Randomly right now…I thought it would be easier to get people to join me but everyone is either too shy or just doesn’t want to do it for some other reason . I would eventually like to get to the point where I can schedule the streams once every two weeks and always have a guest on.
When I was building a lot of front-end stuff I used to watch a JavaScript-based live stream that airs on Twitch.tv every Monday morning (check out FunFunFunction on Twitch/YouTube). The host tends to get pretty good guests from the JavaScript community to join him and they code things live (and it doesn’t always go so well, but that’s actually the point ). It’s really become a great place for web developers to just hang out, chat with others in the community, network, interact with the host/guest, and learn. I think that kind of thing does a lot of good for a programming language community and I’d love to see it happen with Julia. The beautiful thing about the live pair programming format is that there’s not a lot of prep work that needs to be done and there’s not any editing to do afterward so it’s not a big investment for the host or the guest.