Hey Jason! Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 17:33, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> > wrote: > I'm looking at > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Gnome3In30Seconds and > http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/82744.html -- I'm > downloading some of the videos, but my connection is really > slow right now so I can't judge whether any of them are ready > to go up on gnome3.org. (Also, Jason said they'd need to be > refilmed about now anyway -- updated, I assume.) > > There are still some outstanding theme changes and some UI changes > that just landed so there's nothing ready to post. I had, at one time, > hoped I'd have time to post videos in beta quality (similar to the > video you downloaded) with an overlay on the video so that they > wouldn't be re-posted on tech. blogs but I never had time to do that > and they would have to be re-filmed now that the UI has changed, > anyway. > > I've reserved my free time from the 11th through the 20th for filming > and post-production. How many will I finish during that time? I don't > know. I've asked for help several times throughout the past year and a > half and haven't gotten any offers except for some help with music, so > as far as I know, it's just me working on them, even though I posted > that complete HOWTO. Would love the help but I'm afraid the technical > learning curve is too high for anyone not familiar with video and > video editing and we're just too close to the deadline for me to > invest any time in training someone else.
Thanks for the update. Do you think it would be desirable for us to put out a set of more basic videos or screencasts in the interim? There is obviously a lot of interest in some of the GNOME 3 features that you cannot show using screenshots. Also - as you know - there have been a number of decidedly substandard screencasts appear on the web. We could slap a beta label on them if that would help. There are one or two people who might be willing to help with this, but I don't want it to conflict with what you are working on, and I want to ensure that what we are putting out is of sufficiently high quality. On a separate subject, there are a couple of things I'd like to see covered in our videos, from a design and marketing pov: * Accessing the activities overview: this is the most basic operation people need to learn to use the GNOME 3 desktop. The video would cover the three ways of entering and exiting the overview (activities button, hot corner, windows key [we need a better name for that!]). * Arranging your windows: a subject on which there has been recent attention; also a place where users might benefit from seeing how it works. The video would cover drag to maximise/unmaximise, double click to maximise/unmaximise, and half-screen tiling. * A walk around the overview: introduce the key parts of the activities overview (dash, windows view, applications view, workspaces switcher, messaging tray). Would give a quick introduction and demonstration of each one. Any thoughts? (Apologies - I know it's late in the day to be bring this up.) I can write scripts for these, if you'd like. Best wishes, Allan -- Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
