Here is the video in question. It's about 2 MB<br><br><a href="http://xero-games.com/pc/Podcast/Screencasts/start.mpeg">http://xero-games.com/pc/Podcast/Screencasts/start.mpeg</a><br><br>What do you think about that?<br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Rossi</b> <<a href="mailto:matthew.penguincentral@gmail.com">matthew.penguincentral@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/11/07, <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:
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Hi Matthew,<br><br>On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 23:35 +1000, Matthew Rossi wrote:<br>> On 10/10/07, Alan Pope <<a href="mailto:alan@popey.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">alan@popey.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> He mailed the marketing team during the meeting. I got the
<br>> mail before<br>> the meeting was over. He works pretty quickly.<br>><br>> Even I'm impressed, but I have another question for you: What are we<br>> SPECIFICALLY going to be given by Shuttleworth?
<br><br>I'm not sure we need anything directly from Mark. We are one of many<br>many teams. I don't think we can expect a large amount of his time given<br>all the other critical systems out there.</blockquote></span>
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<br>Can't say much there... <br></div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>
<br>> :(<br>><br>> You're entitled to your opinion of course, but I think you're<br>> wrong :)<br>><br>> It also depends what you mean by "huge", how you measure
<br>> success.<br>><br>> Alan, "immensely huge". Does the word immensely give you a clue on<br>> what sort of success that I am talking about?<br><br>Note really. It's a relative term. I could say that they are immensely
<br>popular but without something to compare to, it's meaningless.</blockquote></span><div><br>But you get the idea, right?? And yes, you are entitled into your opinion.<br></div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> > It is a very complicated process to create a screencast<br>> which<br>> > sometimes even I have trouble with.<br>><br>> Indeed it is a cumbersome process. Once which I'd like to see
<br>> made<br>> easier.<br>><br>> Wouldn't we all? In fact, I wish there is a better way to create the<br>> introduction scenes, because every time that i try to record it, the<br>> title doesn't show up properly.
<br><br>Interesting. What goes wrong exactly? Maybe I can help?</blockquote></span><div><br>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.
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> I have to do each slide seperately. I wish that there were other<br>> ways to make titles for the screencasts than using OpenOffice and<br>> capture the slide show.<br>><br><br>Yeah, on other platforms they have nice tools, but
OO.o is all I have<br>found that will do the job. I guess other tools like blender and<br>inkscape could be used, but I don't know those products.</blockquote></span><div><br>Who knows... <br></div><span class="q"><br>
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> Alan, I am reading through the Screencasts that have been published<br>> since I posted mine about Skype. Now there has only been TWO that<br>> have been translated into other languages.<br><br>You posted yours on 12th Sept. The translation page was started the next
<br>day. Since then there have been over 50 edits of the translation page,<br>with more than 50 subtitle files now on the translation page:-</blockquote></span><div><br>But most of those on the translation page are from screencasts BEFORE Sep 12.
<br></div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastTeam/TranslationStatus" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastTeam/TranslationStatus
</a><br><br>> Those were the Printing in Ubuntu one and the one about burning the<br>> ubuntu iso in Infra Recorder for windows. You have to be kidding me.<br>> Why ONLY two out of eight out of the LAST MONTH have subtitles.
<br><br>Not quite. The subtitle files are all attached to the above linked page.<br>As and when I get time I go through that page and and upload them to the<br>site.</blockquote></span><div><br>Refer to above... <br></div>
<span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Now there is a problem that NEEDS TO BE RECTIFIED if we have ANY<br>> hope of putting these screencasts in ubuntu because it wouldn't be<br>> fair for those that don't speak decent english like you and I to miss
<br>> out on learning through Screencasts.<br>><br><br>I agree.<br><br>><br>> > For the translation stuff to work, we need to work out what<br>> are the<br>> > most important languages that we want the screencasts in,
<br>> and how<br>> > often do we release non-english stuff. I find the current<br>> process a<br>> > joke, rather a nightmare.<br>> ><br>><br>> That's quite harsh.
<br>><br>> That is absolute toilet. The main goal should be to allow EVERYBODY<br>> to access these screencasts. When there is a large demand for<br>> screencasts in say, Esperanto, what will you do about it?
<br>><br><br>As someone who speaks Esperanto to translate them. Yes we need more<br>translators, and I've asked the loco teams to get people involved, and<br>some have. We have over 50 people subscribed to this mailing list for a
<br>start.</blockquote></span><div><br>Stop there. How many of those 50 people that are part of the mailing list are ACTUALLY actively involved in the project?<br></div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
One real problem is that the subtitles aren't actually that easy to<br>translate. If we could somehow upload them into launchpad we could get<br>them potentially translated much quicker because there is a large team
<br>of people already using the launchpad translation system for existing<br>projects. We could leverage that group. Problem is that someone would<br>need to devote time to writing the tools to convert the srt files to<br>
something lp could use. I can't do that, a launchpad developer could<br>though.</blockquote></span><div><br>Well, I'll leave it up to you and you can deliver the goods ;)<br></div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
><br>> I have already started writing such a spec and will do my best to move<br>> that on at UDS later this month.
<br>><br>> Do you have a draft on a wiki page?<br><br>We have a blueprint and a wiki page:-<br><br><a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/screencasts-in-ubuntu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/screencasts-in-ubuntu
</a><br><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastsInUbuntuSpec" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastsInUbuntuSpec</a><br><br>> Or will we have to wait after UDS?
<br> <br>> Because we as a WHOLE team need to look at this and critique it so it
<br>> comes from us, not just you. WE ARE A TEAM, remember?<br>><br><br>I was hoping I could get someone from Canonical to look over it before I<br>publicised it, but the content is there for all to see and edit.</blockquote>
</span><div><br>Well, I can wait seeing that this month I have to wait for everything...<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;">
Cheers,<br>Al.<span class="q"><br><br>--<br>Ubuntu-screencasts mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Ubuntu-screencasts@lists.ubuntu.com
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