Call for volunteers: WasmAssembly podcast short interviews at June CG face-to-face meeting

[tomayac]

Hey all,

I've started a new podcast focused on WebAssembly called the WasmAssembly (yes, sic¹) and am planning on doing a special episode in the context of the face-to-face meeting at Carnegie Mellon (WIP agenda in #1590).

I would like to conduct short ad hoc interviews with volunteering attendees of the meeting and the Research Day. These would happen unobtrusively during the coffee or lunch breaks, maybe somewhere outside or in a dedicated room if the venue permits.

One idea that I had was for the Research Day to have interested paper authors introduce their research in a "for the mere mortals" format. @titzer, would this be something you could imagine and would encourage authors to consider?

For Day 1, I'd similarly ask for folks to step up and explain their proposal or work item and answer a question or two. @titzer as the host and @dschuff, @tlively, and @conrad-watt as chairs, would this be something you could imagine and would encourage attendees to consider?

(For logistical reasons, I unfortunately can't make Day 2, but if you're onsite on day 1 and want to appear, I'd more than appreciate it.)

So, once the mentioned folks agree this is a good idea, the call to action would be: if you're interested in being featured, please react with a 👍 emoji and we can take it from there…

Cheers,
Tom

Footnotes

1. WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm, a contraction of “WebAssembly”, not an acronym, hence not using all-caps) is a safe, portable, low-level code format designed for efficient execution and compact representation. An assembly is a group of people gathered together in one place for a common purpose. In this show with the whimsical name WasmAssembly (get it?), Thomas Steiner, Developer Relations Engineer at Google, chats with experts from the community about the past, present, and future developments happening in the world of WebAssembly. ↩

[tlively]

Neat idea! If @titzer is amenable as host, then I think it would make sense to give this a callout during the meeting introduction so that interested folks know who to look for if they want to participate.

[tomayac]

The podcast filming and recording is taking place as the meeting runs. Thanks all. Closing as completed. The podcast episode will launch on the WasmAssembly podcast.

[tomayac]

To close the loop on this: the episode is now live:

📢 New special episode announcement for the WasmAssembly podcast 🎙️: I attended the WebAssembly Community Group's face-to-face meeting in June and interviewed some of the Wasm community's best brains!

🍿 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgYIkvWRkPw
🎧 https://wasmassembly.libsyn.com/special-episode-on-the-june-meeting-of-the-webassembly-community-group-wasmassembly

[tomayac]

Special thank you to the guests, in order of appearance:

• @ejrgilbert, 0:28 - Elizabeth Gilbert, PhD Student at Carnegie Mellon University
• @adambratschikaye, 3:48 - Adam Bratschi-Kaye, Software Engineer at DFINITY
• @sunfishcode, 8:48 - Dan Gohman, Working on WebAssembly and WASI at Fastly
• @titzer, 12:52 - Ben Titzer, Principal Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
• @ajklein, 25:29 - Adam Klein, Software Engineer at Google
• @yuri91, 28:32 - Yuri Iozzelli, Compiler Engineer at Leaning Technologies Ltd
• @ecmziegler, 34:57 - Emanuel Ziegler, Software Engineer at Google
• @SPY, 39:44 - Ilya Rezvov, Software Engineer at Google
• @bvisness, 45:27 - Ben Visness, WebAssembly Engineer at Mozilla
• @tlively, 50:57 - Thomas Lively, Software Engineer at Google