Arachne Digital Community Call: A Walkthrough of Thread

[twentysixmoons]

Arachne Digital Community Call: A Walkthrough of Thread

In this Community call, Arachne Digital will provide a walkthrough of the Thread software to do the following:

1. Share how to download & login to the Thread platform
2. Show how to use the Thread platform
3. Provide context and a use case for the platform

Arachne Digital hosts Community calls to:

1. Provide opportunities to build connections with contributors and the larger open-source ecosystem
2. Share information on how the technology and surrounding systems of support work
3. Foster support for Arachne open-source projects and collaborators

📝 Pre-event

It's recommended this occurs 2 weeks prior. These are things to complete before sharing our event publicly

• @twentysixmoons Complete an event brief describing the community call's goal (View it here)
• @twentysixmoons Create an event graphic with the title, time, and date
• @KadeMorton & @jecarr Approvals from Arachne Digital Team

📣 Event Promotion

This should begin around 2-1 weeks before event start.

• @twentysixmoons Create the event invitation link on Eventbrite
• @twentysixmoons Create blog/medium post invitation blog post
• @KadeMorton approval for blog post
• @KadeMorton Create a social post on LinkedIn
• @twentysixmoons Share in Slack
• @twentysixmoons Share in Email
• @twentysixmoons Share on Linkedin
• @twentysixmoons Share in aligned organizations Slacks & Discords

✨ Event Prep

This should be completed 1 week prior to the event star.

• @twentysixmoons Create event slides
• @twentysixmoons Event Reminder
  - [ ] @twentysixmoons Create event feedback form

💫 Post-Event

This should occur up to 1 week after the event ends.

• @twentysixmoons Post recording on Youtube
• @twentysixmoons Share post-event materials to attendees and RSVPd people via email
• @twentysixmoons Post event slides in Github
• @twentysixmoons Post event write up on arachne.digital website
• @twentysixmoons Share overview on LinkedIn

[twentysixmoons]

@KadeMorton I made the above template to help make our processes transparent and replicable for future events. I know we initially discussed the 15/16 of November but can we look at 22/23? This would give me a bit more time to work through some of my backlog and plan more properly for this with promotion.

Also any feedback here is appreciated as it's just the start to templatize things.

Also, also lol is there a place where I might finds graphics to use for the event background images? I think I just screenshotted something from our site or other marketing materials for the last one.

[KadeMorton]

@twentysixmoons Absolutely fine to push it back a little.

For downloading Thread, we might need to get a little video from Jenine as downloading and running locally is a bit of work, I just use the web version. Otherwise happy with the content.

For images, I've shared a the stock images folder with you.

[jecarr]

For downloading Thread, we might need to get a little video from Jenine as downloading and running locally is a bit of work

Yea happy to do that - got a preferred time limit on how long to keep the video to?

[twentysixmoons]

Thanks @KadeMorton for the image access. I was able to use them for this graphic we'll review today:
https://new.express.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:4aabb7ae-a884-59f4-96c8-2a0de4333280?invite=true&promoid=Z2G1FQKR&mv=other

@jecarr I'm working on updating the outline right now and will circle back on this by EOD (my time lol)

[KadeMorton]

@jecarr can we do a video that is less than ten minutes? We've got a max 10 minute slot but as short as we can make it would be ideal. @twentysixmoons also mentioned they can help with video editing.

[twentysixmoons]

The event page is live! Find it here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-source-cyber-security-a-walkthrough-of-thread-tickets-1077688488279?aff=oddtdtcreator

@jecarr, I discussed with @KadeMorton that we have ten minutes for your video. I can help to edit it down if needed. Let me know if this works!

The full planning brief is here for review:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TzFyYBSmH4qCmNk2NGI26mkv5x5R-48DvurTbZknM6o/edit?usp=sharing

[twentysixmoons]

An invitation blog post is available to be published + shared on LinkedIn. Once Posted I'll share in a few channels I'm in:
https://medium.com/@arachnedigital/your-invited-%EF%B8%8F-open-source-cyber-security-a-walkthrough-of-thread-1de3e3968158

[KadeMorton]

@twentysixmoons I've published the post so please spread the word!

[jecarr]

Thanks for the updates - I'll whip something up end of my week and I'll send it to you when it's ready 👍🏾

[twentysixmoons]

Shared on LinkedIn and in these spaces:

• DISARM Slack
• OpenSSF Slack
• Hack for LA Slack
• Open Austin Slack
• Messaged Tech for Good founder to get it placed on their site

[twentysixmoons]

Sent an email to folks who joined our last event or expressed interests in getting emails on our Slack Jotform.

[twentysixmoons]

Working on the slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Zb20RRAmpL_7wqBvhbJcY4OfunG2DXWXyDTs6OSmFyc/edit?usp=drive_link

[twentysixmoons]

@KadeMorton for the event feedback forms, we should do those in Jotform also, right?

[twentysixmoons]

Sent a follow-up email:

Hello 👋🏼.

Thanks for hanging tight for our event follow-up. If you were able to join us, thank you! If you missed out, no worries. We hope we can see you next time or online.

Find our links and resources from the event below 👇🏼:
View the presentation slides + recording on Youtube
Join us on slack
Find us on Github
Threads - The Github repository we covered
Community repository - More about contributing with Arachne
Follow us on Bluesky & LinkedIn

Please reach out here or say hey in Slack if you have any questions.

Missed a few things on our checklist I'll work to get sorted for next time:

• event feedback
• updated process (Youtubing the video takes a little longer and has some nuance I wasn't ready for. I created Youtube settings and video checklist #10 to review this and will need to look over Research Youtube Shorts #7 also.

I'll add a couple of estimated time requirements to each of the checklist sections so I can plan better. As we move forward, it should get faster and more streamlined.

[twentysixmoons]

Making another note here that some sort of metrics and check in process would be helpful for analytics for the post event wrap-up.

Could include:

• number of views of event page
• Number of RSVPs
• Number of attended
• Number of actions taken (joined our slack, responded to/opened an issue, others?)

[KadeMorton]

@twentysixmoons Sorry for the slow response, yes happy for jotforms to be used for event feedback forms. Happy to add whatever metrics you think will be useful.

[twentysixmoons]

Since some time has passed I combined the writeup for this one and and last community call. It's ready for review here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pv49SjwPZBn4P9hGdWzmIo_KGBWt6LrwZ20HZXk9Kbk/edit?usp=sharing

It's written in a way we can share it before the end of December or make slight adjustments for an early January share.

@KadeMorton if you could review it that would be great.

[KadeMorton]

@twentysixmoons I've reviewed and it looks good, happy for this to go up!

[twentysixmoons]

published on Medium:
https://arachnedigital.medium.com/community-call-recap-cyber-security-open-source-and-thread-5d7f6dce366a

Ready to be shared on social then in slack

[KadeMorton]

@twentysixmoons I've scheduled the LinkedIn post, posted on Bluesky and in the community building chat in Slack.