1# Streaming Meetings to Youtube 2 3We publicly live stream our meetings to YouTube using [Zoom](https://zoom.us/). 4 5## Getting Access 6 7You need the Foundation login credentials for Zoom in order to host the meeting. 8The userid and password is shared through 1password. 9 10Your YouTube Account must be a manager of the 11[Node.js YouTube account](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQPYJluYC_sn_Qz_XE-YbTQ). 12 13To request access open an issue in the Node.js 14[admin](https://github.com/nodejs/admin) repository with the title being 15`Zoom and Youtube access for X` where X is the GitHub id and 16the YouTube ID of the person for which access is being requested. 17Include a short reason why access is needed(for example streaming 18a team meeting etc.). 19 20Unless there are objections the request is considered approved after 48 hours. 21 22## Managing access 23 24### Youtube 25 26To add managers or verify an account is a manager: 27 281. Go to <https://youtube.com> 292. Click on the Node.js icon on the right top. 303. Select settings, select "Add or remove managers", select "Manage permissions" 314. On that page you can use the +people at the top right of the popup to add 32 people. It also lists all current managers. 33 34### Zoom 35 36To share the Zoom password log into 1password, select the settings gear for 37the`zoom-creds` vault and then use `Share Vault` to share the vault with the 38new user. Use the gear to set the permissions to include only `View Items` and 39`View and Copy passwords`. 40 41When adding access for a user also ask them to create a PR adding themselves 42to the `zoom-nodejs` group in the 43[iojs.org/aliases.json](https://github.com/nodejs/email/blob/main/iojs.org/aliases.json) 44file [nodejs/email](https://github.com/nodejs/email/) 45 46## Live streaming a meeting 47 48### Start and Stop the stream 49 501. Login to <https://zoom.us> using the Foundation credentials. 512. Go to <https://zoom.us/webinar/list>, find the meeting. 523. Press "Start", it should open the meeting in the Zoom application. 534. Go to "Participants" panel, check Attendees, promote them to panelists. 545. Go to "... More" in toolbar, choose "Live on YouTube", it will open in 55 browser. 566. Choose to login to <https://youtube.com> with Node.js account, accept 57 Zoom usage agreement (on first use) 587. On the Streaming page, edit the webinar title to include the meeting date, 59 then press the red "Go Live!" button. Troubleshooting note: at least one 60 person has found that "Go Live!" errored with a message "Please grant 61 necessary privilege for live streaming". Copying the link from the default 62 browser to a different browser may work around this issue. 63 64Every participant can choose whether to participate with or without video. 65 66YouTube records the live stream. Recordings are made available on the 67[Node.js channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQPYJluYC_sn_Qz_XE-YbTQ/videos). 68 69The stream title is set automatically from the information in Zoom. We usually 70set it to `YYYY-MM-DD - Meeting Name` for example 71`2022-11-02 - Technical Steering Community Meeting`. 72 73The description should be a link to the meeting issue. 74 75You can edit title and description on YouTube at a later time if needed. 76 77 78 79### Share the meeting once you've gone live 80 81The meeting link should be `http://www.youtube.com/c/nodejs-foundation/live`. 82 83Send it in a tweet such as: 84 85```text 86.@nodejs Technical Steering Committee meeting live now: 87http://www.youtube.com/c/nodejs-foundation/live 88``` 89 90Adjust the `Technical Steering Committee` part as necessary and remove the 91`.@nodejs` if tweeting from the official twitter account. 92 93 94 95## Check stream status 96 97This should say online when you are streaming, and usually be green. 98 99However, it may turn yellow and issue a warning in a "stream health" 100section below. Since we usually stream with static images for the 101video, there will often be warnings that the video bitrate is low. 102This is a not a problem and should almost always be ignored. 103 104 105 106## Check how many people are watching 107 108 109 110## Moderate the chat and solicit questions 111 112Moderation follows the [Moderation Policy](https://github.com/nodejs/admin/blob/main/Moderation-Policy.md). 113Messages can be moderated right-clicking and selecting the necessary action, 114such as `remove`. 115 116If you participate in the chat while logged in as Node.js, it's good 117practice to append your initials to your messages. 118
