Stream News! Week of 10/1/19
Tags: news, twitch, streaming, productivity
Published: 2019-10-02 04:29:46

Hey everyone! Welcome to the first in a series of news segments we'll be streaming (and then recapping) every week on Twitch.

Here's the VOD for the stream (feel free to watch while it's still available), followed by a summary of what we chatted about.


💜 Follow ⇒ [@NinjaBunny9000 on Twitch](https://twitch.tv/ninjabunny9000)
🔴 Watch ⇒ [Twitch VOD (replay)](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/488640297)

## 📢 TwitchCon Recap
- The con was A-MAZING!
- Highest colored-hair to natural hair-color ratio I've ever witnessed (even more than raves!)
- The Live Coders dinner was RAD!
  - We got our [Team Jerseys](https://customesports.com/product/official-live-coders-jersey/), backpack, buttons, & a sweet charger
  - Big thanks to [Content Lab](https://contentlab.io) for sponsoring and supporting our team!
  - Team Jerseys are finally available for public sale! [Customize your own Live Coders jersey!](https://customesports.com/product/official-live-coders-jersey/)
- The TwitchDev Mixer was DOPE!
  - Met so many other amazing contributers and Live Coders
  - Got moooooore swag
  - Played dearts w/@_clarkio
- Got lots of swag (including a silent shaker bottle!)
- Lots of potential partnership opportunities, will share more soon!
- Learned what was causing the audio glitches during IRL streams!
  - Special shoutout/thanks to [UnlimitedIRL](https://www.unlimitedirl.com) for helping troubleshoot & providing a great service and hardware for us IRL streamer nerds.

## 📢 Weekly Schedule Improvements!
- Schedule going out every Monday (~9am PDT) on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ninjabunny9000)
- Will be pinned for ez reference
- Schedule adjustments will be posted in the tweet thread
- Next stream's info will be posted in stream descriptions after every stream like this:
![stream title](https://i.imgur.com/YGjhimQ.png)

## 📢 Defining Stream Format a Little Better
- Discovering and honing in the stream "brand" (I know, I hate that word too...) has gotten a little easier but it still hasn't been very consistent or explicit.
- We have more of a foothold now on the content direction, and I'm enjoying streaming it a ton. It's time to make it a little more official and explicitly defined.

### Introducing some... "Segments"?
This is going to be the general format of things, altho it may change week to week, depending on my work/travel schedule.. But that'll all be a part of what gets posted every Monday on Twitter (the official weekly schedule).

Mondays ⇒ Channel News & Chat
Tuesdays/Thursdays ⇒ Code & C H I L L
Saturdays ⇒ Code & G A M E S (or music)

## 📢 Creating a Community Pledge
We talked about the idea of creating a community pledge or oath. Some sort of mechanism for positive-reinforcement to enable the community to `BE EXCELLENT` and avoid toxicity.

The main goal of this is to create a skeleton for other communities to modify and use. I want to avoid having a set of "rules", and for it to all be voluntary. 

Not sure of the best name for it.. Maybe `Community Tenets`???


## 📢 Next TwitchCon
- Try and raise money to send a couple of the mods to TwitchCon

## What's next for the stream?
- Get raids working again! This was the #1 commented on content from other streamers and community members. They really miss it (and I do too!).

## 📢 Dev.to Content
- Will be writing news, tutorial, op-ed content on dev.to from now on! 

## 📢 YouTube Channel Launch
- First series planned, details will be announced soon!
- Will coincide with Dev.to writeups
- Major focuses of the channel will be...
  - Streaming tips & tech tutorials
  - Python & programming tutorials
  - How to get started live coding