[Users] Getting some 3.1 screencasts

[Dave Neary]

Hi everyone,

At the team meeting today Jason Clift suggested that it would be great 
to have some screencasts for the 3.1 release. I agree. So let's see if 
we can make some!

To spread the load as much as possible, here's what I propose:

1. We come up with a set (5-10) of demo stories we want to tell in the 
wiki. These should contain:
  * The feature we want to demo
  * The "before recording" set-up that needs to be done
  * The steps to demo the feature
  * A quick script that someone can follow to explain what they're doing.

I'd like a few of these scripts to be for existing oVirt features (say, 
migrating a VM to a different node) and a few to be for features which 
are new in 3.1 (see the release notes at 
http://ovirt.org/wiki/Release_Notes_Draft for details there, we should 
pick one or two nice visible features like all-in-one install).

2. From the scripts, we record the demos as .ogv using RecordMyDesktop 
or GNOME Shell's built-in desktop recording

3. Finally, we do voice-overs to add a sound track to the demo (and if 
we have any skilled sound engineers, some tasteful CC licenced 
background music would be great!)

This way, we've broken down the creation of 5 screencasts into 15 
different byte-sized tasks - script, video, voiceover - none of which 
should take someone more that 20 minutes or half an hour - which 
hopefully will make it easier to get them done together.

How does this plan sound?

If it sounds good, which features do you think we should screencast as 
top priority?

Thanks!
Dave.
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Dave Neary
Community Action and Impact
Open Source and Standards Team, Red Hat
Phone: +33 9 50 71 55 62