Think of this like a virtual PowerShell User Group, with a lightning-demo format, and room for non-PowerShell-specific content. Eight community members will give a demo each PowerHour.

We'll be streaming on YouTube

We'll add an agenda at least a week ahead of each PowerHour. To find the date and more details:

• Check for the latest Agenda
• Sort for the most recent folder under materials: For example, materials/2018-08-21
• Watch #PSPowerHour on Twitter

Just submit an issue! We need a title, your name, and a brief abstract — that's enough to get started!

Once you fill out an issue, we'll work with you on timing

Anything! Demo a module or function that you wrote, or that you use often. Describe a helpful tip or trick that you think is worth sharing with the audience. This is up to you!

Include info the audience will find helpful:

• What are you talking about?
• How does it work? This is a demo after all!
• Why might the audience use this?
• Where can they find more?

This is up to you! Demo doesn't mean live demo only

• Slides
• Slides with PowerShell on them
• The console
• VS Code
• PowerShell ISE
• Pre-recorded video that you narrate
• Notepad (maybe not)
• Something else

Zoom in so it just fits in the whole screen. Don't be shy.. Bigger is better!

Anything under 10 minutes! Don't try to fill the whole 10 minutes, only show us what we need to see — only have 5 minutes of material? Even better!

Oh. In case it's not clear: it's a hard limit on 10 minutes. If you need more time, consider talking at a local or remote user group!

• We'll work with you in your GitHub issue proposal
• We'll try to give you a two week notice for the session you're scheduled to demo in
• We'll include an order-of-operations so you know your spot in line

• We'll pick the 8 oldest, open proposals (only one talk per person)
• We'll review the timezones of the speakers and work to make sure they're scheduled in the most convenient / sensible way we can manage
• We'll do our best to make sure we won't have duplicate content in the same PSPowerHour.
  • There's tons of value in every speaker's individual take on a topic, but we want to get a good spread of topics each event. Just because a topic has been covered or touched on before doesn't make it a bad topic for a future talk!
• We'll do our best to randomize the order of speakers as much as possible while remaining mindful of and sensitive to timezones.
  • This is to ensure a spread of both speakers and topics, so we don't end up with a cluster of, for example, three related-topic-talks in a row.
  • We're also reserving the right to do a little serendipitous ordering to make demos that are on related topics have a neat flow - so, for example, if one person is talking about 'what is Plaster' that talk goes before the 'tips and tricks for writing Plaster manifests' talk.

• Have your materials ready to present!
• Show up 15 minutes early. We want to get everyone connected and make sure they can share their desktop and audio without issue
• Have fun! Don't be too stressed. It's just a couple minutes, and you'll have other peers joining you

Nope! At least, not live; no time for that. We'll encourage the community to follow up with you via...

• The twitter URL you include
• #powerhour in powershell.slack.com
• The issue for your demo

It would be awesome if you follow up on community questions in one of these spots

We'll certainly be pestering folks, but if you know someone who has something awesome to talk about them, point them here and ask them to submit a proposal!

This part is tough. We'll try to figure something out. Short term, we'll need folks to demo things in person

To clarify — you can record something, and discuss things while playing it during the stream — we just don't have tooling to add an entire pre-recorded demo (speaking and screencap) yet.