Second Annual LDSTech Talk

You are invited to participate in the second annual online LDSTech Talk hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on September 17 at 6:00 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time (MDT).

Last year, Joel Dehlin, the CIO of the ICS Department, gave a presentation and answered some of your questions via webcast. Download the inaugural online LDSTech Talk from August, 2008.

We encourage you to submit questions early by filling out the LDSTech Talk Question form. Please keep questions short and concise. Use #ldstechtalk hashtag to discuss the event on Twitter.

In addition to the opportunity of having your questions answered by Joel and a panel of Church employees, we will also present the 2009 LDSTech Awards. Please take the opportunity to nominate someone you feel deserves to be recognized for their efforts. There will be three categories this year, which include:

• Helping Hand - recognizing an individual who has gone the extra mile to help and guide others within the LDSTech community
• Top Tester - recognizing an individual who has helped test and improve community development projects
• Coding Guru - recognizing an individual who has made significant code contributions on a community development project

More details are forthcoming.

Nominate someone for the LDSTech Awards.

Register for the LDSTech Talk by September 15, 2009.

McDanielCA wrote:Register for the LDSTech Talk by September 15, 2009.

By the way, I love the idea of the little beehive-mouse logo for the LDSTech Awards at the link you gave for registering!

The "Download the inaugural online LDSTech Talk" link didn't work. Any chance you can update it. Love to see it. Thanks.

shakmatt wrote:The "Download the inaugural online LDSTech Talk" link didn't work. Any chance you can update it. Love to see it. Thanks.

Thanks, I fixed the link in the original post and in yours. Apparently it was coded to go to an internal Church IP address or something.

The email field on the registration page had some sort of JavaScript bug when I tried to register using Firefox 3.5.2. Internet Explorer 6 seemed to work. Anybody else have the same problem?

I used FireFox 3.5.2 without any problem.

I used IE8 with no problems. Not that that will help.

Matt,

If you are still not having success submitting your question just post it here and it will be considered.

Cassie,

I haven't felt "bright" enough to come up with a good question yet. I just had a minor problem with registration that was solved by using a different browser. Thanks for your concern.

I'm glad you were able to register. I haven't had anyone else mention that they can't register but I hope this is an isolated event.

I'd also like to invite anyone that has a blog, a Twitter account, or any other public venue to encourage others to participate. We want as many people to be aware of the event as possible. Feel free to use portions of the text that are published on this site.

Fantastic! I look forward to participating.

I hope to participate too though by my calculations it will be 1am for me when it is broadcast.

Carl Jokl wrote:I hope to participate too though by my calculations it will be 1am for me when it is broadcast.

We can do it hehe

That's pretty late! I wouldn't blame you for watching it when it's available to download. You'll just be in suspense for a bit

It is all about Live participation. If I get fired for falling asleep on my desk the next day then so be it.

I assume that one reason we were asked to register was so that we could be sent details as to how to connect to the meeting. But it is less than 48 hours away now. Will those connection details be sent soon?

I received it few minutes ago, Alan_Brown...

MorettiDP wrote:I received it few minutes ago, Alan_Brown...

Yes, the email came this morning. When Alan wrote his post, it was the night before.

It's interesting that the email notes that the Church is "working to make the broadcast available in Spanish and Portuguese." That's really neat if it works out!

Yes... it will be interesting!

And sorry, mkmurray, I don't see the "AM" and "PM" in the post! ^_^

I assume that one reason we were asked to register was so that we could be sent details as to how to connect to the meeting. But it is less than 48 hours away now. Will those connection details be sent soon?

Yes, that is one of the reasons you were asked to register before.

Here are the URLs:

• English: http://www.lds.org/move/index.html?type ... ng=ics_eng
• Portuguese: http://www.lds.org/move/index.html?type ... ng=ics_por
• Spanish: http://www.lds.org/move/index.html?type ... ng=ics_spa

Please tell everyone!

Did I miss something? The only connection I get is to the restoration video. There are no other videos available.

But to get to that video, you have to have a movie plug-in installed. I think that's what they want for now.

jdlessley wrote:Did I miss something? The only connection I get is to the restoration video. There are no other videos available.

If you are looking for the Second Annual Tech Talk, it is scheduled for tomorrow, 6:00 pm Mountain Time.

It does help if you're looking at the right date! I was so excited that I jumped ahead one day.

Haha, you scared me for a minute there!

Less than an hour to go. My watch chimed midnight.

Can the delayed recording, at least the audio, be made available in a cross-platform format? When I tried to join at the start of the broadcast, all I got was this:

It looks like your operating system is not supported. The following operatings systems are supported at this time: ...

Carl Jokl wrote:It is all about Live participation. If I get fired for falling asleep on my desk the next day then so be it.

Carl, are you still employed?