 Hello, I'm Sergio Angelos, Executive Director here at Loma Public Media. Thank you so much for joining us virtually for this info session in orientation so that you can learn more about Loma Public Media, what we do, and what you can do here. So why don't you come and join me over in our lobby and let's get started. This info session in orientation will cover four different topics. Loma Public Media 101, using Loma Public Media, Community, and last but not least, Law and Tearing. If you have any questions as we go through this, simply comment below or send us an email to hello at LomaPublicMedia.org. Let's get started with our first part, Loma Public Media 101, who we are, how we work, and why we're here. Loma Public Media, or LPM for short, is a public access TV station in media makerspace, and we are a 501C3 non-profit charity. So what exactly is a media makerspace? A makerspace is a place in which people with shared interests can gather to work on projects while sharing ideas, equipment, and knowledge. In our case, we focus on media, so video, audio, photography, and more. At LPM, you can create your own podcast in our podcast studio. You can create and produce a TV show or a YouTube video. You can edit video and photography using our editing rooms. You can also create your very own live stream using studios at LPM. You can learn about media production, or if you already have media production skills and experience, teach a class to others. You can volunteer and assist other members in their video productions. You can host and or attend an event here, like the sound post sessions. At LPM, our mission is that we are committed and devoted to the education, production, and distribution of local media, and we accomplish that by providing our community, you, with space, equipment, knowledge, and classes to create media, as well as channels to distribute said media. Longmont Public Media is located in the Carnegie Building, here at 457 Fourth Avenue in downtown Longmont, right on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Kimbar. As a fun fact, this building was the original home of the Longmont Public Library. We are open to the public 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and it is available 24-7 to paying LPM members. Now, you may be asking by now, if LPM is open to the public, why should we join? Well, we have both non-member and member benefits. Public access benefits include free use to LPM, full prize classes, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. access to space and equipment. Paying member benefits include 24-7 access to space and equipment, discounted classes, free equipment rentals, and a lot more. LPM is currently funded in multiple ways. First, our contract with the City of Longmont, then memberships and dues, followed by classes, equipment rentals, and grants and sponsorships. In regards to what is public access, public access began to take shape in the early 1970s when cable TV began to wire cities across the country. Most cities in the U.S. have a public access station, including Longmont. Our public access station encompasses three channels on local Comcasts, 8 and 880, P for public access, 14 for education, and 16 for government. You can watch LPM on Comcast, our website, our Roku Smart TV app, and on YouTube. More platforms are coming, so stay tuned. Up next is all about our space and how you can use it. Please note that the spaces you'll see here are reservable via our membership page. Welcome to Longmont Public Media's largest TV studio. Here everything is configurable exactly to your needs, depending on the production or the type of content you're wanting to create. You can bring in video cameras and microphones from our equipment room, lights, props such as these chairs or fake trees. We have built this extensive curtain system with white curtains and black curtains to use as backdrops. We also have a green screen curtain that you can use if you want to transport yourself anywhere you want. On the other side over here, we also have this beautiful white vinyl roll that you can use if you're looking to be a little bit more professional with your shoot. Again, you can bring in any type of equipment from our equipment room and really just configure it however you're looking for. So why don't you come join me to our video editing room next. Here we have Longmont Public Media's video editing room. We have two high-end PCs, one high-end Mac Mini that you can use for video editing. We have the full-blown Adobe Creative Cloud Suite installed on all three computers. We've got Final Cut Pro, we've got DaVinci Resolve Studio, as well as the speed editing keyboard if you're looking to edit something very quickly. Welcome to Longmont Public Media's live streaming and live broadcasting room. Here we've got this super beefy PC to handle all your live streaming and live broadcasting needs. We primarily work with VMIX across two different monitors here. We teach a variety of different classes on how to do live streaming and live broadcasting. And then you can really just go directly into our cable system, Longmont Public Access Channel 8, 880, 14 and 16, as well as any virtual and digital destination, such as Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, Twitch, you name it, we can probably go there. Welcome to Longmont Public Media's podcasting room. Here we have this beautifully set up, great sounding podcast room that supports up to four people here in person. All of these mics and headphones connect up to this amazing podcasting system called the Roadcaster Pro that does all the audio processing for you. So all you really need to do is just hit record and bam, you start your podcast. In addition to that, it supports a live producer, so you can have a producer here in person to just listen to it, make sure all the audio sounds well, as well as just do live mixing for all the sound effects that you may have. In addition, it also supports Bluetooth so you can connect your phone and have that virtual caller join you if they couldn't be here in person. If you are interested in becoming a member, our memberships start with a free public access membership and go up to $100 a month. Limited income memberships are $25 per month, individual memberships are $50 per month, family for up to five people, you define the family are $75 per month, and corporate memberships that include up to five employees are $100 per month. To sign up for membership, please visit our website at longmontpublicmedia.org forward slash support forward slash membership. After clicking the membership icon you'd like to sign up for, you'll be taken to our membership portal to create an account. This portal can always be found by going to members.longmontpublicmedia.org. On our member portal, you can also reserve studio space and editing machines. LPM also offers equipment rental to the general public and members. To reserve equipment, please visit longmontpublicmedia.org forward slash equipment. As I stated before, members above the public access here have access to additional benefits. To access these, please visit the member benefits portal and please make sure you're logged in so that you can see all of our discount codes. LPM also accepts media submissions from the public. To do so, please visit longmontpublicmedia.org forward slash create forward slash submit and fill out the form. LPM welcomes discussion interaction and engagement on our digital platforms and at our facility. We ask all who want to join and participate to keep the following in mind. We do not tolerate racism, sexism, homophobia and hate speech as well as interactions that can be interpreted as such. We do not tolerate personal attacks on users, members, LPM staff and community members. We will remove any content that may violate LPM's policies or put LPM in legal jeopardy. If you'd like to read up on our policies, please visit our website longmontpublicmedia.org forward slash policies. LPM has bi-weekly member meetings every other Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., held in person and or via Zoom. These meetings are an opportunity for us to convene, discuss LPM updates, see what members are working on and what they need help with. We also have a Slack community. You can join us by visiting launchpass.com forward slash longmontpublicmedia. Are you looking to take a class about a specific media topic? Visit our classes page at longmontpublicmedia.org forward slash classes. You'll note that some are free and some are paid. Lastly, LPM hosts a variety of fun events here at our studio. From live concerts to movie nights, check out our event page to see what's coming up. Now we're getting to the last bits of our virtual orientation and info session. If you're interested in volunteering at LPM, there's quite a few things that you can do. You can help out on a production or teach a class. If you're at a local event, help us capture and submit it to LPM so that we can distribute it to more people. That's all we have for you today. Thank you so much for watching this info session, orientation, and for your interest in your media makerspace and public access station. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out by emailing hello at longmontpublicmedia.org. Our staff and I hope to see you here soon and we can't wait to see what you create here.