have. That's completely okay, but if you go into use a space for yourself and any other guests you may bring along with you, make sure that they adhere to the code of conduct, which you can also access on the website or on the link that you get in the message from the Gather Town workflow. So once you've got the password and the link, you can go to the link, and this is the first thing you'll see if it's the first time you've joined. And so you enter the password, as it asks, and then you can create your little avatar so you can basically pick different clothes, different accessories, different colors, so on, so on, very much like Pokemon or Zelda or something like that games nowadays. So if you have your name, we ask generally please put your full name here, not your shortened name or nickname because it makes it harder for when we've got 60 to 100 people in the same workspace to find them so if you put your full name that'd be really helpful. Then you'll get to this page which basically you have to give permission to your browser you've not used this before to actually allow other time to access your microphone and camera. So normally, if it's one Chrome, you should get like a button like this and you press allow and you go straight forward and then you can test here. And I will tell you if you see so you should be able to see yourself or when you're talking you should see this green bar here going up and down. And in some cases we have some experience as the OS X users that you had to grab additional browser permissions, but you have to go into the OS X system settings flat under the privacy section and to allow that. But often people recommend try using the desktop app instead that often runs much better and much smoother. And so that is available to the Gather Town website to get that. So once you've completed giving permissions to everything you'll be then now will be sent to a onboarding platform if it's the first time you use Gather Town before. And basically they give you a little tutorial on how to how everything works. So just follow the instructions or skip if you think you're you remember your Pokemon days. And then, once you've completed the tutorial you should then arrive in the NF core office space, we should look something like this. And so now I'm going to give a live demo, and hopefully it won't crash as often these things do. What this looks like and how to use everything. So, of course zoom is high. Here we go. So I'll turn off my video here in Slack. Slack in zoom. There you go. So sorry if I'm not looking at the camera here but it's on my window. And so this is the NF core office as you can see by the nice logo at the top. And you can walk around using arrow keys so you should also be able to see this with the arrows on my on my screen. And this is how you can basically move around. And when you arrive this general space is the NF core office. However, we have a bigger space. Or there's maximum at the top, a bigger space for the hackathon. So to go that you can go into this door to the right, we'll have an arrow to indicate that next time. And this is the main NF core lobby. So if you ever have any questions about the event or anything like that you can go up the information board here. And for any interactive object in the gather town, you can press X to load this. So in this case, this should open the NF core hackathon web page. And you can see basically all the information there. And so now we'll show you sort of why you have this nice interaction thing, why it's been more natural. So with Maxime as you can see the moment you can't see Maxime's video you can't hear him or anything because we're too far away. But as we're close to each other, you should start seeing him to start appearing. And if he keeps talking and saying something, and I walk away, you can't hear him now. So if he keeps talking as I come closer again, as we don't hear that. So this makes a very nice way to actually have conversations move between groups and join conversations as necessary. This is really nice. Then for the hackathon you can see we have different rooms we have the classroom on the left group one and lecture hall. So I'll go into one of these as an example. And you can see here that we have our first classroom so this will be for people who completely new to next phone completely new to NF core. And it's a space to do self learning together follow tutorials that exist. And already, either by secure or NF core, and you can go step by step together and do this group learning exercise there. Another nice thing is that most in most rooms we have these whiteboards, which if you go up to impress X, it should load something like this. And this is a cross collaborative whiteboarding software which that the town offers. So you can sort of write things here, but you can also a collaborative right things but also draw pictures and images. Draw diagrams if you need to help each other sort of work out what's going on. And you should save me the system between usage. So there you go so you can see on the left. We've got a graffiti artist going on there. So leave that. So, then that's for the classroom specifically for the people completely new and want to just get started the next floor NF core. But for the main topic of the hackathon we have, we will have four different groups and each different group will be assigned to one of these rooms of going here. So basically the same thing is a bigger space of more people, but you start the whiteboards as normal. Now, the nice thing about the tables is if we go into the tables. What you should basically find is that anyone sitting around the table can hear each other but when you're moving away. Well that's not working here needs me to check that, but basically everyone sitting around the table will be isolated with themselves. So people standing away from the table will not be able to hear the conversations in what so that means you can also have everybody still in the workspace working on their own things. And stuff who are not interfering each other which is a very nice feature. So maybe show that in back in the lobby if Maxine comes with me. Okay, but this should work. I'm not sure I was working here, but they are to go. I think we just forgot to put some pilot spaces. Yeah, good. So then in addition to the classrooms or group rooms, our main room for all the chickens checkouts talks presentations is here is the lecture theater. So you can see at the top here, there's Matthias already there, giving us a dance recital very kind of him. And Maxine as well. And so the important thing about here is that anyone standing on those orange dots by the pedestals basically are projecting to the whole room so you can see that Matthias for example has this little orange icon and Maxine as well. And saying that he everybody in that room can hear him so this overrides this proximity communication bit. But also on the right hand side we have the second and so the sorry the one on the main platform is for the speakers. Then if you ever have any questions you can go and line up over here. Exactly. Nice to you. And then whoever's standing on this orange bits will basically be also projected the room so if you have any questions during the talks you can come up here to ask your questions. Now the final one we can go into is then where we can have all the social activities and this is here in the MF core cafe. So here's a good example of the private space around all the tables so we'll make sure this is everywhere. Anyone not in this square of the green square there cannot hear us but if Maxine then comes in. Now he comes in so he can join the conversation. So you have these private conversations as you as you want. So other things about the user interface there is also text chat if necessary you can see this here. If you ever need to refer to the code of contact that's the top of the top here. You can change between different ways of chatting with people either private chat to everybody in the entire space like the entire world, and also any people in that you're sort of close proximity. And another thing you can do is let's say you are lost. There's a little mini map down here which can tell you where you are and it will point out where anybody else is so particularly in bigger spaces if you can't find someone to look here. You can also search for people or follow people if necessary so let's say you know I want to meet Matthias I can press follow here. And automatically my little avatar will go and walk towards him in the most of us possible and then we can run and also I can keep following him. If he wants to leave me somewhere so if you're a bit too nervous and get stuck or lost you can just follow people and that speeds things up as well. And if at any point you get stuck. You can also let's say I come here I can't walk through Matthias if I need to walk through Matthias because too big of a crowd if I hold down G. And then walk through. First I turn into ghost, so G for ghosts, and you can get through them so if you ever get stuck that normally will help you with this. If you ever need to screen share to share your screen you can also press this button down here. And this is a typical chrome method of sharing screen as, as you know it should be familiar with this would be slightly different depending on which browser you're using but generally it's pretty similar. Otherwise, I guess the last thing is if you want to learn how to dance if you hold down Z. Then you can dance. And with that, if you ever want to exit at the town all you simply have to do is close the tab. And you're finished. Then if you basically load the link again or you should find it should load you back in the same place you may have to log in if you don't say your cookies. And that's normal. I'm going to take a moment. There we go and we're back in the same place. So just as a reminder, if you have any problems or you need access or about the rather about the, about the event, go to the end of co websites good events. Hack them much 22 and all of the information should be in here. So otherwise, that's me done are there any questions. Looks like there are no questions yet. Yeah, normally the best ways to try it out yourself and shout on on Slack if you have any problems. I think everyone's saying it was pretty much clear. Good. Yeah, I guess that being said, looking forward to see everyone during the hackathon starting tomorrow. And also, as James has said, if you have any problem with cut that down, feel free to shout it out on Slack and someone will respond to you definitely. Okay, see you guys tomorrow. Bye. Bye.