1+ Great idea! I like the approach to create screen-casts of zoned functionality. This would be easier to tag, makes much more fun to view and is much for effective for the audience than a hugh video of 45min++ where users have no idea where to find "functionality xy"!
Just a thought : would you like to have videos made on the same platform or is it cool to show that uDig is platform independent and allow screen casts on different OS's? I would prefer later solution but could make it much more difficult for potential users to fine the functionality on their preferred OS while the cast has been made with some other OS. What kind of tool would you prefer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_screencasting_software). Do you have any experiences with Open Source Software that runs on the three major OS Systems, e.g. * VLC Media player : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player or * Freeseer : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeseer or even * FFmpeg : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg Do you have any suggestions for us? Do you expect to have videos with spoken descriptions? Frank 2012/10/11 andrea antonello <[email protected]>: > Hi PSC and interested members. > > I was thinking that we have too many functionalities that are not > known enough. For example, I know that I like the new regio of > interest, but so much time passed since Jody showed me, that I am not > able to remember. > > My proposal here is to start creating a series of uDig > howto-do-simple-things screencasts. I would never have dared this > before, but I had the feeling that now this can be done with a google > hangout sharing the screen and it would record also voice and then > directly push it to youtube? > If that applies I would give it a run. > > To have that thing feasible, I would suggest 1 video per week. That > would imply that the PSC members rotate on this (everyone is welcome > obviously), so it happens for everyone max once in a month. Ideally > that would really take just the time to popup uDig and do a certain > task. > > I am talking about very short functionalities, kind of: > - how to enable the legend on a map > - how to import a WMS > - how to use the ROI > - how to calculate a map of aspect > - etc etc > > I would like to vote about this, because if we do it, we have to do it > regularly and with passion and we need to be a minimum number of > contributors. > > If we do this, I would start to create a list of proposed > howto-do-the-thing in the wiki with also the week numbers. Then each > member can write his/her name to embrace a task and create the video. > > I hereby ask the PSC to vote on this, :) > Thanks, > Andrea > > PS: if someone knows if what I said above for recording sessions is > true or false, please spek up :) > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
