Campaign to grow the number of tutorials videos
Meeting agenda and possible work items to think about:
- Investigate existing documentation. Prioritise topics.
- Separate topics into distinct stories which can be independent
videos.
- Write script for top 5 videos.
- Work with Screencasts Team/XDA people on recording videos.
- Publish.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Jono Bacon
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Daniel Holbach
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Daniel Holbach
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- Accepted for trusty
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
Notes:
- Previous discussion: http://
- possible videos:
- how to install the SDK
- writing a full, very simple QML app
- bare-bones app in QtCreator (choose template, edit a bit, run, etc.)
- 5 minutes is what we want.
- work going into a video:
- prepare content, prepare examples
- write script
- get script double checked
- record video
- Record video of titles
- Record actual video of tutorial
- Smoosh together video parts (automated if possible)
- upload it
- get it reviewed
- (get it translated)
Lowest Common Denominator: Record English first in Audio & Video from a written script. Get the script translated. Upload translated subtitles to YouTube along with original video. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
5 minutes videos
Tools: (all from repo or sdk ppa)
- Kazam or ffmpeg (cli)
- Slide templates for open and close (as simple as possible to implement)
- melt for smooshing slides and videos together
Videos:
- 5 minutes long max
- All the packages that are required for the video should be available from the Ubuntu archive
- We'll need instructions on how to create a video
- Publish the videos on the appdev account on YouTube
- Run on a standard Ubuntu desktop (Not a guest session as you'll keep losing things)
- Topic-based
- Arc structure to videos.
- Show progression and build a playlist to make this happen in order
- Record on a clean, stock machine. Do NOT record on an atypical machine.
http://
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Content:
- Foundations
- install SDK, run SDK (QtCreator),
- brief tour of SDK
- UI Toolkit overview (walkthrough in the Gallery app)
- Design.
- Flashing a device in preparation for testing apps
- Design tips
- Platform
- Overview of Platform
- App lifecycle
- Tools
- (Intro to bzr)
- (intro to Launchpad)
- Testing: how to write an autopilot test
- Writing apps
- Creating a simple HTML5 app
- Creating a simple QML tabbed app
- Interesting libraries
- Location detection
- Online accounts
- Box2D
- Content Hub
- Testing apps
- Testing app locally on the desktop
- Testing app on the device
- Using autopilot / writing tests
- Publishing apps
- Validating your app before uploading to the store
- Click Store
- Updating your app in the store
- Post-publishing
- Getting feedback from your users / maintaining an app(?) (You're in the Store...Now What?)
Work Items
Work items for ubuntu-13.12:
[dholbach] prepare slide templates for opening and closing of the video (talk to the Design team): TODO
[popey] Create a script to output a video: TODO
[popey] write up instructions for putting videos together, publish: TODO
[dholbach] set up wiki page with a table of videos and assignees: TODO
[dholbach] announce project on mailing lists, social media, screencasts list: TODO
[popey] Create initial video on installing the SDK: TODO
[dpm] Find the access data ubuntuappdeveloper (http://
[dholbach] merge workshops of dpm and karni (covering 'foundations'
[dpm] Get the videos published and discoverable on d.u.c: TODO
[dholbach] investigate if we can get the videos embedded in qtcreator: TODO
