Chairmanship
The whole day as a list: planned, actual, how many minutes the program is behind and where each brother already is. Whoever runs the program sees the program.
Conventions and assemblies
Six departments. One program.
Audio, video, stage, makeup, chairmanship and the speaker, all looking at the same clock and the same program. Everything runs from one laptop in the hall, with no internet.
- 3 daysof regional convention, no incidents
- 6 screensone per department, on everyone’s phone
- 0 internetthe laptop creates its own network
Speaker
Talk no. 303:20
Video · Director
Next
Done Image 1 — family on the porchImage · 1 of 5
Makeup
09:40
Paulo S.Talk no. 1 in the hall
✓ Makeup done Audio · Timekeeper
Talk no. 303:20
PauseReset
Stage
11:15Speaker 18 min
André M.North Congregation · Talk no. 3
EntersLeft
ExitsRight
Chairmanship
Program 5 min behindTalk no. 3 started +5 min
Arrived 8/11 Makeup 6/11 Stage 5/11
Departments
Each department opens its own screen.
One address, read from a QR code. Each device picks its department once, and everyone reads the same program and the same clock.
Audio
The timekeeper picks the part, starts, pauses. One per server, and the real time of every talk is recorded without paper.
Video
The director calls the cue list of each talk, in the order it goes on screen: image, video, text, back to the speaker. Only they tick; the stage sees.
Stage
The card for each assignment: who enters, from where, the video, the guide’s note. Arrival check-in and the directory with WhatsApp.
Makeup
Who is coming, at what time, and the chair checklist. Knows who is already in the hall without asking anyone.
Speaker
The full-screen countdown at the lectern. White, orange when a few minutes are left, red when time is up. Nothing else.
No internet
Built for a hall with no signal.
No internet, on purpose
The laptop creates the hall’s network. Nothing depends on signal, carrier or the venue’s Wi-Fi.
Joining is scanning a QR
The panel shows the network address. Each phone scans it, picks a role and is in.
One file if everything fails
The whole app fits in one HTML file that opens from a USB stick, with the program inside. It is the last resort, and it exists.
How it works
From the site to the hall, and back.
The site is where you prepare. The hall is where it runs. The two talk through a file, because on the day there is no internet.
- 1Register the event on the site
You get the year’s program already transcribed. Fill in names, phones, entrances and exits, and the video team writes the cue lists.
- 2Download to a USB stick
Three files: the Zion server for the laptop, the event’s data package and the offline emergency app.
- 3Open it in the hall
The server asks for the package the first time, creates the network and shows the QR. Each phone joins and picks its screen.
- 4Bring it back
What the team corrected during the event comes out as a file. The site shows what changed and you choose what stays.
Request access
Zion has no open sign-up.
It goes to the people who will actually use it: whoever is responsible for the program of a convention or assembly, who then invites the departments. Leave your request here and confirm by email. The invitation arrives within two days.
- One event per request. You name the team later, inside the app.
- The confirmation email must come from your jwpub account. That is how we know who is asking.
- No cost and no advertising.