Potzblitz

Concept for a weekly Lightning talk while the world is in lockdown.

Title

Potzblitz! - The weekly Lightning talk

Time

Every Sunday night at 8 pm GMT+2 Berlin check your local time]

Duration

60-120 minutes

Target group

Bitcoin and Lightning Network developers, power users and enthusiasts

Goal

Creating a sense of community, updating the community on the latest developments and giving creators a platform to showcase their project

Format

• Short introduction by the regular host
• detailed talk by the weekly guest
• interview of the weekly guest by a weekly moderator
• Q&A moderated by weekly moderator and answered by guest, regular host adds comments and monitors questions

After the stream, the Jitsi room could be announced publicly so viewers can hangout together and chat with host, guest and moderator (not recorded)

Technical setup

Small Jitsi room with 3-5 participants (regular host, guest, moderator) YouTube stream Second Jitsi room for community hangout to watch and comment the stream together

Engagement

• Twitter
• YouTube stream comments
• Jitsi hangout
• Mattermost