[ADMIN] Screencast Team approval application

Thu Oct 11 08:48:25 BST 2007

Here is the video in question.  It's about 2 MB

http://xero-games.com/pc/Podcast/Screencasts/start.mpeg

What do you think about that?
On 10/11/07, Matthew Rossi <matthew.penguincentral at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
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> On 10/11/07, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Matthew,
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 23:35 +1000, Matthew Rossi wrote:
> > > On 10/10/07, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com > wrote:
> > >         He mailed the marketing team during the meeting. I got the
> > >         mail before
> > >         the meeting was over. He works pretty quickly.
> > >
> > > Even I'm impressed, but I have another question for you: What are we
> > > SPECIFICALLY going to be given by Shuttleworth?
> >
> > I'm not sure we need anything directly from Mark. We are one of many
> > many teams. I don't think we can expect a large amount of his time given
> > all the other critical systems out there.
>
>
> Can't say much there...
>
> >
> > >         :(
> > >
> > >         You're entitled to your opinion of course, but I think you're
> > >         wrong :)
> > >
> > >         It also depends what you mean by "huge", how you measure
> > >         success.
> > >
> > > Alan, "immensely huge".  Does the word immensely give you a clue on
> > > what sort of success that I am talking about?
> >
> > Note really. It's a relative term. I could say that they are immensely
> > popular but without something to compare to, it's meaningless.
>
>
> But you get the idea, right?? And yes, you are entitled into your opinion.
>
> >         >   It is a very complicated process to create a screencast
> > >         which
> > >         > sometimes even I have trouble with.
> > >
> > >         Indeed it is a cumbersome process. Once which I'd like to see
> > >         made
> > >         easier.
> > >
> > > Wouldn't we all? In fact, I wish there is a better way to create the
> > > introduction scenes, because every time that i try to record it, the
> > > title doesn't show up properly.
> >
> > Interesting. What goes wrong exactly? Maybe I can help?
>
>
> I'll upload a video that will demonstrate what is wrong later.  I can't do
> it now, my computer is off and I can't SSH into it (not at home at the
> moment) and download it to my offsite server .  But i will do it later.
>
> >  I have to do each slide seperately.  I wish that there were other
> > > ways to make titles for the screencasts than using OpenOffice and
> > > capture the slide show.
> > >
> >
> > Yeah, on other platforms they have nice tools, but OO.o is all I have
> > found that will do the job. I guess other tools like blender and
> > inkscape could be used, but I don't know those products.
>
>
> Who knows...
>
> > Alan, I am reading through the Screencasts that have been published
> > > since I posted mine about Skype.  Now there has only been TWO that
> > > have been translated into other languages.
> >
> > You posted yours on 12th Sept. The translation page was started the next
> >
> > day. Since then there have been over 50 edits of the translation page,
> > with more than 50 subtitle files now on the translation page:-
>
>
> But most of those on the translation page are from screencasts BEFORE Sep
> 12.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastTeam/TranslationStatus
> >
> > >   Those were the Printing in Ubuntu one and the one about burning the
> > > ubuntu iso in Infra Recorder for windows.  You have to be kidding me.
> > > Why ONLY two out of eight out of the LAST MONTH have subtitles.
> >
> > Not quite. The subtitle files are all attached to the above linked page.
> > As and when I get time I go through that page and and upload them to the
> > site.
>
>
> Refer to above...
>
> >   Now there is a problem that NEEDS TO BE RECTIFIED if we have ANY
> > > hope of putting these screencasts in ubuntu because it wouldn't be
> > > fair for those that don't speak decent english like you and I to miss
> > > out on learning through Screencasts.
> > >
> >
> > I agree.
> >
> > >
> > >         > For the translation stuff to work, we need to work out what
> > >         are the
> > >         > most important languages that we want the screencasts in,
> > >         and how
> > >         > often do we release non-english stuff.  I find the current
> > >         process a
> > >         > joke, rather a nightmare.
> > >         >
> > >
> > >         That's quite harsh.
> > >
> > > That is absolute toilet.  The main goal should be to allow EVERYBODY
> > > to access these screencasts.  When there is a large demand for
> > > screencasts in say, Esperanto, what will you do about it?
> > >
> >
> > As someone who speaks Esperanto to translate them. Yes we need more
> > translators, and I've asked the loco teams to get people involved, and
> > some have. We have over 50 people subscribed to this mailing list for a
> > start.
>
>
> Stop there.  How many of those 50 people that are part of the mailing list
> are ACTUALLY actively involved in the project?
>
> One real problem is that the subtitles aren't actually that easy to
> > translate. If we could somehow upload them into launchpad we could get
> > them potentially translated much quicker because there is a large team
> > of people already using the launchpad translation system for existing
> > projects. We could leverage that group. Problem is that someone would
> > need to devote time to writing the tools to convert the srt files to
> > something lp could use. I can't do that, a launchpad developer could
> > though.
>
>
> Well, I'll leave it up to you and you can deliver the goods ;)
>
> >
> > > I have already started writing such a spec and will do my best to move
> > >         that on at UDS later this month.
> > >
> > > Do you have a draft on a wiki page?
> >
> > We have a blueprint and a wiki page:-
> >
> > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/screencasts-in-ubuntu
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastsInUbuntuSpec
> >
> > >  Or will we have to wait after UDS?
> >
> > > Because we as a WHOLE team need to look at this and critique it so it
> > > comes from us, not just you.  WE ARE A TEAM, remember?
> > >
> >
> > I was hoping I could get someone from Canonical to look over it before I
> > publicised it, but the content is there for all to see and edit.
>
>
> Well, I can wait seeing that this month I have to wait for everything...
>
> Cheers,
> > Al.
> >
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> >
> >
> Talk to you later...
>
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