Alan, I have been fielding request by members of the Beginners Team in regards to the screencast team and i want to get the ball moving forward in some fashion ta allow members to contribute. The Beginners Team is a fairly large and robust team made up of individuals with a diverse set of skills. We have what we call Focus Groups that work on Documentation, Bug Reporting, The Ubuntu Forum, Ubuntu Development, IRC live support and much more. One of our FG helped to start the Ubuntu Community Learning Project. Since that group started that project they have been looking for a role to replace the void left by the responsibilities that were transferred to UCLP. I think the Ubuntu Screencast Team would be a great way for this group of individuals dedicated to creating educational resources for Ubuntu to fill this gap. I am Lead of a Focus Group in the Beginners Team called the launchpad Focus Group. We do what i like to call Educate and Participate in all things Launchpad. One of our first tasks is to increase the amount of documentation about the Launchpad Tools. One resource Launchpad has that has been way underdeveloped is a YouTube channel. The Launchpad FG would like to build on this resource and at the same time port these videos over to be used on the Screencast Team resources. Also there has been talk, and at this point not much more, about a screencast app. There have been a lot of recent projects aimed at streamlining resources and bringing tools to your desktop. Lernid, Quickly, Acire, Groundcontrol, all great resources. Jono Bacon mentioned in a recent videocast a desire to see something like this for screencasting. A tool integrated into your Desktop that allows users to access screencasts. I think this is wonderful idea and i would like to spend more time developing this idea and eventually see it come to life. I hope I have got you excited about some of the capabilities and ideas the Beginners Team can bring to the table. I look forward to helping you move the team forward in any way possible. Please let me know if there is anything i can do. duanedesign <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Duane Hinnen <<a href="mailto:duanedesign@gmail.com">duanedesign@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Alan, Absolutely if you are looking for someone to be the new lead on the screencast team I would love to volunteer. I talked it over with some of the other members of the Ubuntu Beginners Team and they expressed interest in helping out. Let me know what you think, I look forward to talking with you. Duane HInnen <a href="mailto:duanedesign@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">duanedesign@ubuntu.com</a> </blockquote></div> -- Duane Hinnen Ubuntu Beginners Team Oklahoma Ubuntu loCo <a href="mailto:duanedesign@ubuntu.com">duanedesign@ubuntu.com</a> <a href="mailto:sip%3Aduanedesign@ekiga.net">sip:duanedesign@ekiga.net</a>