[FM Discuss] how to show off booki?

Joshua Facemyer jfacemyer at gmail.com
Wed Aug 18 04:38:45 PDT 2010


I am not a guru, but I have a little experience, and will soon have some 
more, editing video.

If nobody more better than I will do this, I would like to.  But only if 
nobody with more skillz will.

JF

On 08/18/2010 12:32 AM, adam wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 13:32 -0400, Joshua Facemyer wrote:
>    
>> I think that would be a great start.
>>
>> It would be cool to show a split screen with the screencast on one side
>> and the concurrent activity of the sprinters on the other, showing some
>> collaboration from both perspectives.  Maybe that wouldn't work out so
>> well, but if it did, I think would be a great effect.
>>
>> We'd also need some narration, which, I think, you should provide, Adam :)
>>
>>      
> ok...anyone else into this? perhaps we could time this to happen with
> the toronto event - scott any chance you could have a video cam at the
> event and send me a tape or upload some snippets?
>
> and any guru editors out there that could cut this footage up into
> something nice?
>
> adam
>
>
>    
>> JF
>>
>> On 08-17-10 1:21 PM, adam wrote:
>>      
>>> a screencast is a good start...maybe can we do a mini one day sprint on
>>> a manual and then screencast that and take snippets?
>>>
>>> we could maybe add some footage of realspace sprinters...I could
>>> organise a few in Berlin...how does that sound?
>>>
>>>
>>> adam
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 10:10 -0400, Joshua Facemyer wrote:
>>>        
>>>> I assume that would mean a screencast, although it probably wouldn't
>>>> hurt to put some real life footage of a sprint in it.
>>>>
>>>> I would think the most important things should be highlighted -
>>>> concurrent editing, history, ease of use, different types of output,
>>>> versioning, etc.  Maybe pick 5 or six things, keep it very simple, but
>>>> make it obvious.
>>>>
>>>> I'd be happy to help with this, but I'm not the right person to decide
>>>> what features to highlight (or whether this is the correct direction).
>>>>
>>>> JF
>>>>
>>>> On 08-17-10 8:36 AM, adam hyde wrote:
>>>>          
>>>>> hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just had a very interesting chat about finding potential funding for
>>>>> FLOSS Manuals and Booki. One question that came up was - how do we show
>>>>> people Booki in action so that funders would 'get it'?
>>>>>
>>>>> A suggestion was to log in while a Book Sprint was in action but this is
>>>>> obviously a little tricky since it would require either a good deal of
>>>>> logistics or luck to make sure a sprint was happening at the right
>>>>> moment.
>>>>>
>>>>> The next 'obvious' proposal was to make a movie.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone on the list have any other ideas? Also, if we did make a
>>>>> movie, is there anyone that would help with this and what would a movie
>>>>> like this look like? Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> adam
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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