Communities for Future
Online Summit
Our Response to the Climate Emergency
February 1-10, 2020

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Videos will be released three a day, once a day, for the whole 10 days of the conference for a total of 30 speakers.  Links to access daily videos will be sent to your by email as you register for the Summit (including the links to the videos active for that day even if you sign up after they are emailed to those already registered.)

Videos sent each day will be available to view for a full day, regardless of your timezone, but will be posted each day in Europe at 9am GMT (therefore someone watching in Australia, for example, will be able to see the videos from the evening of the day they are posted all the way through the following day). You can view dates of the individual interviews and the schedule of the congress here: https://summit2020.ecovillage.org/power-of-community-summit-final-schedule/

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Yes, participation is completely free! The videos will be published during the congress period ( Feb 1-10, 2020) in blocks of  3 videos each day for anyone who has logged in. We inform you about the sequence of unlocking of the videos via email (by  [email protected]). At the end of the Summit, you will be able to purchase all the interviews in a package (see next question)

If you also want to watch the videos after the Summit at any time, you can buy the entire Power of Community Summit package here: summit.ecovillage.org/summit-package

The summit package includes:

• Access to a “members area” where you will find all the Summit materials
• All videos (as they are completed)
• Downloads in digital video and audio formats
• Summaries and chapter links for the summaries (similar to what you see during the summit)
• Bonus materials.

Your data are secure with us!  UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES will we pass your data from our email program, ActiveCampaign, to third parties. We try to communicate as directly as possible with our participants – the most efficient is still email! If you no longer want to be on our “list” you can leave at any time with just a click.

No. The full interviews with the experts are exclusively available at Communities for Future Online Summit  or in the Summit package.

• Once you downloaded the package you need a program to “unzip“ it – usually this is a standard program on your computer – PC (WinZip) or Apple (Archiv) – in case you don’t have it on your computer, we recommend 7-ZIP (for Windows) or Stuffit Expander (Mac)
• After the download and unzipping you can use iTunes (our recommendation for Macs) or VLC media player (our recommendation for Windows or Linux) to watch the videos & MP3s without any complications.

Please note that we cannot offer any guarantee or installation assistance for the browsers or the software mentioned here for to play the file formats (MP3, MP4 and PDF). We assume that you have basic computer skills with the use of our platforms and that you can install the proposed programs independently.

All the interviews will be in English. We don’t have the capacity to translate the interviews for this Summit but appreciate all the offers of translation for a future Summit. If you need to translate the interviews to your local language in a Hub or live viewing event, you may need to pause briefly during the screening to translate to your audience.