Love and Animal Crossing in the Time of Covid-19
summary
A virtual DevOps event gets built from scratch in under 30 days, launched April 1 with 100 registrations on day one and finishes with ~8,000 unique Twitch viewers and ~11,000 total viewers; production uses OBS, Twitch and the Animal Crossing camera plus picture-in-picture slides, live Zoom rooms for speaker presence, and a Discord server for community-led watch parties. Lessons include the need for moderated interactive segments, willingness to experiment, and thinking in Pace layering terms about audience and infrastructure.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 1:05How we got here
- 2:58Deserted Island DevOps begins
- 5:53How the event worked
- 7:02Explaining pace layering
- 10:25DevRel in a new normal
- 11:10Lessons learned from the event
- 13:28Community and watch parties
- 16:39Why trying new things matters
- 17:45Live interaction with speakers
- 19:12What changes and what stays
- 20:17Accessibility in virtual events
- 21:24Summary and thanks
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