# Discussion about RSH at Nordic-RSE unconference

With Anne and Richard and soon hopefully others we are running the [Research Software Hour](https://researchsoftwarehour.github.io/) Twitch stream. This is fun and I believe we have a number of very useful recordings but we would like to make it more useful to the community and also reach a wider community, both as watchers but also as contributors.

In this discussion session we could collect ideas on what to improve in format and announcement and also discuss how we can involve more people to contribute, share, and discuss on stream with us.

## Questions to get us started

- What is something (tool, technique) that you use now which you wish you started earlier?
- What do you know now that you wish you saw earlier?
- Are you using pair programming and mentoring in your group/work?
- Have you ever watched somebody programming or solving some problem on stream? What aspect did you enjoy most?
- If you are streaming or recording, can you share lessons learned and good practices?
- Would it be useful to work on a real problem without preparation on stream? Risk: it might not work or might be "boring".
- Maybe actually record some programming sessions and give a commented version of an (in your opinion) interesting session :+1:
- Do it less often, but better structured. Having themes?

## Quick overview over the format and past topics

- We stream on Twitch, but also place recordings on YouTube
- 1 hour session (sometimes we go a bit overtime)
- Typically 5-20 live watchers
- We have experimented both with mixing different topics in one show or focus on one topic
- Past topics: https://researchsoftwarehour.github.io/
- Discussion (3 people but we also had guests), demo

## Problems we can improve

- Outreach
- Announce and fix session enough in advance
- Thursday evening perhaps not ideal time (is there a better time? should we change times every show?)
- We would like to work together with guests on solving some problem or pair-programming
but unsure how to convince people to share unfinished code which we can constructively review

## How a result of this discussion could look like

- Strategies for advertising
- Suggestions for how to get people involved in contributing/appearing on stream
- Suggestions for topics to discuss/demo
- Suggestions for improving the format

## Suggestions/comments

- Clarify/specify target audience
- Going through lesson material together and co-instructing, discussing
- Sharing software development on Twitch/YouTube
- Check out "bisqwit" on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/Bisqwit/about)
- A TIL but demonstrated online
- Session on everyone explaining the work from home setup: how they ssh, terminal setup, remote work
- Short 10 second video about the show to motivate audience for short attention span engagement
- Twitch has its own clip feature for short clips
- https://www.descript.com/transcription to transcribe but also to create clip from a video based on a text section
- Maybe an episode on RSE Stories podcast?
- One RSH show done in podcast format? and co-produced to cross-advertize both podcast and stream.
- Experiment with Discord, where you can have voice rooms
- [ohyay](https://ohyay.co/) is another option for online streams. See a writeup by Stanford professor doing oinline teaching last year: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~kayvonf/notes/virtualclassroom/
- A flyer to be placed in physical spaces (like science depts at universities)
- Topic idea: how to setup your research software development IDE

## Suggestion for a better name?

- Maybe something like "Code code with me" or "Come learn with me"
- "Software breaking hour"
- "What's Up with Research Software?"
- "F1" (pronounced fun, but a nod to the F1 button)