Episode 2!

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+# Live Show Notes, 28 Jan 2021
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+Present: Valériane Venance (@valeriane_IT), Dan Maher (@phrawzty), Joe Nash (@jna_sh)
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+Notes: Ramón Huidobro (@hola_soy_milk)
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+Recording: TBD
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+## Events in the Time Of COVID
+- New formats being created
+- How the difference in terms of event-feel makes it tricky to apply the same terms to events
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+## Stage fright
+- Nobody likes to feel foolish, like they're letting folks down
+- By worrying about this, you're letting yourself down
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+## Running hackathons remotely
+- Sponsor promotions at virtual hackathons have shown to be more popular than in physical ones
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+## Events in a post-COVID world
+- Virtual events cannot recreate the feeling of offline ones
+- Once we stop pretending they can, we can get more value out of them
+- Being able to reach for people is a huge benefit
+- Prediction: Hyper-local events are going to be huge again like in the past
+- Hyper-local events might risk a fragmentation in experience organising these
+- Local events will need sponsoring, too
+- This could be trickier with slower financing systems, a riskier coin toss
+- It's easier to get a goodwill going with a smaller group
+- Maybe this is part of a cycle, and conferences will be gone/less present for a while before coming back again
+- What can we do/are we doing to get the cycle back (safely)
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+## Online speaking engagements
+- Spending less time on talks, less spent on logistics, travel
+- Sometimes, the shorter the talk, the more prep is needed
+- Affecting folks differently
+- Spending more time on engagement
+- Being able to hop quickly between speaking and back to in-work meetings is easier remotely
+- More opportunities for folks to do public speaking
+- There may be a split in folks who can do online speaking but would for example prefer not to travel
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+## Dynamics of virtual events
+- How has events being online affected speakers sticking around and engaging after their talk?
+- Being at home leading up to the event feels different from being there in person
+- Creating relationships at online events is impacted
+- Events like [All Day Devops](https://www.alldaydevops.com/) have for several years been virtual
+- Events like [re:invent](https://reinvent.awsevents.com/) would have a different purpose
+- Experiences are much easier: Relationships are a lot harder
+- Sponsorship outcomes are impacted
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+## Platforms
+- Each have their tradeoffs
+- Some have their purpose, others are more generic
+- At offline events, fundamentals are the same: Attention will be on a person, slides will be involved, then attention will move onto someone else
+- Virtual ones are heavily affected by the platform, dependent on the goal 
+- Trying things out, like [April fools day in the Riot Games API](https://www.riotgames.com/en/DevRel/af-recap#author) can have big effects
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