[documentation] Collecting Drupal presentations / videos / resources together in one sane place

[George]

Kristof, heck yeah, i'd love any help i can get :) i just haven't 
thought that far ahead and really shouldn't be writing emails late at 
night! please send me your email, so i can contact you directly.

Kristof Van Tomme wrote:
> Hi George,
>
> I'm not sure if you got my email, the only reference I see is about
> the bookmarks.
>
> What about
> -multi-lingual resources?
> -my offer to help?
>
>
> -There is a big chance I'll be involved in the video team at the next
> European Drupalcon (e.g. for sure if Maastricht wins, possibly if
> Paris wins).
> -I have access to the Szeged video material (we put it online).
>
>
> But if you want to go it alone good luck =D
>
> Cheers,
> Kristof
>
>
>
>
> 2009/2/4 George <g at 8vue.com>:
>   
>> Yeah, Addi's hit on the important point of time consumption. That's why
>> I was thinking it's important to 'use' the community as much as
>> possible, allowing it to add new videos (trusted members though) to
>> allow the site to grow.
>>
>> Addi's also hit upon something I didn't think about, and that was the
>> forking of the comments for each video. Good point - thanks! maybe it
>> would be better to leave it off for the resources. or, someway to track
>> the comments on the original site...
>>
>> Defining a clear set of rules for QC would be difficult, I would assume
>> as we have different learning styles, some prefer visual, audio, or
>> kineasthetic means of learning, we may favour different explanations of
>> a question depending on these styles. So, it may be good to have
>> different persons 'reviewing'. That way, if users find they favour one
>> particular style, they can look at that particular reviewer for videos.
>>
>> After spending 5 hours producing a video which explains (badly) how to
>> create a recipe cck node type, a video producer could be pissed off with
>> it being rejected, so maybe to allieviate this, implement a
>> gold/silver/bronze rating to 'shut them up' and to not put them off for
>> the future? they could in 3 months time be producing better vids, which
>> they'd be feeding directly to the site.
>>
>> I think a bookmark site is useless for research / help. With 200
>> gabazillion bookmarks, and seeing 4,999 'resources' tagged under cck
>> wouldn't turn me on.
>>
>> in summary, a one-size-fits-all site is prolly not going to be
>> effective, a traditional user-voted content site will be at risk of
>> being manipulated, so it's finding a happy medium between these two.
>> Also, i need to prevent putting people off from submitting resources to
>> the site - so constructive criticism should be given where necessary.
>>
>> On paper it could be a lot of things, so i'm going to try and start with
>> the core goal, and hopefully work outwards!
>>
>> Any other ideas/suggestions?
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