> > > This left me with several questions: > > 1 Is there a specific channel dedicated to AOO docs or sharing other good > > AOO videos created by others? > > > > Not currently. We've been using personal accounts. There was some > discussion about the YouTube non-profit program, but no one has worked > through the requirements to see what is needed: > > https://www.youtube.com/nonprofits > > Is this something you are familiar with at all? We'd like to avoid > having a Youtube account that is tied to a single person's Google > login. We'd like something branded as Apache OpenOffice where we can > have multiple authorized editors/managers from the project able to add > videos, etc. Ideally we'd be able to curate a selection of relevant > videos that others have put on YouTube as well. >
This makes good sense. I will look into the YouTube non-profit accounts--see what is necessary. I'll also look into favoriting or listing other folks videos. Suspect that creating playlists of others videos is the way to go. > > > 2 Who decides where the videos go or which ones go on YouTube? > > > > There is no particular plan or policy on this. > > > 3 Finally, to my greatest interest, is there any current effort to > caption > > AOO videos? Is Apache using Amara ( http://amara.org/en/ ) to > cloud-source > > captions like TED and Mozilla do? Or? If there is a captioning plan, how > > are the videos to be captioned selected? If there is not a captioning > plan, > > where do I look? > > > > Nothing at the AOO level in this area. If you want an Apache-wide > perspective (there are over 100 Apache projects at the ASF) then you > can post a query to the community development project at > d...@community.apache.org. > > I'm more focused on just AOO at this point--I'd like to keep my attention focused here and see how that works out. Thanks for answering all those questions by the way--it helps me understand the context better. Again, thanks. gz
