On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 20:49 +0000, Michael Wood wrote: > alan c wrote: > > for reference: > > http://ubuntuclips.org/ > > > ubuntuclips.org ubuntuvideo.com and quickones.org :| >
GNOME KDE XFCE :| ;) > This often happens in open source, 3 good ideas that could have been 1 > excellent one. Well they're not quite the same. Ubuntuvideo is a site which presents videos other people made. As far as I can tell then generate NO content themselves. In fact I submitted my videos to ubuntuvideo and only one [0] of them has been accepted [1]. It doesn't appear to be very actively maintained, I have seen one wiki page claiming the ubuntuvideo webmaster is AWOL, however I have seen updates since I saw that claim. Ubuntuclips do a similar thing to quickones however they have very clear constraints on the video size (in resolution) [2] which I do not agree with. I believe that real newbies need "start to finish" tutorials showing them everything they need to do a task. I don't believe that showing a portion of the desktop is enough, all mine are full screen (1024x768). I set the site up after the Ubuntu-UK meeting at the LinuxWorld Expo and after seeing numerous screencasts online which (in my humble opinion) sucked in one way or another. They had some or all of:- no audio track, low resolution, shaky video recording, no intro/outro, and so on. I tried to address all of these to make some high quality usable videos which could be watched by a real beginner and value gained from them. The full specification I drew up you can find as a bullet-ed list on ths site [3]. Don't get me wrong, mine aren't perfect, and I welcome feedback telling me how I can improve them. I have repeatedly asked for (both positive and negative) feedback here and elsewhere about the site and the videos and am open to suggestions. For example I recently changed the license for all the content based on feedback from an Ubuntu-UK and GNU/FSF member. I would also be happy if the content was moved to the Ubuntu-UK site - note that ALL the videos mention (in effect are branded) Ubuntu-uk and not quickones. Quickones is really just a placeholder for them right now. It was always envisaged by me that I would make screencasts and put them on quickones but after the meeting at the Expo I figured that given I have aligned myself with Ubuntu I should make Ubuntu specific screencasts for Ubuntu-UK rather than just for myself. It was just easier for me to throw the content onto a domain I already had than go through the hoops of getting some space and the necessary software on the Ubuntu-uk.org site. I also link back to Ubuntu-UK.org in the text that accompanies the Google Video entries, thus trying to bring people to our team. I would love to hear any suggestions for improving quickones.org or the Ubuntu-UK screencast 'project'. So far I have had very little negative feedback. Don't worry, I can take criticism if someone wants to throw it my way :) but most of the feedback I have had has been pretty positive - along the lines of "keep doing what you're doing", so I have been. I am no web designer so I have just used a stock theme. I'd love to have a more Ubuntu looking theme if people think that's appropriate? Should I change that? Should I make the videos not mention Ubuntu-UK? Should this not be an Ubuntu-UK project? I don't know, feedback welcome though. Sorry if this mail seems like a rant or like I am pouncing on you for criticizing, that's not the case. I just want you to understand why I set the site up and why you can't just find all of the ones I created on one of the other sites. Maybe we should add this to the agenda of the next Ubuntu-UK meeting so people can have their say "officially"? Cheers, Al. [0] http://www.ubuntuvideo.com/installing_updates_on_ubuntu [1] http://www.ubuntuvideo.com/category/tutorials [2] http://ubuntuclips.org/contribute [3] http://quickones.org/Creating_Screencasts -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
