Open Source Friday guide

opensourcespeaker.md

Thank you for agreeing to speak about your project on Open Source Friday! I really appreciate you taking the time to be a part of the discussion, and I’m very excited to hear the discussion. It’s really going to help a lot of folks!

Streaming Guide for Guests

All interviews are streamed live on the GitHub Twitch Channel (using Streamyard) and get edited to live on Youtube as shareable content.

Previous OSF Recordings

Recording Software and equipment:

We will use streamyard to stream on Twitch.

Multiple remote guests will need to have separate mics and headphones to cut down on room noise.

Format:

The stream will be a laid back format:

1. Introduce yourself - 5 minutes
2. What is your project?
3. Demo - 5-10 minutes (What does it do? Do you have an example/hello-world?)
4. What was your motivation for building your project or how did this project started?
5. How can people contribute?
6. What was the last thing you pushed to using GitHub? Or What is the next thing you would like to push?
7. Are there any questions from the audience?

Wrap up questions

• Fave food?
• Fave beyonce song?

Goodbye – whole stream shouldn’t last more than 30-45 minutes

General Interview Guidelines:

Feel free to get specific about your experiences and provide examples on what you're talking about. Also remember the target audience is people interested in programming, but not all experts, so try to define any tech terms, and use less jargon when possible.

Lighting:

There is no requirement here, but please consider lighting. Here's a great article on the importance of lighting and how to setup lighting for you stream/webinar/video.

Hardwired Ethernet is always preferred over wifi

Demo prep

Rejoice - you know your project better than anyone, so you choose what and how to demo!

Some other nice to-dos

• Please clear your browser history and hide your bookmarks bar. (If you use Chrome, you could create a new browser profile).
• Make sure that you are signed in and MFA-ed into the tools you will be using.
• Please turn off notifications (do-not-disturb mode is best).
• Please turn off any browser plugins you wouldn’t want to see in the recording
• Please zoom-in your browser to at least 125%.
• Please switch your screen resolution to 1920:1080
• Select Settings -> General -> Automatically hide and show menu bar.
• Select Settings -> Dock -> Automatically hide and show the Dock.
• Consider making a template repo for the demo, so we can easily repeat it if needed.
• Please wear headphones!
• Enjoy the interview!