Seems to be a very good initiative. It would be great to implement
something like this on the official open erp website.
I have several concerns to be solved with such videos, before
implementing an official system:
1. Maintenance is quite complex. In a classic documentation, you just
have to change a few lines when the software change after a new version,
but here, you have to redo all the videos
2. We should avoid doing two times the same information, with the books
and the videos.
3. Translations should be managed efficiently.
4. What about third party's websites ?
Any suggestion are welcome to find a solution to these issues. I start
with a few thought:
For 1:
* We should have a system of tag, where we tag on which version the
video apply (and it can works for several version, if the feature did
not changed too much)
* We can manage maintenance if you succeed to create incentives for
contributor that do videos. They are several way to create incentive:
publicity, money, ...
For 2:
* I think books and videos must be linked together. When reading the
books, we should be able to zoom to a video, or the text to explain a
video should be the book (not another text). This will simplify
maintenance and increase collaboration. We need a strong integration
between both systems.
* Same for comments about the user, do they have to be in the book or in
the videos.
* If we merge books and videos, we also have to do two table of
contents: one for the chapters, one for the videos.
For 3:
* No idea, we have to check if there is an easy way to change comments
in a flash video, from scripts.
For 4:
* If we implement a system, what about third party's websites, like
aulaERP ? I think they should have a way to be integrated to the
official system too. What we did with openerp.tv is a good example, you
upload your videos on blip.tv, and they appear on openerp.tv, after
validation. But this should be improve and generalized.
These issues have to be solved, mainly because it's much more complex to
maintain a good documentation than to write it for the first time.
(motivation of the authors decrease from months to months)
Thanks,
--
Fabien Pinckaers
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