[documentation] Video documentation

[Addison Berry]

Ah, I didn't think to look for lists under 4.7 since I was looking at  
5 and there didn't look to be a "general" list.  The handbooks should  
probably get a little organizational love there.  But this still  
relies on outside websites to host most of these videos and it would  
be cool/better if we could host them at d.o somehow so we don't lose  
these when someone's site blips off the web radar.  This is the same  
idea as not wanting offsite handbooks, it is just the medium is video  
not text.  I understand that hosting may be a make or break issue,  
but maybe this is something the Association can help with once they  
get a budget rolling.  Or maybe I just need to host it elsewhere and  
get over it not being centralized. :)

- Addi

On Feb 28, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Thom wrote:

> I like the videocasts, I’ve watched several of them and want to  
> watch a few more.
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> Here’s the list of Drupal video repositories from the 4.7  
> screencast overview page.  If you look in the comments for the  
> following page, you’ll see that people are still adding links to  
> videos as recently as last week.
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> http://drupal.org/node/63155
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> Drupal repositories you may find useful to find future screencasts  
> and video casts.
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> Videocasts on Drupal.org
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> Lullabot videocasts
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> Videocasts on Blip.tv
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> Videocasts on Google Videos
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> Thom K in CA
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> From: documentation-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:documentation- 
> bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Addi Berry
> Sent: 02/28/2007 10:53 AM
> To: documentation at drupal.org
> Subject: [documentation] Video documentation
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> - Addi (add1sun)
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