The Origin Story: From Prague Summit to Virtual London Event
This week, I have a couple of things scheduled that I need to do. And one of them is because I talked myself into a project that I wasn't necessarily ready for.
A few years back, I played at a summit that happened in Prague. It was for the Ubuntu Summit. It's a summit that's for free and open source culture, and mainly is about the operating system Ubuntu, which is a Linux operating system.
My band played there because we are Ubuntu users and we are open-source artists. They announced that they were going to be doing another one this year from London. They were going to announce the details and all this and I was like, I would like to go to London.
So, I contacted them and they were kind of like, well, we're not really doing it the same way this year. And I'm like, well, what's going on? And then they finally announced that it is going to be an online streaming event that is being hosted from London, but it's meant to be virtual.
Talking Them into Letting Me Run a Separate Music Stream
So, not wanting to admit defeat, I was like, "What if you had a separate music event stream that happened, and I could get other musicians, including my band, to perform. It could have creative commons music all day, and we could have it so people could listen to it in the background during the summit".
And they're like, "Great, let's talk about it. Let's do it". I'm like, "All right, this will be awesome" and this will give my band good exposure and everything.
But the problem is I've never done something like this before. I've never done a live stream event that would involve other people in a different location. So I've been working on how to manage this, how to find in the bands.
Hitting the Deadline: October 23rd and 24th
I mean, my band will be able to record something, but, having this live music audio stream in place is what I'm working on right now.
This is really just - I'm trying something new. I took a gamble and said to this organization, "Hey, what if you let me run this?". And they said, "Great, do it because it's a great idea and you're saying we don't have to do anything". They went, "Go for it". And then I went, "Oh crap, I have to learn how to do this, and I kind of am". So, there you go. I've got to get going on that stuff.