Go Meetup Pillar Program

[cassandraoid]

• Address the camera + live-streaming issues
• Figure out who the Pillar Cities are
• Test Pillar cities live-streaming capabilities
• Create a web page (could pull data from meetup.com?)
• Announce the Pillar meetups in a blog post

[jboursiquot]

What is the definition for a "pillar" meetup? Is it based on number of regular attendees and/or other factors?

[corylanou]

The live streaming will be the biggest challenge for sure. Mostly because it's hard to get an answer of what is adequate equipment to get the job done. Almost anywhere I've done a meetup, the bandwidth isn't an issue. But live streaming also goes beyond just equipment. To do it really well, you almost need a dedicated person to make sure that:

• You can share the presenter screen (videoing the projection doesn't work)
• Have a Picture-in-Picture of the presenter
• Mic the presenter
• Mic the audience (or make sure the presenter repeats the question).
• Respond to live questions.

I think if we can figure out the right recipe for success between both how the live streaming is to be done, as well as equipment, finding sponsors to actually purchase the equipment would be possible as well. Personally, I would love to see more meetups getting dedicated equipment to do more live streaming.

The other side of this would be the recording of it so that it could be posted to a channel for later consumption. I've found that more people will watch it after it's recorded than when it was live.

This list is a good start for finding pillar meetups: https://www.meetup.com/topics/golang/all/, but you have to remove all the general technology and docker groups to find the actual go meetups.

[raykrueger]

Maybe I'm missing this somewhere, and if so I apologize. I'll second @jboursiquot's question. Can we define what this program is somewhere?