Events That Travel Wherever You Are
Online events on taron are live experiences delivered through the taron app, accessible to registered attendees from anywhere. There is no venue to travel to and no geographic restriction on who can attend — a professional summit in Lagos can include participants from London, and a creative workshop in Accra can be joined by diaspora members in Toronto or Amsterdam at the same time.
On taron, online events are livestream-dependent. The live stream is the event for online attendees — it is how they experience the programming in real time. This applies to fully online events and to the online component of hybrid events, where in-person attendees are at the venue while registered remote attendees join through the stream.
How Online Events Are Delivered
When a host creates an online event on taron, the live stream they run inside the app is what online attendees watch. taron supports two livestream options:
Standard phone livestream — The host goes live directly from the taron app using their phone camera. No external equipment or software needed. Free for all hosts.
RTMP livestream — For hosts running professional or studio-quality productions. The host uses external software such as OBS or vMix, connects it to taron using an RTMP URL and stream key provided inside the app, and the stream runs through taron for attendees. This is a paid feature suited to larger productions.
Both options are experienced the same way by attendees — they join the live stream inside taron and watch in real time.
Hybrid Events
Hybrid events run both dimensions simultaneously — some attendees are at the physical venue while others join the live stream remotely. The content is the same for both groups. The experience differs in how each group accesses it: in-person attendees use their QR ticket for check-in at the venue, while online attendees join the stream inside taron.
For taron's audience of Africans on the continent and in the diaspora, hybrid events are particularly valuable. They make it possible to serve both a local audience and a geographically distributed community in a single event without requiring anyone to travel.
Who Can Join the Live Stream
Only registered attendees can access the live stream for an event. The stream is not publicly viewable — registration is the entry point. Once an attendee has registered and the event goes live, they join the stream from within the taron app.
What Attendees Need
To join an online event on taron, a registered attendee needs:
- A taron account
- A stable internet connection
- The taron app on their device
No special software or external tools are required. Audio is the minimum — whether video is needed depends on the event format and the host's setup.
