Mission: Video blogging Fedora screencasts for use in Miro

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> Who's up to the challenge of creating an experimental rss feed for
> Fedora tutorial screencasts in theora that we can use in miro out of
> the box in Fedora 9?
>
> I've been trying to find a spare machine at work to host this sort of
> thing... but I've just utterly failed.  I was hoping to surprise
> everyone with a workable demo that you could submit theora vids to for
> me to host as a starting point for figuring out how to really deal
> with open video content in a user accessible way.  I think miro is a
> workable solution.  But I've failed to deliver.
>
> So now I'm asking everyone on this list for help.
>
> Can someone put together a simple rss feed with just a couple of theora 
> videos that miro understands as a channel?  It doesn't have to be a huge 
> hosting commitment. We don't need to start with a Broadcast Machine 
> implementation and use Miro's inherent ability to speak torrent.  We 
> should be able to demo a feed using video houses in Fedora's people 
> space.
>
> Once we have that, we can figure out how best to host additional 
> screencast material as part of our Project communication strategy.  I 
> think doing torrents might make some sense, but we have to talk with 
> infrastructure concerning hosting space requirements.  And we'll have to 
> figure out how the access control model we want to use...well I should 
> say 'you' want to use. I'm very sure that the policy with regard to 
> editorial control of an official Fedora video feed should be in the 
> hands of the marketeers with input from docs and translators.
>
> Once we have that, we can move on beyond screencasts into web camera 
> interviews and so on and so on.
>
> So who's game. I really have to apologize for not having the time to get 
> a hosting instance together for videos as a starting point for a full 
> discussion.

If you can point me to:

(a) A cheatsheet on how to set this up;
(b) A couple of smallish videos;

I can give it a shot.  I'll put my personal web space on the line to get 
us started.

--g