Alex Mitchell conducted a free 5-hour workshop on Vuo in his local university's computer lab. He said, "We had a great turnout of passionate creators ranging from graphic designers - video editors - lighting designers and musicians. Even a few Max and Isadora experts. They were really excited at the speed of Vuo, and especially the new projection mapping feature!"

The workshop was divided into two parts:

• First half: Introduction, getting used to Vuo logic
• Second half: Requests, participant questions

It covered a wide range of Vuo's functionality, including:

• How Vuo uses a "push" (event-driven) paradigm, as opposed to a "pull" paradigm like some other software
• How to "push" data into nodes to get them to work — with some "designed to fail" examples so that participants could see why pushing was needed
• The three window output modes — Image, Layer, and Scene — and when to use each one
• 3D scenes with lighting and point clouds
• Fractals made with the Shadertoy node
• Experiments with intentionally glitchy flickering windows
• A demonstration of projection mapping onto some boxes

"I also ran the workshop without any pre-existing compositions," noted Alex. "I think this helped people understand, because I was building everything in front of them. I was explaining my logic of using Vuo, and they were following along."

Alex hosted this free workshop "to show people possibilities of live video & interaction on the Mac, not to 'sell' Vuo, more about community engagement and sharing knowledge."