[Qgis-developer] [FOSS4G2006] QGIS Screencasts CD Proposal

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Mateusz

Some time ago I posted a howto on the wiki

http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/RecordingFlashMovies

Which explains how to create a screencast. Some people have added  
casts to qgis.org and these have proved to be very popular:

http://qgis.org/index.php? 
option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=89&Itemid=77

It would be great to have a well thought out series of these  
screencasts that show the range of activities that can be carried out  
in qgis. Hopefully the urls above will help folks interested in  
getting going with your idea.

Regards

Tim


On 05/08/2006, at 16:55, Mateusz Loskot wrote:

> FOSS4G2006] QGIS Screencasts CD Proposal
>
> Today, I encountered interesting article on LinuxNews.pl website (a
> polish Linux news aggregator)
> about screencasts and Captorials (http://www.captorials.com).  
> Shortly, I
> started to think about promoting QGIS on FOSS4G 2006 (and not only on
> FOSS4G) with screencasts. I had a short chat with Gary on the #qgis  
> and
> he told me he was also thinking about similar idea. Here, I'd like to
> present my proposal of "QGIS Screencasts CD" promotion activity.
>
> What is a screencast?
>
> Here is the answer:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screencast
>
> What is Captorials.com?
>
> Simply, it's a video-based helpdesk center:
> "Captorials.com holds homebrew screen-recordings, also known as
> screencasts or simply, captorials."
>
> What's the idea of "QGIS Screencasts CD"?
>
> Captorials.com idea provoked me to think about QGIS Screencasts CD.
> Inspiration
>
> I believe there is no need to explain why screencasts are nice idea to
> promote Quantum GIS.
> In a few words, I see following roles that screencasts can play:
> - a (revolutionary) way of providing support - especially for
> non-technical users
> - portable presentation of QGIS features without installation
> - promotion - everyone likes gadgets, movies, presentations, etc.
>
> Plan
>
> The idea is simple and consists of following tasks:
> 1. Collect a bunch of QGIS screencasts
> 2. Prepare >= 100 CDs with collected screencasts (burn + prepare  
> labels)
> 3. Distribute the QGIS Screencasts CD on the FOSS4G 2006
> 4. Provide availability to download screencasts or the complete CD  
> from
> QGIS website
>
> The most difficult and time-consuming task is the first one.
> Here, I hope it's possible to find 5-15 QGIS users and developers
> interested in delivering screencasts about various QGIS features. To
> simplify this tasks, we could record QGIS User Guide sections as
> screencasts.
> If there would be 10-15 people and everyone could record 1 screencast,
> then I think we have the whole CD ready :-)
>
> The second task is much simplier.
> If there would be >= 5 of us and everyone could burn 5-10 CDs, then we
> could collect 100 CDs quite easily.
> We'd also need someone to create and print nice CD labels :-)
>
> Distribution is easy:
> - there will be two QGIS workshops, so that should be a nice  
> opportunity
> to distribute CDs
> -
> - .... (I don't know about other QGIS activities, but it should not  
> be a
> problem to distribute CDs)
>
> AFter FOSS4G, all screencasts may be put on the QGIS website or
> Captorials.com to download.
>
>
>
> There are 4-5 weeks left to FOSS4G, so I believe it's feasible.
>
> I can promise to prepare 1-2 screencasts and to burn 50 CDs.
> When we meet on FOSS4G, we would need an hour or two to put labels  
> on CDs.
>
> I'm looking forward to hear your comments!
>
> p.s. I'm posting this proposal to following lists:
> qgis-user at lists.qgis.org
> qgis-developer at lists.qgis.org
>
>
> Best regards
> -- 
> Mateusz Loskot
> http://mateusz.loskot.net
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Tim Sutton
tim at linfiniti.com



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