[documentation] Video documentation

[Addi Berry]

I would like to know if drupal.org might consider coming up with a  
process of some sort for having people donate videos for  
documentation.  I wanted to raise it first here on the docs list to  
see if this has already been discussed before (in a concrete we could  
do it this way or a "no" from infra) and what the feeling is about if/ 
how we would do this before I even bothered raising the issue with  
infra.  I have seen some discussion around it in the archives but  
nothing really substantive in terms of implementation ideas.  I know  
that certain "sanctioned" videos for each new upgrade say are made  
available and apparently the dojo screencasts will be hosted by d.o  
but those are pretty controlled circumstances.

My main thought behind looking at this is because of the desire to  
keep as much drupal help here at d.o rather than splintering.  There  
seem to be a number of individuals that have created video tutorials  
on Drupal but they are all off the main d.o path.  My organization is  
going to let me give any training videos I create on the job back to  
the Drupal community but they don't want to host them (or even really  
be associated with them once released - long story).  So how do I  
give these back to the community?  One option is to open up the  
drupaldojo sites to host them but I don't see that as being a good  
solution, due to bandwidth issues (since individuals are hosting  
these sites) and the whole splintering issue again.  I guess each  
time I create one I could go to infra and ask them and see what they  
say, but well that seems tedious for both myself and infra and  
doesn't really help with what to "do" with it in terms of the  
handbook even if infra is willing to host on the d.o server.

So, if we were to propose something to d.o about this, what exactly  
would/should be the parameters?  In saying "about this" I mean that  
instead of just individuals asking for videos to be hosted if they  
think to ask, that we actually come up with a standard process for  
people to submit videos and even advertise the fact on d.o.  Is this  
an idea worth pursuing at this time?  How would it "integrate" into  
the existing handbook? Ideas, concerns, suggestions, STFUs?

- Addi (add1sun)



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