#call for speakers - gleam discord virtual meetup

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bright thistle
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Hey folks! I’m in the process of trying to plan what will be the first gleam virtual meetup on discord!

This is an open call to anyone who thinks they’d like to present something gleam-related lucy

Details are still being ironed out and will depend on availability/speaker schedules, I was hoping for the first iteration of this to be in mid-late August.

These types of meetups will be ad-hoc to start but if we get enough momentum I’d consider making them semi-regular eventually.

Please respond in this thread or DM me if this kind of thing interests you, and hit this with a lucyglow if you’d want to attend as a viewer so I can gauge interest espeon

tranquil jungle
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Is there any particular target length for talks, or is just 'however long it takes to discuss [project]'?

bright thistle
rose bear
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I could do a shorter version of my
Code beam talk!

wicked dragon
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I don't mind dong a talk. Not sure on what, but I'll find something

cinder canyon
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I was hoping for the first iteration of this to be in mid-late August.
just fyi we are having an irl meetup on the 28th (:

native cave
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This is a lovely idea and so eco-cheap on not-flying-around-the-planet ❤️

full umbra
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We can make a discord event for it and share it on social media once we have a date

bright thistle
bright thistle
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@rose bear @wicked dragon that would be awesome! lmk if you need any help 😄

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@tranquil jungle were you asking cause youre considering giving a talk? I know youve been working on some cool stuff lately 👀

wicked dragon
bright thistle
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um

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well let me know when youve got a topic at least 😅

wicked dragon
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Isn't that how all the great speakers do it?

bright thistle
cinder canyon
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Its a low stakes meetup if you dont want to speak you dont have to 😂

wicked dragon
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Ofc I'm gonna speak lol blabbing is literally my only skill in life

tranquil jungle
foggy tundra
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I will prepare something lucy related for mid September, so definitely interested in speaking/helping if this is going to be a recurring event.

bright thistle
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i'll be in China for most of September

foggy tundra
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oh neat! October would be perfect I think 🙂

bright thistle
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It’s August 1st today folks, i was thinking, to maximize timezone overlap i could do a weekend afternoon my time so mid/late -evening for the Europeans and late morning for the west coasters

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@tranquil jungle @wicked dragon you still interested in giving some talks? (I’ll poke jak in a bit he’s streaming rn)

wicked dragon
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Oui, what date?

cerulean charm
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Oh this sounds great! Hopefully I can have something fun to show off

bright thistle
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I was thinking the weekends of August 24/25 or August 31/1 depending on what day most are free

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A weekday would be nice except virtually impossible due to timezones and work

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Im leaning towards Aug 31st but I’m open to hearing opinions otherwise

cerulean charm
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I would most definitely prefer the 31st. I am working at a makerspace event on the 24th

wicked dragon
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I have no preference

bright thistle
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I want to set a deadline for speaker confirmations (topic & time) by 2 weeks before? That would mean Aug 17th

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Not saying you have to write the whole thing before then but I need something concrete to organize around 😂

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As for the actual meetup itself I’m thinking it would start at 2 pm my time (eastern), That would be 11 am on the west coast, 7pm UK, 8pm Central European time

rose bear
bright thistle
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If there’s too much interest (the dream scenario) maybe we’ll have some people go for the October one

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If you want to do a 45 min talk maybe we make that its own event 😛

bright thistle
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@drifting tusk @rose bear @wicked dragon are you able to confirm that you want to speak / have a topic locked down

wicked dragon
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Yes, still down to do a talk depending on event timings

cinder canyon
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timings are 6 messages above

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😄

wicked dragon
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I am blind and missed that, but also in my head timings include dates. Do we have anything set yet?

cinder canyon
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31st

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😄

wicked dragon
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"leaning towards" != "event will be on"

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Either way it should be fine, I think

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Actually, sorry to be a pain in the ass @bright thistle, but I'm gonna pull out. I'll do the next one, but I'm about to quit my job so it's gonna be a hectic couple weeks and an extra thing to think about will just end up in me doing a shit talk. Unless people are happy for me to rehash video stuff, then it's less work and I'm down

bright thistle
wicked dragon
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Sorry sorry 🙇🏻‍♂️

bright thistle
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But yeah sorry maybe I wasn’t clear, I’ll lay it out:

the plan was/is for this to be the 31st, at some time in the early/middle of the afternoon for me (EST) so that both Europeans and west coasters could attend
(I was thinking 2pm my time so 11am west coast, 7pm uk and 8pm Central Europe)

I worded it like that earlier in case anyone who wanted to speak had a scheduling conflict and a different day worked better

cerulean charm
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I should probably show off my wasm encoder/decoder

cinder canyon
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yeah!

bright thistle
cerulean charm
plucky goblet
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ohh, i hadnt seen this thread before, this sounds fun

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maybe im qualified to say some things due to glistix? 😛

bright thistle
bright thistle
plucky goblet
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sounds epic

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i could talk a bit about the experience of writing a gleam target, and perhaps briefly hint at the future plans for glistix

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regarding duration, i think around 10-15 min would work

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though i have nothing planned in this regard, having this idea just now :p

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i'd be willing to go forward with it though

bright thistle
cerulean charm
rose bear
bright thistle
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Not sure how long the meetup is going to run for,
Rn it’s looking like we’ve got at least 4 speakers?

  • @cinder canyon: lustre server components
  • @plucky goblet glistix
  • @cerulean charm wasm validator
  • @rose bear TBD

Probably wanna give a small buffer of a few mins between talks

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Would it be reasonable to impose a 15 min limit for each talk?

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@cerulean charm would you be willing to do 15 rather than 30?

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Can someone confirm that this didn’t totally mess up the time zones

solid isle
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timezone is perfect. 11am pacific

bright thistle
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Awesome

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Discord didn’t make it super clear when I was making the event so I assume it figured out my time zone

spare hazel
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(that might be two hours later)

bright thistle
cerulean charm
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15 minutes is fine

rose bear
digital zealot
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Cool that you organize this!
I expressed interest, though I probably won't be able join.
To be a bit pedantic: we had a virtual discord meetup without presentations a while ago. Organized by @spare hazel. That makes this the 2nd one, IMHO.

bright thistle
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ah that's good to know! @digital zealot i've update the description to be more accurate 😄

Welcome to the first in a series of regularly-scheduled gleam virtual meetups!

cerulean charm
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I actually finished my encoder and decoder last night

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So I'll be very excited to share my stuff today!

full umbra
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I think I’m gunna be on a coach when this is on 😭

bright thistle
cerulean charm
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I won't be able to tell you directly via the presentation, which is why I wanted to say it here.

full umbra
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Thank you, that’s so nice

bright thistle
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If you’re on a coach you can still tune in and listen on your phone tho I dunno how realistic that is

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We’ll just have to try to make it work next time 🙂

full umbra
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Is anyone recording?

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Could be nice to put it on YouTube for folks who can’t make it

bright thistle
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Don’t think so 🤔 at least not this one. I wouldn’t know where to begin on setting that up

cerulean charm
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I'll go take a look and see

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@bright thistle You can probably use OBS

cinder canyon
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I'm probably going to be really annoying and renege on tonight 😅 i didn't sleep very well and tbh im not feeling very social 🫠 you can guarantee me for the next one as penance 🥺

bright thistle
cinder canyon
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let's be honest it'd be nice to hear about something other than lustre anyway 💀

spare hazel
bright thistle
bright thistle
spare hazel
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(one option that's worked well in the past is recording just the talks, and then no-recording hang out time)

full umbra
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I feel like discord should have this feature and not mini games

bright thistle
plucky goblet
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i cant really see the problem in recording the talks themselves (as long as the speaker is ok with it), since only the speaker would be present in the recording in principle (unless people interrupt or ask questions etc. on their own account)

but after the talk is done i agree it could be nice to not record so people are encouraged to participate and hang out

bright thistle
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Yeah that’s fair, that’ll likely be what we do if we can figure it out for future iterations of this

spare hazel
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(one positive of Zoom is that is has a call-wide announcement and icon saying that recording is happening, OBS would be silent and invisible)

cinder canyon
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stages only permit selected speakers, its not a group call

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also agree with rob that i dont think hashing this out right now is all that productive anyway 😅

plucky goblet
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i guess that makes hang out harder though

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but anyway

bright thistle
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This is all part of figuring out the format with this first trial meetup 🤷‍♂️

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I apologize ahead of time if my voice is annoying to anyone 😂

cerulean charm
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Anyone who wants to hang out before the meetup, I'm chilling in the voice chat

rose bear
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It starts at 20, right?

cinder canyon
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yes

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discord tells you when it starts in your timezone just check the event

cerulean charm
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It's 2 pm over here across the pond

rose bear
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Ah great

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I had the great idea of going to a water park and I desperately need a shower so I’ll probably have a wet hair look 💀

spare hazel
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(doesn't work for a water park, mind you)

plucky goblet
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is audio only (with screen share) ok for speakers?

bright thistle
bright thistle
plucky goblet
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btw @bright thistle due to some irl stuff i might join about 15 min late, if it's my turn and i take too long feel free to let someone go ahead of me

bright thistle
bright thistle
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@rose bear @cerulean charm which of you feels like going first?

cerulean charm
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I'm mostly unprepared, flying by the seat of my pants. I may as well go first 😂

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but my WSL will not load

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Let me see what I can do

bright thistle
cerulean charm
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Are we going on the "stage" channel? or just in the general voice chat?

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Of course. 10 minutes before the start, WSL decides to be a pain X.X

bright thistle
rose bear
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I can go first if no one wants to

bright thistle
rose bear
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Ok!

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Also I think it would be worth it to publicise this in general!