Give LIVE!

Livestream and musical web offerings are scattered in the web, these resources are critical for culture and mental relief in covid 19 pandemic, lets but in in one home.

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Stand apart: Together.

The Covid19 world pandemic has changed life as we know it. With much of the world social distancing, we are called to distance, but not isolate. Its difficult to not feel the negative affects of social distancing when we can no longer visit friends and family or go to cultural events like concerts, festivals, and theatre. Behind closed dores we are still social beings; we need to experience each other. Sharing culture is what makes us human.

Give On LIVE! takes immediate action by partnering with the one interactive medium, available to everyone with internet connection: LIVEStream. Live streaming is already the new norm, and we have given it a new home. Our mission is to gather livestream content in ONE place. A portal that fosters connection between humans. The ultimate interactive stage where we can share culture without boarders.

Host a LIVEstream or Nominate your favorite LIVEstream Creator. Post an event on the calendar and share with the world. Give On Live is the guide to discovering, hosting, and sharing content that makes us human. We may be called to stand apart for now, but at Give On LIVE, we can be UNITED through LIVEstream.

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Stand Apart: Together Give On LIVE! Your Livestream Guide

Inspiration

In this sudden time of quarantine and social distancing, many have been forced into lockdown, physically cut off from other human. We have found that in this time #LIVEHeroes have stood up and shared their talents freely to selflessly give others entertaining options for their #PandemicSurvivalGuide. Fitness instructors and gyms have offered free livestream classes, mentors and life coaches frequently go LIVE to share advice, many institutions are hosting LIVE seminars. And perhaps most impressive is the amount of artist collaborating to raise money for needed Covid19 relief initiatives. #TogetherAtHome #BigNighIn #AndreaBoccelli #MusicForHope. Our world is coming together to share positive content and endure this time together, it deserves a home.

What it does

Our mission is to gather free livestream in ONE place; a portal that fosters connection between humans. Our open, crowdsourced guide brings together all the free livestream resources available. With a focus on Conderts & Festivals, MIND, BODY, SOUL, & COVID19, this guide shares daily uplifting, entertaining, and interactive resources people can engage from their computer or mobile. No matter which platform used for streaming, all information is gathered here to easily guide users.

Our Progress

We started with a Google Form, Public Calendar and Dream.

The GLOBAL HACK - April 2020 During the Global Hack we gathered a small rockstar team and built out a simple front-end combining the Google Form and Google Calendar. We built on Wordpress and followed a theme with all the functions of a live streaming platform like YouTube. We kept it very simple, with a home landing page with categories, the full calendar, and submit form.

The DATA BIO HACK - April 2020 We gathered physicists and data scientists to discover what data could tell us about what activities were available, how people were feeling, and a smart data-driven solution to recommend daily livestream to viewers we had never met. We scoured data sets and created the “Senti-me” aggregator. Using an API over Twitter we triggered collection of key words and posts. Thus we were able to gather, compare and analyze the sentiment of humans in different regions (IP addresses) This helped us to start forming our persona Thomas, an out of work creator and Tara Rose an exchange student living in the heart of the outbreak, Milano, Italy.

The EuVSVirus HACK - April 2020 We have built a mobile app for Android and IOS This has direct integration into the Google Calendar. Users can search the many listings and add to their personal agenda. There is an option to watch certain “Featured Daily” selection directly from the site. This will be connected to a smart bot, that uses data sets and sociology AI to recommend best daily quarantine agenda for users. Also an option for “Daily Livestream” an email with the pick of the day.

How we built it

We started with a simple Google Form & Calendar, and added a front-end website built on Wordpress. We began recruiting LIVEAmbassadors to add events on to the calendar and recruit users to niche FB groups related to different categories. We built a back-end aggregator to scrape event off posts on Twitter to start. These events integrate directly to public Google Calendar and pass through a moderation portal where admins can have access to push to the system or not. For ambassadors we will make an easy streamline way to submit livestream recommendations and hosted sessions, though integratabtle bots to their own calendar and eventbrite accounts.
During the EuVsVirus Hackathon we built a functioning Mobile App. -We built using Flutter, immediately integratabtle for Android and IOS -We connected an API to Google calendar that connects live to our mobile app triggers -We used Figma to create UI/UX for both sides of our Marketplace; viewer and host -We integrated the design into the back end

Challenges

There are endless resources and we need a scalable method to make sure content is appropriate. As we grow the host creator community we will also be challenged by maintaining an open governance that adhere to the rules of engagement. Getting started configuring the web server was challenging. Integrating the different tech and plugins took time and strain. We had to deal with bugs. We were also working on various time zone so, team collaboration challenges. Very grateful to mentors and slack that helped us coordinate all. Customizing features with google integration was limited to google style. We need to consider if we will keep these color and style limitations or later build from scratch. There are many benefits with so many users on google to keep as is, we are analyzing financial of labor and upkeep for staying in Google or customizing a new solution.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

In two short weeks we have made a well rounded initial guide integratable with viewers personal google calendar and attracted many interested mission members. During the EuVSVirus we have built a functioning Mobile app using Flutter that can be made available easily to both IOS and Android.

What we learned

Livestream content, Zoom group webinars and other platforms can take time for viewers to get used to. Both hosts and participants have a learning curve to accessing content. We understand limitations and want to also embed an easy way for guide subscribers to access their livestream from GiveLIVE! app or links from personal google calendar.

What's next for Give On Live

Give, Grow, and Build. We are excited to enter various Hackathons and continue to add value to the community with more features and most importantly the interactive livestream content society needs to stay uplifted in this critical time.

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