ScreencastTeam video tutorials

[Alan Pope]

2009/7/26 Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com>:
> How does meeting next Sunday (2nd of August) sound? I think we're
> overdue a doc team meeting anyway.
>

Sounds good to me.

> What use cases do you see for the long-format screencasts? I don't think
> that they would be appropriate for system docs integration, but how
> might other UA people use them?
>

The most popular of all the screencasts I've done are the ones
detailing how to install Ubuntu. I did a few of these back in 2007
covering installing dual-boot with windows, using the alternate
installer, setting up software RAID1 during install.
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2369893842637434537 for
example is 13 mins long and shows the installer, partitioner and even
the old Windows apps on the live CD. Now this could be trimmed down
into 4x4 min videos which when viewed in sequence give the same
overall story, but in more bitesize chunks.

> It would be interesting to collect some data on what new users struggle
> with the most, so that we can concentrate on the most important stuff
> first. If we do decide to integrate screencasts with the docs (which I
> hope we will), I'd like to run with a limited set of screencasts and
> evaluate how beneficial they are before we start attaching one to
> everything.
>

Given we don't have the luxury of all OEMs pre-installing Ubuntu the
first thing people often see is the live CD, the desktop and the
installer. These seem to bear out in the stats as these are the topics
most people seem to both watch and email me about.

Cheers,
Al.