<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 12/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Pope</b> <<a href="mailto:alan@popey.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
alan@popey.com</a>> wrote:<span class="gmail_quote"></span></blockquote><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 14:19 -0800, Ubuntu Clips wrote:
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<br>{snip} <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> It would be nice to have a "core" set of screencasts that complement
<br>> the existing core topics in the documentation. These could be created,<br>> updated, and maintained in some sort of consistent and systematic way<br>> along with release cycles and the rest of the documentation.
<br><br>Agreed. Although the thought of re-recording them as each release comes<br>out fills me with dread somewhat. Knowing how long each takes to record<br>this could be a pain. Maybe only do core screencasts for LTS releases,
<br>and only update them, but have ad-hoc ones for the in-between-LTS<br>releases?</blockquote><div><br>That sounds like a good, reasonable start. We could always evaluate and re-evaluate this as things move along and there's a sense of both the time and resources involved and the number of people who are keen to help out.
<br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> I think it would also be of great value to have community contributed
<br>> screencasts in the spirit of ubuntuclips and more generally in the<br>> spirit of users helping users as with forums, wikis, etc.<br>><br><br>Definitely. I would welcome some direction as to what exactly people
<br>"need". I have some idea of course, especially after answering the same<br>question over and over on the support ticket system over on launchpad. I<br>have already been able to answer some questions with "check this
<br>screencast, it explains what you want". If we could answer more like<br>that I think we're on a winner. Nobody likes having to explain the same<br>thing over and over, and with a screencast the end user can watch it to
<br>their hearts content - and of course pass it on.<br></blockquote></div><br>We've tried to address this on ubuntuclips via the "clip wanted" area of the site - a place where users can request videos on particular topics. More generally, would it make any sense to get in touch with forum moderators and long time contributors to get a sense of highly recurring questions and topics? Or perhaps doing some sort of informal analysis of the forums ourselves to get a sense of this? It could be a good starting point that could be complemented by ongoing user input and requests.
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Michael<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://ubuntuclips.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntuclips.org</a><br>video howtos for human beings