Re: Question about Task Listed

Hi Harold,

Thanks for looking into this.

On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 14:03:04 Harold Schreckengost wrote:
> Oh!  Apologies!
> 
> https://community.kde.org/Promo/Get_Involved/Jobs#Solve_Technical.2FOrganisa
> tional_Problems
> 
> The first task listed here, I'm very interested in.  Stuart (listed as the
> contact) noted that he was out of the loop lately.  I mostly just need to
> know who handles video as it is now.

I think this wiki entry has to be seen in a wider context. Right now, when 
we're talking about promo videos, we have only scattered efforts by 
individuals, nothing like shared storybooks, assets or workflows, there's not 
even a canonical way to find "official KDE videos" on youtube. The wiki page 
mentions blip.tv, I dunno is that even still a thing?

On the other hand,  we can reach a pretty big audience. The 2 videos I've done 
for Plasma 5.0 (a short and a long version, which are hosted on my youtube 
account, not an official KDE account) have combined 225.000 views by now.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not "the video guy" at KDE, I just jump in to help 
with promo stuff once in a while. I do have some background in marketing (in 
general, and in KDE) though. I know that the videos I produced aren't really 
great, but it's what I could do without a lot of experience. Many of these 
things get better with experience, and I think we need people who can help us 
with publishing cooler videos of our work.

What I missed when making the videos was that I had to figure out the whole 
workflow myself, from making shorter videos of specific features, to system 
setup, how to blend in titles, what and how to encode properly for this 
purpose, as well as graphical assets suitable for use. That makes this quite a 
time-consuming task. I think if this workflow is defined in terms of tips and 
tricks, targeted howtos and example material, that would make it way easier to 
produce cool videos. Perhaps we can help each other then, developer shoots a 
short film of a new feature, and someone from the promo team can then do the 
"production" of it as a short clip suitable for a user audience.

I think using more video would be great as promo material, for user support 
(explanation of features), but also to "show off" cool stuff we can do. For 
many people, who don't experience our software first hand, videos are a way to 
connect to our work before dipping in entirely.

As to the task, perhaps it could be redefined and divided into subtasks as:
- requirement analysis
	- documentation (workflows, technicals, ...?)
	- graphical, audio and other assets
	- accounts and offical blessing for these
	- people who can do voice over?
- finding more people who'd like to help with this topic, perhaps the work 
resulting from the requirements analysis can be split
- getting started with the actual production (this ideally is done while 
writing documentation, as the best way to write docs is to try doing it and 
then describe what's going on).
- producing more, shiny videos
- pre-selecting audio background clips (license requirements, suggestions for 
titles and their download locations)

So I think the big picture is that we want to promote KDE software by 
producing high quality videos. We achieve this higher quality by shared 
assets, documentation, workflows and sharing the work among us. The above are 
really just a few ideas of what I think would help. Picking up any of these 
tasks is welcome, even more thinking about it freely (we're not married to 
anything specific right now, it's more just one big glaring hole in our promo 
work), and attacking the problem in a pro-active way.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

Sebastian Kügler    |    http://vizZzion.org    |     http://kde.org


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