As promised in the Fedora Videos meeting this week, I proposed an idea on the GSoC 2012 project ideas page that relates to the Fedora Videos project.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2012#Assemble_a_toolc...
The idea I proposed is to assemble a toolchain (a group of tools) for creating screencasts easily. I think this is the biggest challenge that we face in making the Fedora Videos project successful, and seems to have enough depth to fill a summer project.
The output of the project is detailed step-by-step instructions about how to make a professional-looking screencast using software in the Fedora repository. That may included chasing down & fixing bugs in the existing tools, discovering new tools and getting them packaged and learning about techniques in the environment around the computer, such as how to select & setup a microphone or how to draft a good speaking script.
We want to remove all bumps in the road for creating a screencast. The best way to do that is to acknowledge that their likely are bumps and someone needs to really dig into all the steps involved so it can be fun and easy.
-Dan
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Dan Allen dan.j.allen@gmail.com wrote:
As promised in the Fedora Videos meeting this week, I proposed an idea on the GSoC 2012 project ideas page that relates to the Fedora Videos project.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2012#Assemble_a_toolc...
The idea I proposed is to assemble a toolchain (a group of tools) for creating screencasts easily. I think this is the biggest challenge that we face in making the Fedora Videos project successful, and seems to have enough depth to fill a summer project.
The output of the project is detailed step-by-step instructions about how to make a professional-looking screencast using software in the Fedora repository. That may included chasing down & fixing bugs in the existing tools, discovering new tools and getting them packaged and learning about techniques in the environment around the computer, such as how to select & setup a microphone or how to draft a good speaking script.
We want to remove all bumps in the road for creating a screencast. The best way to do that is to acknowledge that their likely are bumps and someone needs to really dig into all the steps involved so it can be fun and easy.
-Dan
Hello Dan,
Thanks for supporting and proposing an idea.
However according to GSoC program, documentation cannot be considered as a part of the project. Only coding/ development is the concern. We should document it ourselves or we can get the students' support to finish the documentation after the GSoC program has finished.
As a result can we add some task to make the idea more acceptable for the program? Following are the identified tasks currently associated with the idea. May be we can set up the infrastructure (like drupal module to host the videos and sort them out and display so that videos can be easily found and submit)
Team ideas welcome !
Task: assemble a toolchain (a recommended collection of software available in the Fedora repositories) chasing down & fixing bugs in the existing tools discovering new tools and getting them packaged add sound recording support to the Gnome 3 desktop recorder
Thanks Dan again for your support.
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