Investigate Video and Voice Communications

[albendz]

In addition to newsletters and blog posts, we can look into using voice chats, like Discord, or video streaming, like Twitch, for remote devchats, code-alongs, presentations, etc.

These could also intersect with chapter specific events where chapters can stream their PyLadies talk nights.

This issue can be resolved when:

• We've decided if we want to invest in this type of communication
• We have some engagement from chapter leads to participate (if we decide we want to do that)
• We've decided what platforms we will use
• We've listed what types of content we'd like to produce

Follow up issues which may be resolved as we work on other media such as blogs and newsletters:

• Account management
• Content review and publishing workflow

[albendz]

Something I've seen occurring are remote book clubs where people jump on a call and discuss. An example for Javascript: https://dev.to/madisonkanna/join-our-javascript-book-club-l4k

I'm in that discord group but the tricky part is that it's very similar to slack aside from the focus on voice calls.

[albendz]

We already have some Youtube Channels: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pyladies&sp=EgIQAg%253D%253D

That's probably the best thing to invest in for video comms since we're already using it. This channel might be a good reference since it is a fully remote community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyVogtilYlp1B1ZeFdnmDxQ

Some follow up items to create issue for:

1. Do we want to create a global PyLadies Youtube Channel or just host a directory
2. How do we want to integrate Youtube channels and slack channels for community engagement. We could also have a youtube channel where all new videos go.
3. We'll need guidelines on what we want in videos, what types of things to record, who can be in the videos, what we want to do for livecasts, public/private, credits, video removal, etc.

An open question: Do we already have a global Pyladies Youtube channel @lorenanicole ? It doesn't look like we do. I tried searching for references to it in the Pyladies project and nothing like a global channel came up.

[albendz]

We already have a youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfW2SBqLpcfXS1c3_1ZOoxw

Closing since we now have the youtube channel.