Get Started Building and Testing hApps

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Event Checklist

Pre-Show

• Hosts arrive 15 min early for prep.
• Make this event checklist look fresh (and make any revisions that you were meaning to get to but haven’t yet)
• Any Q’s from Discord (???) channel? Recent changes? Add them to The Show agenda below.
• Who is going to open the session? Close?
• Attendees arrive in zoom waiting room.
• Hit Record (cloud recording)
• Then open the room at start time. Get started promptly to establish that as our custom.

The Show

• Welcome + Intro (Greetings in local language / from:”Hola de Argentina”, “Halo dari Indonesia”)
• Links
  • https://developer.holochain.org/get-building/
  • Discord channel (???)
• Ask folks to write questions in the chat (2 minutes)
• Select Questions and Prioritize them (in agenda)
• Agenda
  • [ ]
• Wrap up: Remind participants of upcoming events (share link to events page on Discord):
  • Share invite link to Discord
  • Share link to events channel
  • and (???) channel
  • List of Events and links:
    • Holochain Developer Environment Setup and Support
    • Getting started Building and Testing on Holochain
    • Architecture Your hApp
    • Troubleshooting Your hApp
    • hApp Show and Tell
    • hApp Jam
    • Reimagining X (Quarterly Series)
    • Discord Channel
  • Ask for feedback in chat. Give people 2 minutes to jot down some things in the shared chat:
    What was exciting?
    easy?
    difficult?
    frustrating or confusing?
    Other thoughts?
  • 15 seconds of Chaotic Goodbyes: How do you say Goodbye? “Adios”, “Auf Wiedersehen”, “selamat tinggal”

Post-Show

• Hosts end call, then jump back on (or meet in other channel) for 15 min retrospective.

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Retrospective Template

Make a copy of the below Restrospective Checklist Template, paste it to the bottom of the doc and work on it there)

### Retrospective (Event Date + Hosts)
- [ ] In Retrospective Checklist Title, fill in Event Date + Host Team Names)
- [ ] Wins (celebrate them!) Was it better than last time? 
    * 

#### PAIN POINTS
##### List all the pain points that you can think of. 
* 
    
#### Iterating on the process of hosting this event
- [ ] Are there any pain points regarding this format? Document? Event Marketing? Related processes like Discord spaces, Etc?
    *
#### Basic Info Capture 
- [ ] How many participants?
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- [ ] How many had not successfully installed DevEnv prior to session?
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- [ ] Did anyone come to the session without a basic understanding of Holochain (ex: they hadn't read Core Concepts)
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- [ ] Is there a cloud recording? (paste link here)
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- [ ] Is there a local recording of a breakout? (email to "???@holo.host")
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Event Overview

Target Audience

Anyone interested in building on Holochain that has already set up their Developer Environment.

Audience Requirement

They have already successfully installed the holochain dev environment available at: https://developer.holochain.org/quick-start/

Have read through the documentation in Core Concepts.

Pitch to Audience

Get support learning how to build Holochain applications (hApps) from some of the Holochain Core Team.

Goals

Primary: Eliminate the need for this online meeting! Get the feedback about where people get lost or hit a dead end. Iterating on all documentation, tools, videos etc, so that soon, more people can get started building without any in-person support.

Secondary: Hand hold people through getting familiar with Holochain so that they, as individuals, are prepared to either begin building on their own, or participate in an upcoming Holochain hApp Jam event.

Tertiary: Give new developers another easy entry point into getting started and getting to know others on the team and in the community. Some individuals may attend this event repeatedly.

Event Format

• 1 hour zoom call. (1.5 hours for hosts. Schedule hosts 15 min before until 15 min after)
• Frequency: Once a month (On Tuesday, starting mid-May)
• Tone: Not professional. Casual, but with an agenda.

Session support:

Two Holochain team members most capable of iterating on our tools and onboarding materials regarding building Holochain Apps. MAYBE: One facilitator or additional community member as well.

• Jost
• Gregory
• Matthew / Bear / DevRel / Invited Community Member (facilitator / trainee / backup)

Questions:

How does this interrelate with Community on Discord and Nathan (holding discord space)?

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Event Marketing

PRE-EVENT

• Who is responsible for event marketing, pre-event?
  *
• Publicize in discord events channel, (???) channel and on social media.
  • Ask people to try to download and install the developer environment before the event and come with questions & issues.
  • Encourage people to post questions in the (???) Discord channel prior to the event.
  • Have people sign up for the event (both so we know who they are, but also so that they get a reminder). Hosts should have access to attendee signups, at least estimated number of attendees.

POST-EVENT

• Who is responsible for event marketing, post-event?
  *
• Process Recording(s) and Publish.
• Post link to recording to Discord (???) channel (and to anywhere else?)
• Anything to feed to Paul d'Aoust, Collin or others regarding progress on Get Started Building and Testing hApps, yet?

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Retros

Paste Retrospective Template from above. Can paste newest to the bottom of the doc.

Keep the most recent Retro in full view. Wrap older retros in <details><summary></summary></details> tags with the Date and Hosts in the summary.