On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:05:56AM -0700, Jessica Tomechak wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Chip Childers > <chip.child...@sungard.com>wrote: > > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 01:12:40PM -0700, Jessica Tomechak wrote: > > > Now Urgent!! Gregg will be starting in just a couple of weeks. Last year, > > > we churned for several weeks after his arrival. Let's avoid that this > > time. > > > > > > What do we want? > > > Education videos from Sebastien's list? > > > How-to videos left over from last year's Video Plan? > > > > > > Need to know in the next few days, so the correct person can attend the > > > Mentor Orientation from Gregg's sponsoring organization. > > > > > > Mathias/Sebastien, if you want to use Gregg for education videos, please > > > speak up and make some materials available. We'll need outlines and > > > storyboards. Gregg can help generate those if all you have so far is > > ideas. > > > > > > If you're not going to be ready to take advantage of Gregg's presence, I > > > will plan to work with him as I did last year. We still have a list of > > > video requests that we didn't get around to last time. > > > > > > Jessica T. > > > > Perhaps you can run with this Jessica? > > > > Chip, > I am totally on board to run with this. I am just looking to collaborate > with the community on which direction to go. From much previous discussion > on this list, I've seen that showing up with a finished work item and > "throwing it over the wall" is frowned upon. We're intended to develop in > the open, and get feedback on proposed projects.
Absolutely true! But your email above is asking for someone to "take point". I was asking if you wanted to do it yourself. > > Perhaps if I throw out some more specific suggestions, people can vote or > respond. > > I just want to get some suggestions of what topics would be most helpful to > cover. I don’t want to waste the short time that Gregg has to act as a > contributor to the project. > > Some Visual Styles: > > Whiteboard talk > > "Talking head" interview > > Screencast > > Animation > > Tongue in cheek animation (xtranormal?) > > Sketchnotes (hand drawn animation with narration) > IMO, style depends on the topic. > > Some Possible Technical Topics: > > What's new in 4.1, in 4.2 I think that longevity of a video about the releases is too short. -0 on that one. > > How to install (quick install, or advanced install) > We already have some of these floating around, so -0. > Hypervisor installation (for each supported hypervisor) > -0 > How to set up networking > +0 - It's really complex though, so I'd be curious how it would be put into video form. > Top 10 interesting clouds people have set up > +100 - if we have users willing to do it. > Conceptual overview of Cloudstack deployment (zones, pods, etc) > +1 on this one too. Conceptual constructs aren't likely to change dramatically in the short term. > Datacenter concepts (what is a datacenter, what hardware will you need, how > does a rack correlate to a cloudstack pod, etc) > > Overview of Cloudstack implementation architecture (code modules and their > relationships) – this one might be fairly short shelf life > -0 on the two above > Networking: > http://cloudstack.org/forum/8-storage-and-networking/10370-an-advanced-networking-video-or-webinar-is-sorely-needed.html > I'd actually suggest that a webinar is the right way to do a networking video, so that it's interactive if required... and more easily produced than a finished video product. > > (1) A video that shows someone installing a host with a single ethernet > card that is going to be shared with the the managment and guest network > and public networks. How the VLANS would be setup on the sell or cisco > switch to accomplish this, or > > (2) A video showing someone installing a zone with the hosts having > separate nics for management/guest, public, and storage networks and an > example of setting up the VLANS, or > > (3) A video showing different scenarios of setting up the VLANS with > different amount of nics in the hypervisor hosts. > > Jessica T.
