Mail Archives: geda-user/2017/11/15/02:29:59
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.
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