Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Thank you!
On 14 Sep 2009, at 22:47, Tim Landscheidt wrote: At another conference, the video switched from the camera viewpoint to the slides back and forth (I do not know wheth- er that was done while recording or in post-production). Ob- viously, this requires more manpower but the result was worth it. Tim The easiest way to do this is to create images of the powerpoint slides, and add them into the recordings post-production. I believe that adding images into videos (with fading in/out) is fairly standard in video editing software. It's something that could be done by the community a) if they want, and b) if they have the software. Mike ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Thank you!
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: On 14 Sep 2009, at 22:47, Tim Landscheidt wrote: At another conference, the video switched from the camera viewpoint to the slides back and forth (I do not know wheth- er that was done while recording or in post-production). Ob- viously, this requires more manpower but the result was worth it. Tim The easiest way to do this is to create images of the powerpoint slides, and add them into the recordings post-production. I believe that adding images into videos (with fading in/out) is fairly standard in video editing software. It's something that could be done by the community a) if they want, and b) if they have the software. Mike In an ideal world, it might be nice to have a video of the speaker and a slideshow of the presentation available side-by-side in the same window. Thanks, Pharos ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Thank you!
Hoi, I just noticed that not only is the video of my presentation about the MediaWiki Wave integration not online probably lost, I found that the presentations are also not available on Commons. I assumed that my slideshows would be put on Commons as I send them when asked. The presentations are already on slideshare and I used them on my blog(s).. In an ideal world things will be together.. It is great that we can make it so. Thanks, GerardM 2009/9/15 Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.com On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: On 14 Sep 2009, at 22:47, Tim Landscheidt wrote: At another conference, the video switched from the camera viewpoint to the slides back and forth (I do not know wheth- er that was done while recording or in post-production). Ob- viously, this requires more manpower but the result was worth it. Tim The easiest way to do this is to create images of the powerpoint slides, and add them into the recordings post-production. I believe that adding images into videos (with fading in/out) is fairly standard in video editing software. It's something that could be done by the community a) if they want, and b) if they have the software. Mike In an ideal world, it might be nice to have a video of the speaker and a slideshow of the presentation available side-by-side in the same window. Thanks, Pharos ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: [...] 2. On many videos, if not most, it is impossible to see the content of the slides. Could videos be uploaded in higher resolution? Obvious downsides: larger file size, more bandwidth required. Or maybe all presenters could be encouraged to upload their presentation slides (I know some already do this) so people can view along as they listen to the audio of the talk. [...] At another conference, the video switched from the camera viewpoint to the slides back and forth (I do not know wheth- er that was done while recording or in post-production). Ob- viously, this requires more manpower but the result was worth it. Tim ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:31 PM, phoebe ayersphoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: - videos of all the talks As someone who is unlikely to be able to ever attend a Wikimania unless it comes to London I'd like to express my gratitude for all the effort that's gone into that. I've watched quite a few and intend to watch many more. There is, however, room for improvement on this front. So here's what I would like to see, in terms of video, from the next Wikimania: 1. Some of the videos have issues (eg, absent sound for part of the talk or audio track slowed down to the extent that people sound like orcs). It would be good if whoever uploads the video would view the content and try to solve such issues before making them available. If it's not possible to solve the issue it would be good if they could annotate the video (eg sound absent until 2:48) so people are forewarned and can fast forward to the watchable portion. 2. On many videos, if not most, it is impossible to see the content of the slides. Could videos be uploaded in higher resolution? Obvious downsides: larger file size, more bandwidth required. Or maybe all presenters could be encouraged to upload their presentation slides (I know some already do this) so people can view along as they listen to the audio of the talk. 3. On the videos with a QA segment the audience often doesn't have a microphone so the viewer can't hear the questions. Could more talks provide the audience with a microphone? And where this isn't possible, could speakers be encouraged to repeat or summarise the question for the benefit of the camera? 4. More of an observation than a recommendation: as I've watched the videos most of their respective talk pages have not yet been contributed to (they're red links). The same can be said for their entries in the Wikimania schedule. I thought more people would be wanting to discuss the content of the talks. Despite my various gripes it's really great to have so many videos, so thanks to everyone involved. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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re: the errors, I assume you added those to the talkpage of the files on commons? That way someone could actually see if it can be fixed :) thanks! eia 2009/9/4 Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:31 PM, phoebe ayersphoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: - videos of all the talks As someone who is unlikely to be able to ever attend a Wikimania unless it comes to London I'd like to express my gratitude for all the effort that's gone into that. I've watched quite a few and intend to watch many more. There is, however, room for improvement on this front. So here's what I would like to see, in terms of video, from the next Wikimania: 1. Some of the videos have issues (eg, absent sound for part of the talk or audio track slowed down to the extent that people sound like orcs). It would be good if whoever uploads the video would view the content and try to solve such issues before making them available. If it's not possible to solve the issue it would be good if they could annotate the video (eg sound absent until 2:48) so people are forewarned and can fast forward to the watchable portion. 2. On many videos, if not most, it is impossible to see the content of the slides. Could videos be uploaded in higher resolution? Obvious downsides: larger file size, more bandwidth required. Or maybe all presenters could be encouraged to upload their presentation slides (I know some already do this) so people can view along as they listen to the audio of the talk. 3. On the videos with a QA segment the audience often doesn't have a microphone so the viewer can't hear the questions. Could more talks provide the audience with a microphone? And where this isn't possible, could speakers be encouraged to repeat or summarise the question for the benefit of the camera? 4. More of an observation than a recommendation: as I've watched the videos most of their respective talk pages have not yet been contributed to (they're red links). The same can be said for their entries in the Wikimania schedule. I thought more people would be wanting to discuss the content of the talks. Despite my various gripes it's really great to have so many videos, so thanks to everyone involved. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:04 PM, effe iets anderseffeietsand...@gmail.com wrote: re: the errors, I assume you added those to the talkpage of the files on commons? That way someone could actually see if it can be fixed :) On the one with absent sound I left a note beneath the video saying at what point the sound comes in. I thought it more helpful there than on the talk page as I felt a lot of people might navigate away thinking the sound would *never* arrive. I confess I didn't say anything on the one with sound so slowed down the video was unlistenable, which was remiss of me. I will if I come across it again. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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But could they be uploaded afterwards? (assuming the source files are still available?) Lodewijk 2009/9/4 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org On 9/4/09 1:01 AM, Bod Notbod wrote: 2. On many videos, if not most, it is impossible to see the content of the slides. Could videos be uploaded in higher resolution? Obvious downsides: larger file size, more bandwidth required. Or maybe all presenters could be encouraged to upload their presentation slides (I know some already do this) so people can view along as they listen to the audio of the talk. Higher-res versions would be very nice, but would have been much harder to get done and uploaded as quickly. :) Maybe next year, when we've got more of the new video upload support in place! I would definitely encourage everybody to upload slides and link them with the video versions; PDF slides can be uploaded directly to Commons and can now be viewed inline as well as downloading them. 3. On the videos with a QA segment the audience often doesn't have a microphone so the viewer can't hear the questions. Could more talks provide the audience with a microphone? And where this isn't possible, could speakers be encouraged to repeat or summarise the question for the benefit of the camera? Moderators/assistants from the local team were usually pretty good about getting the microphones around or else reminding the speaker to repeat questions, but of course this gets forgotten sometimes. -- brion ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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Brion Vibber, 04/09/2009 20:51: I would definitely encourage everybody to upload slides and link them with the video versions; PDF slides can be uploaded directly to Commons and can now be viewed inline as well as downloading them. Yes, please! They'll be included also in the proceeding's page on Wikimania wiki (very nice). You can also upload here: http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Presentation_slides if you have copyright problems (e.g. copyrighted embedded screenshots or whatever). Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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Indeed, what Florence everyone said -- this year's Wikimania was fantastic. There were several details that especially shone: - the great swag; the book was my favorite part - the welcome dinner and all the nice information for arriving attendees - the tight moderation room volunteer team, who kept everything cracking along on schedule; this team of folks deserves extra applause - simultaneous translation!!! - videos of all the talks - the great common areas - coffee all the time :) I also heard lots of praise for the conference program, and for the city itself. I also know a lot of work got done, and hundreds of interesting conversations were had; I hope a lot of good results come out of this year's conference. Most of the details I listed above are based on ideas that have come out of past wikimanias; so I'd encourage everyone to post their feedback (let's start http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback for survey-feedback, as well as http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2011)... and if you're interested, please help out with the planning for next year and future conferences if you can. Thanks again to an organized, dedicated and responsive team that spent the past 18 months working on this conference; your hard work definitely paid off. -- phoebe On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Florence Devouardanth...@anthere.org wrote: Nathan wrote: I wasn't there, but I'll echo Erik, Ting and Jerry - from everything I've read, the organizers did a great job and really represented the Wikimedia community well. Thanks for your hard work and congratulations on a job well done. Nathan After having been a member of the past 5 Wikimanias, I have to outline how nicely organized everything was. Indeed, the bar is raised very very high now for the future events. Great program, great people, great food, great parties. Even unexpectedly warm winter weather. Patricio, you were worried the first day about the two event location... that was no trouble whatsoever. Thank you as well for the videos and live streaming, and for the translation service. Yeah, all of you guys did a great job ! ant -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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Nathan wrote: I wasn't there, but I'll echo Erik, Ting and Jerry - from everything I've read, the organizers did a great job and really represented the Wikimedia community well. Thanks for your hard work and congratulations on a job well done. Nathan ___ Wikimania-l mailing list wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l After having been a member of the past 5 Wikimanias, I have to outline how nicely organized everything was. Indeed, the bar is raised very very high now for the future events. Great program, great people, great food, great parties. Even unexpectedly warm winter weather. Patricio, you were worried the first day about the two event location... that was no trouble whatsoever. Thank you as well for the videos and live streaming, and for the translation service. Yeah, all of you guys did a great job ! ant ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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I wasn't there, but I'll echo Erik, Ting and Jerry - from everything I've read, the organizers did a great job and really represented the Wikimedia community well. Thanks for your hard work and congratulations on a job well done. Nathan ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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Nathan, 31/08/2009 19:13: I wasn't there, but I'll echo Erik, Ting and Jerry - from everything I've read, the organizers did a great job and really represented the Wikimedia community well. Thanks for your hard work and congratulations on a job well done. And, videos are great, so I'm enjoying many presentations. :-D You can find them here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2009_presentations (they're still being uploaded). Thank you! Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
