Interest in live-stream for showing how to build applications on IPFS?

[victorb]

Hello everyone!

A couple of people have suggested me to have some sort of live-stream walking through how to build a application on top of IPFS from scratch. I would probably start with something basic as a chat-application, and in the future we can move on to more complex things.

The idea is that probably it's a bit easier for people to learn when someone is showing exactly how it's done and also can be a bit more ad-hoc with questions answered in real-time and so on.

How do you feel about this? Would you watch it? Would you like to participate and help out showing how to build applications?

[Mr0grog]

I think this sounds great, and despite what I said on the call, would be happy to help plan or script this as part of our general docs push.

I feel like this also ties in well with ipfs/team-mgmt#573. What if we scheduled this and made it a jumping off point for more calls along those lines? We could pick a few simple app ideas (maybe that build off what we present here) and a few questions from discuss.ipfs.io and end this call by asking for a general feeling on which of those people would like to see next.

/cc @Admin-DataRoads

[Admin-DataRoads]

This is definitely a good thing to try in principle, but may be very difficult to get others to follow along in real time practice. Zoom in particular is tough to coordinate between a live desktop share session and other operational windows, because screen share takes over all the viewer desktops in full screen by default. Did you have another live-stream educational presentation and guidance tool set in mind?

[victorb]

I think they are two different things in practice, and could possibly follow each other (first the live-stream, then a call together).

The idea of the stream I'm suggesting would be pretty one-way except for comments from people, compared to the zoom call which would basically be a Q&A and much more interactive for the participants.

The live-stream would be less of a workshop, and more a way to explain general ideas tied to actual code.

Currently I'm eyeing using livepeer for the stream itself and comments/communication happening via IRC/Matrix.

[pavel-lens]

I would appreciate such live-stream!