YouTube

Platform: YouTube was the TEC’s video channel and recorded-call archive

YouTube was the TEC’s video record. In keeping with the community’s commitment to transparency, most community calls and working-group meetings were recorded and published to the channel, alongside educational content, event recordings, and research sessions. For a project that did much of its work in live calls, YouTube is where a large part of that spoken, face-to-face history is preserved.

The channel is public at youtube.com/channel/UCagCOhMqMNU29rWx259-tcg. Recording and uploading was largely stewarded by the Transparency Working Group (see Working Groups), which also mirrored some content to Odysee. Meeting recordings were captured during calls — in some cases via a recording bot (see Bots) — then titled, described, and uploaded.

What the archive captures

The channel is treated as the canonical location for TEC’s public video material: recorded community and working-group calls, educational explainers (token engineering, the Commons Simulator, and related topics), event and workshop recordings, and later Research Hub and publishing sessions. Narrative pages in this archive reference these recordings where they document a decision, an explanation, or an event not captured in text.

Scope and privacy

The recordings were made public by the TEC’s own transparency practice: the Community Covenant established that most community calls were recorded and posted, so participants understood their calls were part of the public record. Because these are already-public videos, individuals may appear or be named within them as originally published; the archive does not alter the source videos. The archive’s Archival Policy on redacting personal names applies to internal working documents, not to content the TEC itself published publicly. Private or unpublished recordings are out of scope.