Four hours of tape and nineteen willing people is a coordination problem, not a transcription problem. The tape is the easy part.
What goes wrong
Two people quietly transcribe the same twenty minutes. Nobody finds out until the segments are stitched together, and one of them did an evening for nothing.
Whoever is coordinating spends the sprint assigning timestamps over chat, which is both the least skilled and the most blocking job in the room.
A distributed sprint has people starting at midnight in another timezone. They should not have to wait for a coordinator to wake up and give them a chunk.
What the list looks like
Hearing transcript — volunteer sprint
One item per line, pasted from wherever you keep them. That paste is the entire setup — there is no project to configure.
How it runs
Claiming 01:20:00–01:40:00 removes it for everybody else at that instant, so the duplicate work simply cannot start.
Distribution keeps working while the organizer sleeps. That is the point of taking the coordinator out of the middle.
Put the review and the glossary on the same board as the transcription. Same mechanic, and the second pass gets picked up without a second tool.
A segment can be claimed and still in progress. The bar shows finished work, so the progress number means what it says.
Small enough that one person finishes it in a sitting — twenty minutes of audio is a common size. Chunks people cannot finish are the ones that sit claimed for days.
Wherever they live now — a drive, a repo, a folder of links. An item is a label pointing at work, not a file store; nothing is uploaded here.
Yes, and most sprints do. Add the review items when the first pass is far enough along, and they appear on everybody's board straight away.
Close to this
Issues #2291–#2310
Registration desk — Sat 08:00–10:00
Grocery run — Eastside, 4 households
Seven jobs, one shape
You get two links: one to share, one to run it with. No email, no account, nothing to confirm. How it works.