Congratulations on finishing your exams! Don't forget to celebrate by joining us for our events; we have our first talk of the term this week, as well as Virtual HackTogether.

Talk - "How to move a radio station online, in five weeks or less" by Marks Polakovs - 19:00, Thu 04/06

We'll post a YouTube Premiere link in Slack (and on our calendar) shortly before the talk is scheduled to begin. Once the talk livestream has finished, join us in Discord for questions with the speaker!

For reasons that don't need any elaboration, University Radio York, the UK's oldest legal independent student radio station, couldn't continue broadcasting from its studios for Summer Term this year. The team had a bit of a conundrum - do we shut down, as many others have done, or do we try and find a way to continue broadcasting? URY Computing Team chose the latter. Over the course of five weeks we built WebStudio, an online version of our playout and broadcasting system, letting presenters continue their shows from home with nothing but a laptop. In this talk I'll go over some of the design decisions behind WebStudio, how we implemented it, some of the challenges that we faced (including but not limited to: browser compatibility, Daylight Savings Time, and how to do maintenance during a lockdown with only two people on-site), as well as where we hope to see it in the future.

Virtual HackTogether - 19:00, Fri 05/06 - HackSoc Discord (The Pod)

Come along for a chat with your fellow HackSoc members in our Discord server!

Make sure you're in HackSoc's Slack workspace! We have over 100 members, and it's free to join the conversation, so sign up now!

If you're joining us for any of our virtual events, make sure you're also in our Discord server.

Have a great week,

Aaron 🤖