Scala Love conference attendee instructions

TLDR

Dear participants, to enjoy the conference make sure you…

1. Register on Eventbrite.
2. Join our Slack and check out our channels #talks, #hallway, #support.
3. Join #Harmony track by JetBrains
4. Join Zoom. Main track, Q&A room, and hallway track links will be shared with the registered attendees via email.
5. Follow Twitch channels scalalove and scalalove2 for live streaming
6. Check out our website.
7. Enjoy the conference! <3
8. Feel out the feedback form.

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More details

1 Registration

• This event is free but we do require registration. Go to https://scalaloveconf.eventbrite.com) and grab your ticket.

2 Slack

• General news about the conference will be posted on #general channel.
• The #talks channel. Talks discussions and announcements. We suggest "threading" discussions. Threads keep discussions in Slack organized. They let you ask questions, add context, or give feedback on a specific message, all without disrupting the conversation's flow.
  
• The #support channel is dedicated to troubleshooting and resolving any technical issues you might be having
• The #incidents channel is for reporting violations of the conference's code of conduct. Reporting can be done anonymously by prefixing your message with /anon or by privately messaging a conference organizer.
  

3 Video

• Speakers deliver talks in the Zoom webinar mode.

• Participants can join the webinar at any time to see the talks. Best setup we've found so far is the split mode
  

• We kindly ask attendees to post questions and comments to the Q&A session available on Zoom:
  

• Track owners will also check Slack channels, but it would help us a lot if we can keep all questions inside Zoom's Q&A.

• Track owners will read the questions after the talk. However, it is up to the speaker's discretion whether to answer the questions during the session as well.

• After each talk, the speaker will be available for chatting in a special Q&A room (breakout room) where attendees can talk directly with the speaker in order to dive deeper and learn more about a particular facet if they want.
  

• Offline conferences do have a hallway track, and we decided to facilitate that too! The room for hallway chatting will be available on Zoom (another breakout room)

• After the conference, video recordings of the talks will be available on Youtube.

4 The network is the most critical part

• Use the best Internet connection you can - if possible use wire (bananas and lenses 😄)

• Update Your Router

• Enable WME/WMM (yours might look different but the important keyword is QoS)
  

• Configure Zoom as a Priority Application (ports 8801-8810)
  

• Go dual-band: 2.4 GHz band (the more common of the two, which is prone to interference from other devices) and the 5 GHz band.

• Avoid other activities that will steal bandwidth. Don't start other bandwidth-intensive activities just before, or during, a Zoom meeting. On your Zoom device—and as much as possible, on other computers and devices that share your Internet connection—avoid:

  • large downloads
  • large uploads
  • streaming video (e.g. Netflix, Hulu, YouTube)
  • cloud backups (e.g. Carbonite, CrashPlan)
  • cloud file synchronizations (e.g. OneDrive, Dropbox)
  • other high-bandwidth activities