Screencasts - teambuilding and documentation

[Alan Pope]

On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 14:19 -0800, Ubuntu Clips wrote:

> Hi Matt,
> 
> Sounds like a wonderful idea. Some initial thoughts:
> 

Excellent, it's great to have you guys on board. You have generated
loads of content, and looking at the hit counters, are quite popular
too! :)

> It would be nice to have a "core" set of screencasts that complement
> the existing core topics in the documentation. These could be created,
> updated, and maintained in some sort of consistent and systematic way
> along with release cycles and the rest of the documentation. 
> 

Agreed. Although the thought of re-recording them as each release comes
out fills me with dread somewhat. Knowing how long each takes to record
this could be a pain. Maybe only do core screencasts for LTS releases,
and only update them, but have ad-hoc ones for the in-between-LTS
releases?

> I think it would also be of great value to have community contributed
> screencasts in the spirit of ubuntuclips and more generally in the
> spirit of users helping users as with forums, wikis, etc. 
> 

Definitely. I would welcome some direction as to what exactly people
"need". I have some idea of course, especially after answering the same
question over and over on the support ticket system over on launchpad. I
have already been able to answer some questions with "check this
screencast, it explains what you want". If we could answer more like
that I think we're on a winner. Nobody likes having to explain the same
thing over and over, and with a screencast the end user can watch it to
their hearts content - and of course pass it on.

Cheers,
Al.