Hello Astro community!
It’s on my task list to make a proposal for what a virtual Astro Conf 2024 could look like… and you can help by answering the following three questions (sample answers provided to get you going) and/or leaving related comments.
QUESTION 1: What content would be interesting to watch?
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<li>traditional “talks” (about general web dev / Astro-related topics, tools, processes?) planned ahead with slides etc.</li>
<li>more interactive Q and A style sessions/panels</li>
<li>“Behind the scenes” stories of/from Astro the project, development, history</li>
<li>“Get to know” team members</li>
<li>Cool stuff built USING (not by!) Astro: more showcase kind of content</li>
<li>“Big name” friends of Astro talking about their use of Astro, or live streaming building things</li>
<li>5 - 7 minute “lightning talks” from the community – anyone (including you!) could submit a talk about anything Astro-related!</li>
</ul>
QUESTION 2: What kind of participation would you want and (BE HONEST) actually do:
<ul>
<li>I would participate in a live chat thread while the event is happening</li>
<li>I would submit questions in advance for panel/Q and A type stuff.</li>
<li>I would submit questions/comments or even RESPONSES to questions in real time, DURING an event</li>
<li>I would chat in smaller breakout rooms</li>
<li>I would “live-tweet” (fediverse, instagram etc.) the event with a hashtag</li>
<li>If there were the option to turn my webcam on and have my face shown in a big “crowd” of attendees while the event was happening (think big zoom call), I would actually turn my web cam on and “participate” by showing my face</li>
<li>I would actually attend, mostly paying attention, from start to finish, and not just catch up on the replay/recording later</li>
</ul>
QUESTION 3: Fill in the blank: If Astro conf were going to do ___ I would for sure cancel any existing plans and make sure I watch!
Of course, feel free to leave any other comments, but these are what I am most interested in right now!
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Astro community seeks input on content and participation preferences for Astro Conf 2024.

Astro Conf???

I would love to see such an event. While I would prefer it in real world (great excuse to meet Elian again 🙃) I understand the limitations and costs of such.
When it comes to talk types - having a mix of all would be the best. From experience - a bit shorter talks are better (max 18 minutes).
I also remember one conference doing a 24h one (so every timezone was treated equally). Another approach was doing a 5 day one, but only taking 2-3h per day.
I would love to participate for sure - as a potential speaker, as a volunteer - whatever - let’s talk 😊

That would be super cool to see.
Think from me personally a mix between many of the proposals would be interesting.
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<li>Would love to hear from other projects using Astro how they tackle certain things.</li>
<li>A QA would be very cool</li>
</ol>
Around the second one,
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<li>Depending on the timing not sure I can do realtime, thus before hand questions might works best, but maybe as addition such a tweet live question could bonus up?</li>
</ol>
For the bonus, would be really cool to get some interesting speakers for which I would definitely attend.

Thanks for posting this! It’s my first time hearing of Astro… Looking at some of code examples it looks like you can implement HTML content in the same way you do in <a href="http://ASP.NET" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">ASP.NET</a> Core partial views but without all of the bloat. Pretty cool.
Just commenting for reach and saying thanks for sharing!

I would recommend short talks around 20 minutes and have the conference focus more on hands on building something from start to finish.