What software do you use to make screencasts? I would potentially like to make some screencasts myself.
On Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 11:47:46 AM UTC-4, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > The following is a slightly edited communication (email? posting?) from > Steve Litt, apparently from sometime in 2014. Steve, any comments about > this summary will be appreciated. > > I'm not sure whether the videos I have already made meet Steve's > suggestions. As I see it, *this is the only truly important item left on > Leo's todo list*. > > *EKR summary*: Videos will encourage magazine editors to write about Leo. > > *Get more fans who can write and who are listened to*. To do that, you'd > need to give them enough of a burning desire to spend a few days learning > the ins and outs of Leo. > > *Leo has an image problem*. Mention Leo, and most people say "it's an > outliner." If that's all Leo was, VimOutliner would have eaten Leo's lunch > years ago. VimOutliner is faster and has the 90% of outlining features that > people use 90% of the time. 95% of the population will never believe they > need an outliner or that an outliner would do them any good, or that > outlining is a skill they need to bother to acquire. > > *Make a 3 minute video* > > Leo is a mechanism by which you can specify a computer program as an > outline-like thing in an outliner-like setting, flip a switch, and bang, > there's your program. *That's* what's going to hook people. > > *Video 1*: Show how to compose an application outline and turn it into a > program. > > The program can be trivially simple, but make the program as 2014 relevant > as possible: A web app would be nice. At the end of the video explain that > although this video's program was simple, Leo can be used to make > arbitrarily complex apps, and make them well. > > *Video 2*: Show how to make a GUI app. > > *Video 3*: Show how to write a book in Leo. > > Flip a switch, and have it be a book, flip it back, and see your book as > an outline again, ready for changes, either minor, or structurally major. > > *Publicize these videos* > > You're going to get some journalists excited, and those are your reviews. > > *Start publicizing different ways people use Leo* > > Encourage them to write in with their unique uses, and publicize them. I > bet people are doing things with Leo you never dreamed of, and some of > those things might be the itch some journalist wants to scratch. > > That's all I have from my notes. All comments welcome. > > Edward > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
