This is as easy as Google Drive and Office 365 for normal people.
They can work with it.
It's even easier for you because you don't have to figure out why she'll bear who has
a Google account, but no Gmail address, can't log in.
I can assure you it's how if they have tried to fix that.
There is a slight downside for you because you are now a technical person.
You will have to set this up.
This will mean you will have to have a server, but it's not very difficult to set it up.
I set it up is just a PHP application, some database, and colabores, even in packages.
That is something you need.
Now you have some place to store all the Excel files.
I'm sorry, all the spreadsheets, and all the other documents, the script, for example, version
2, version 5, version 17.
You can now store it somewhere, and you have your new member.
You can access to this, and at least you can find everything.
However, this is not a theater play.
This is very boring.
It even gets worse.
Because at some point in time, someone will ask you, could you create a website because
face it your a technical guy, you know about websites, and it will say to you, don't worry,
it doesn't have to do much.
Just a bit of text, forget it.
It always has to do much.
If you really think it doesn't have to do much, you can use a static site generated like
HIKO, that's how it's presented, I don't know how they want to pronounce it.
It's easy, you still have the web server, it's easy.
However, if you're realistic like me, or pessimistic, you will know that they want to do
more.
They want access, give them work press.
It has it had some bad press, but it is easy to use, it is easy to install.
You still have that web server, it's only a PHP application, some database, how hard
can it be.
Other good thing, and I hesitate to mention it because the plugin itself is not open source,
but if you want to make your life easy, you can also integrate next cloud with WordPress,
so you only have to manage one account.
It is already very difficult for most people to manage one account, so make it make life
easier for them.
However, your work is not done.
Your boring work is not done, I at least have four slides with boring stuff.
They will also ask you because you now have made website, and you know something about
graphics, could you make us a flyer?
Yes, people make flyers, people make posters, have you seen first them?
It's all with flyers and posters.
You can do that in the design, but that's not open source, we're not going to use that.
You can use it's kibis.
It's a great application, you can make all the science for first minutes, how do I know
this?
Because I did it.
It's free, it's for most things for your small little theater group.
It's as good as the big commercial offering, and it's a lot easier to use.
However, we are not done with the boring stuff, because now we have the website, we have
the promotion, we have 500 version of the script, you still want people in the room.
Forced them is free, most theater is not free because face it, we want to drink something,
to eat something.
You need tickets.
This is an amazing found, find, I did a few years ago for our group.
This is an open source ticket, not ticketing like Gira, but we'll theater tickets you pay
and they get you a ticket.
Before that, we use spreadsheets, obviously everyone uses spreadsheets or WordPress plugins
or stuff like that.
This is a lot easier, it is open source, it is not completely open.
All plugins are, you have to pay for, for example, a seating plan, but the core version
is open source, it is completely usable for if you just want to sell tickets.
If you want people to have assigned spots in the room, then you will have to pay for the
extra module, but that would also mean that you know beforehand what kind of room configuration
you will have, which is never the case.
Those were the boring bits.
So we come to the front bits, now we come to the show itself.
You can have real dramatic theater, Shakespeare, stuff like that, we're not doing that.
We are doing a front theater, we're doing a one-man show, not me, yeah, I'm not doing the
one-man show, but someone is doing a one-man show and they want fun things like images
or music or little movies, how do you do that?
There is someone who has thought of a solution, you all know the solution, you will
see it on the next slide PowerPoints.
Of course you do it in PowerPoints.
PowerPoints sucks.
I mean, it doesn't really suck as a PowerPoint application, impress sucks equally at
what you want to do with it.
Have you ever tried to put a movie in PowerPoints, yes, was it fun?
No, you end up with a file that's 100 gigabytes big and can't really be presented.
Furthermore, actors will mess up their lines.
Sometimes it's not a lot, sometimes they forget entire scenes.
Try doing that with PowerPoints without people noticing that they have missed the scene.
You can't do that.
You have to go back and see the previous scene or the next scene, it's a mess.
Also you can't fade to black.
You can mess with your projector and it becomes black, but yeah, nobody knows if it will
ever come back.
So much better solution, much more fun thing, also completely not intended for what we're
going to use it for, but still it works.
This is Open Botka Studio.
This is the lovely logo.
This is actually from the last play we made.
This is a very old version of our main actor.
It isn't intended for live streaming games, but it also has a preview function.
You can put your screen in the preview function.
You just add an HDMI cable like I don't to present this.
Then you can use the preview as your presentation.
You can do a lot of fun things with this, like fade to black, which is very important.
For example, if you forget this bit, you just go here, nobody notices.
You just fade and it looks magical.
It looks like it was intended that way.
This is the for our group, the first great find was the ticket application, the second one
was this, because that freed us from PowerPoints.
This can also do music, but not very well.
I mean, it can play things, but you can't really see where the music will start or how
the waveform is going to be, so you will have a nice line that requires some Wagner
and something it will start in a wrong place and ruined.
But we have found this here, which is also completely invisible, because of the great
STL lighting.
This is MixVetryAccess.org, not.com.
What comes something else you don't want to use on your work computer.
I'm also assuming that you got your MP3 files legally, so I will not go in detail, but
you have your list of files, you can play one and then add the other already, put it
your queue on the right spot, fade that one out, fade that one in.
It's great, it looks nice, it works very well, before that we used Spotify and Audacity.
In Audacity, you can see the waveform, open Audacity twice, hell.
Spotify, you can play your waiting music, but that's about it.
For this edition, so the edition we played of the performance this year, that was about
it.
That was our stack we did it on.
The sole person who dared to say something said lighting, we didn't do that.
We used this very, sorry, this is the play, I was going to say this.
We used this very trusty old machine that came with the place we played.
You can also see that they thought of everything except for a place to put the technicians.
You also really can't really see the stage from there, but it's fun.
This works really well, if you have old lights, one channel, one light, like we have there,
but we also rent a lot of extra things, like music, you know, not music, like fireworks and smoke,
and more, more lights to make it nicer.
A new light has eight to 16 to even more channels.
You can fit exactly four of them in that.
It's going to be a really boring show.
So we already have like, so you see one and we have two and three and four, which is kind of a pain in the ass to manage.
So for next year, we will try this amazing application, which is Q light control plus, which you can buy means of this device.
And put it at your computer and then you can program everything in there.
We will test it first for the smoke and the mirrors and stuff like that.
And not for the main lighting because if it fails, the place ruined.
But if it works, it's going to be really, really amazing, but I will have to tell you that next year.
And now comes, I think the most useful slide of this entire presentation, which is the list of software.
With the URL where you can download it.
And that's it, I think.
I'm quite sure that it's so normally now should come the slide with the play, but I fucked it up.
Thank you for your attention.
I have stayed within my 15 minutes.
And this is all about me.
I don't want to start with that.
You can find more about also this was supposed to be a blog post, but I didn't get around to it, but it will end up on that website.
So thank you.
Thank you very much for your time.
Thank you.