X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 08:39:10 +0100 (CET) X-X-Sender: igor2 AT igor2priv To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Debug: to=geda-user AT delorie DOT com from="gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu" From: gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu Subject: [geda-user] [pcb-rnd] call for participation: voice acting and video editing Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Hi gEDA users, for padstacks, I plan to produce a few tutorial videos, similar to this one about subcircuits: https://archive.org/details/pcb-rnd-subc-filter We could do it using our existing resources, but any time I spend on editing video and Erich spends on recording the narration will take time away from coding new features or fixing bugs. To further increase the already record speed of pcb-rnd progress, ideally those who are doing the coding and testing would concentrate on that and we could involve new contributors for helping in with the videos.^1 Thus I am calling for participation, especially those who are following pcb-rnd development but are not yet involved: 1. voice acting (narration): you need to be a native English speaker and you need to have a microphone. We'd send you a script that you need to record in a voice file and send back. Estimated effort: 15..30 minutes per video (1..2 hours a month) 2. video editing: you need to be familiar with a video editing tool (or willing to learn it to a basic level). You get a raw video file (desktop recording), a few still images and the narration as an audio file. You also get a "screenplay" roughly tagged with time stamps. Your task is to edit the final video, combining all the input, making sure the narration is in sync with the picture. We don't need to do effects, captioning and the voice-picture sync easily has a tolerance of 1..2 seconds. Estimated effort (assuming minimal experience with video editing): 30..60 minutes per video (2..4 hours a month). It doesn't matter if you haven't ever used pcb-rnd; it doesn't even matter if you don't do PCBs at all. The task is about audio and video, not about PCBs - feel free to tell your non-PCB-designer friends about this opportunity. Benefits: you can get some experience with tutorial videos that will actually help people get things learned/done and you can be active part of the a very productive, positive and constructive community^2. If you are interested in any of this, please send me a mail or join IRC ( http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/irc.html ) Best regards, Igor2 Footnotes: ^1: by now there are about 3..4 people commiting to svn _daily_, another 3..4 hard core testers spending a lot of time on testing latest features on production boards, _daily_, providing a steady stream of bugrepots. And another 5..6 contributors who regularly come back to report bugs or do small fixes/improvements (at least monthly but some of them weekly). On one hand I would like to avoid distracting these people from doing their excellent job they are already doing. On the other hand nothing is ever enough so I'd like to increase team size further and audio/video is a real cheap way to join the project. (But feel free to join in any other role; we need testers, users willing to write text and programmers too.) ^2: I more and more experience that the community around pcb-rnd is a great thing in itself. Even if we didn't fix 1..2 decade old design problems and bugs, even if we didn't add support for a dozen file formats, even if we didn't clean up the core infrasrtucture, the whole pcb-rnd effort would have already worth it for the community that grew around it.