Well, we do have Shuttleworth's support which is good, but i question how long we will wait for him to tell us specifically how he plans to support us.  But no doubt about it, Shuttleworth's backing is more valuable than a podcaster's backing :) Really, in my opinion I don't see this project becoming immensely huge at any time soon.  It is a very complicated process to create a screencast which sometimes even I have trouble with.  And translation, regardless of whether it's an audio dub or subtitling has had many issues (as Frédéric (MrEgg964) has noted recently).  Also the turnover of the English screencasts is much faster than the turnover of non-english screencasts, but this is a problem that the people at Full Circle Magazine have been experiencing. 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.   I think that the screencasts need to be tied into Ubuntu somehow for this project to grow (Possibly an app that you can stream the videos in, I hope that Alan writes a good proposal for such at the UDS in Boston).  This boils down to why we make screencasts in the first place, to teach people how to use a program visually, because we all can't sit down and read a lengthy Documentation, and having the screencasts tied into Ubuntu in such a way should boost the popularity of the Screencasts (an idea for Mark?). For a consolation to Alan, I must admit the popularity of the MoS feed in Miro did help us quite a bit which is why I am part of this team in the first place.  (Alan, it was a very mad plan indeed ;) ) I am indeed hopeful that the Screencasts project grows from what it is today.  We provide a great service to the community, and don't ever forget that when you are giving up your time to contribute to the project, regardless whether you are recording, or translating :) -- Matthew Rossi I am for Macs, and the open source scene, are you?  Read my blog at <a href="http://www.mattr.co.nr">www.mattr.co.nr</a>.  You can also find my podcast at <a href="http://www.penguincentral.co.nr">www.penguincentral.co.nr</a> Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973) <a href="http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/certificate.cgi/455532">http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/certificate.cgi/455532</a> <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> On 10/10/07, Alan Pope <<a href="mailto:alan@popey.com">alan@popey.com</a>> wrote:Hi, On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:05 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > I figured now might be a good time to get our team approved [1]. You can > find out what getting approved means from this page [2]. It's more > tailored for LoCo teams, but other non-locos do go for approval also. > Well the meeting was interesting. We didn't get approved. Partly I think because the team is small (as in, I'm the one making most of the screencasts) and partly because there didn't seem to be a perceived benefit to being official. Approval seems to be primarily designed for LoCo teams and not "other" teams, so It's not a disaster that we aren't official, and indeed has raised the issue with the CC, so perhaps there will be an official policy at some point for non Locos. Mark did ask the Ubuntu & Canonical marketing people if they could help us. I'm not sure how, suggestions welcome! Mark also said the work we're doing is "awesome" which was nice to see. So all in all I'm not too fussed that we didn't get approval. :) Cheers, Al. -- Ubuntu-screencasts mailing list Ubuntu-screencasts@lists <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-screencasts"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-screencasts</a> </blockquote></blockquote>