[Board] separate discussion on the value of video archiving

[María Arias de Reyna]

I can't agree more. I used a lot of videos and tutorials when I was
starting in GIS and I still use them a lot after all this years. Can I
survive now without this material? Probably... But for newcomers they are
gold.

In fact, I would propose to have some kind of p2p service for this kind of
materials, so we can have distributed mirrors, maybe by topic, and make
sure we never lost them. Even with the agreement you mention that gives us
a centralised point to store them, a community backup is never too much :)
That will lower their burden too, if some other (University? Company?
Individual?) wants to mirror.

I asked about Foss4g Barcelona videos and they were lost mostly due to not
having a centralised/clear point to upload them at that time. That's a
shame and we shouldn't let it happen again.

I also only work on tutorials in the scope of my company going to foss4g or
my company creating training materials. Maybe we can work on giving more
credit to content owners to see if more content is created?

Btw, great geoserver tutorials, I always use them as example :p


El mié., 20 jun. 2018 1:33, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> escribió:

> As per your request:
>
> I would query how valuable and used archiving has been for the community -
>> potentially better documentation and guides will better serve us. On
>> reviewing the previous stats for videos, even when we archive, it seems we
>> do not hit our intended audience after the events. I’d be happy for a
>> separate discussion on this
>
>
> Background: When going through the sizing exercise for the new osgeo
> website we also identified tutorials, white papers and case studies as
> being the kind of content that is essential for outreach and of value to
> our community. But just because we desire the content does not mean we have
> sorted out a way to mutually-benifitial approach for this content to be
> created. Instead we decided to go with what our community has shown it has
> time and funding to produce ... foss4g presentations.
>
> With this in mind the archiving of talks and videos has been very much
> appreciated by our community. I continually encounter evidence of their
> use, especially for community participants who prefer videos (which is
> awkward when technical material goes out of date).
>
> Indeed this is so much of a priority OSGeo has a strategic relationship
> <https://www.osgeo.org/partners/tib-leibniz-information-centre-for-science-and-technology/>
> with TIB AV-Portal
> <https://www.osgeo.org/resources/tib-av-portal-av-portal-german-national-library-science-technology/>
> to host videos after our events if they are recorded.
>
> It is also really helpful for projects and organizations who get a chance
> to share their presentations after the fact. For examples the geoserver
> blog or company blogs
> <https://www.geo-solutions.it/news/geosolutions-presentations-at-foss4g-boston-2017/>.
> Especially when presenting on a joint collaboration or customer project
> anything that can be shared after the fact provides value beyond those in
> the room.
>
> On a pragmatic front it is a lot easier to get time to work on a
> presentation (because of the publicity and outreach angle) then it is to
> get time to work on documentation and guides. Indeed the only way I get to
> work on the GeoTools tutorials is when a foss4g workshop is accepted :)
> --
> Jody Garnett
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