One of my favorite events at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is the community lightning demos. It’s a fun format:

For the audience:

Fast paced (max 10 minutes)

Many speakers

Topic or speaker not what you’re looking for? They’ll change in a few minutes

Demos offer enough material to give you ideas and point out where to learn more

Content is more likely to have a high signal-to-noise ratio given the time constraints

For the speakers:

No need to come up with a full length session and the content behind it

It can be comforting knowing you have a bunch of peers joining you

You can get enough info to the audience for them to get excited and want to learn more

You get a platform to share something awesome with the PowerShell community

So! This isn’t about the summit. We’re starting a new thing, PowerHour: An Hour of Community Lightning Demos.

PowerHour

PowerHour will be like a virtual PowerShell User Group, with a lightning demo format, and leeway for other topics not directly related to PowerShell.

This adds some more fun:

No need to stand on stage (yet!), with Jeffrey Snover sitting right in front of you

Folks reviewing CFPs for the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit will likely see these… You could give a condensed demo of a CFP topic, or just showcase something cool to give us an idea of how you prepare and present

More time! We always run short on time at the summit; we’ll hold these on a regular basis to give more folks a chance to show something fun!

Everything is recorded

So! Where can you go to find out more?

Proposals, FAQs, materials, links to demos, agendas, and more will be available at the PSPowerHour GitHub repo

Demos and live stream at PSPowerHour YouTube channel

When does it start?

Our first session is scheduled for Tuesday August 21st @ 6:00 PM EST!

If you want to propose a demo, just submit an issue! We’ll work on timing for your demo from there

We need more proposals, but Doug Finke, Chrissy LeMaire, and Glenn Sarti (if he can wake up early enough!) will join us for our first session

We hope you’ll join us – feel free to drop by the #powerhour channel in powershell.slack.com!

PS: a huge thanks to Michael Lombardi for his help with the summit community lightning demos, and partnering up to make PowerHour a thing!