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# Content of event

The event will be entirely *virtual* so everything will exist in some kind of online space (recorded videos, live chat thread, live streaming)

## Tech

StreamYard will give us the most flexibility for including both prerecorded and live content. We can pay for a single month ($30 - $300 depending on our needs) as a one-time conference expense.

## Fave ideas

These are things I absolutely want to do.

### 1. Community Lightning talks
- 5 minute Looms (free plan allows for this)
- Can receive unlimited quantity
    - no need for proposal, just make and submit
    - we'll air our favourite ones (if too many to choose all)
    - we'll make the rest available on the site after the fact
- Can be broad in scope
    - demo/announcement of something you've built with Astro
    - personal essay on being a part of Astro
    - how Astro solved a problem
    - how Astro "scratched an itch"
    - speed run of doing something with Astro
    - related topics also appropriate for our audience:
        - mental/physical health strategies for programmers
            - "chair yoga"
            - show off your ergonomic keyboard
            - how to have productive conversations
        - open-source topics
            - giving async code/PR reviews
            - filing kick-ass issues that help the maintainers
        - working remotely
            - how to social with your remote team
            - how to keep focused / not work too much when your laptop is in your living room
        - personal stories
            - how I got into open-source
            - how I started contributing to Astro

### 2. Live chat stream
The most important participatory element of anything happening online

#### Tech/where?
- Ask ViteConf how YouTube livestream was mirrored to Discord?
- Chat in Discord or on YouTube?

#### Moderation
- need people monitoring for conduct/abuse/vibes
- need people seeding the discussion, hyping the crowd
    - prepare with types of questions/statements:
        - What's your top takeaway from this?
        - How will this change how you work/live/plan/behave?
        - "Whoa! So cool! Has anyone ever seen anything like this before?"
- need people to control/run StreamYard
    - play videos
    - invite people to stage
    - coordinate with live speakers in remote locations

### 3. Promotions/Giveaways

- Action-based giveaways/rewards
    - Tweet/post to receive something
    - Vote / respond to receive something
    - Register to receive something
    - Attend to receive something
    - Comment to receive something
    - Answer question correctly to receive something
- Can be in advance (as conf promotion) or during (for conf vibes)
- Can be *everyone* who does X gets Y, or gets entered to win Y
- **Speakers also hold giveaways in advance as promotion to their audiences?**

## Other Ideas


### Cool site showcase
- Can be as simple as reviewing the last year's worth of monthly blog posts and scanning the personal sites sections to choose noteworthy candidates ahead of time
- Can be done live (Astrolicious? hosts?) like community call in small batches (2 - 3 at a time) to add variety
- emphasize on showing off how Astro is used (view transitions, animation, perf, volume/scale of content/data) and/or how Astro "makes the web weird/fun/useful" (e.g. word games built with Astro, GenderSwap)

### From core/maintainers
- "State of Astro" keynote by Fred
    - Where Astro is now, where it's going
    - very high level, motivation-y
- "Astro Internals" / Deep Dive content
    - compiler walk through
    - dev tools walk through (e.g. how Volar is included)
- Contributing Speed Run
    - Set up dev environment
    - create tests
- Workshops (live coding? code-along?)
    - Florian: Astro Integration Kit
    - Martin: View Transitions
    - Ben: Cool Content Collections / DB
- Behind the scenes stories (planned? Q and A?) from Astro Core
    - Maintainer origin stories
    - Description of role/typical day

### From invited/known people
- Big Name Friends
    - talks about their use of Astro
    - live stream building something with Astro

- Panel Discussion
    - topics related to Astro, open-source

- Community Talks from other project maintainers 
    - adding auth with Clerk/Lucia
    - improving performance with Astro Font

- Astronaut Launchpad
    - a dedicated slot for developers to announce / introduce new projects of their own. A bit like a [Nintendo Direct (partner showcase)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9y1AXICddE). 

### From community (can also be known people)

- Showcase of cool things built (submission process?)
    - To show the scale/breadth
    - "Big" sites, unusual sites/apps
    - Similar to lightning talks, but *hosts* speak/review (like community call)
- Community Interviews
    - The Lightning Talk idea/strategy, but conducted as interviews/response to questions
    - Can be done live, recorded with an interviewer, or prerecorded responses to set questions (that either standalone, or can have questions cut into them)

