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We approve and publish all videos on WordPress.tv as well as help WordCamps with video post-production and captioning and subtitling of published videos.
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Video Editing — You can see what videos we have that need editing in this spreadsheet. No special credentials are needed, just download the raw video file, and use your favorite app to edit.
Subtitles/captions — You can help us extend the reach of of WordPress.tv by adding captions or subtitles to any published video. Just find your favorite video, and follow the steps here to create a caption/translation file and submit for review.
We use Slack for real-time communication. As contributors live all over the world, there are discussions happening at all hours of the day.
We have weekly team meetings every Thursday, and they are open to the public! Our next meeting is Thursday at 17:00 UTC in the #wptv channel on Slack. (Find out more about Slack.)
You’re welcome to listen in, or say “hi” and introduce yourself if you’d like to help.
For this week (Friday July 15th) our video wrap up post will be focused on recent videos that are of interest to new WordPress users.
As with last week, given that WCEU happened recently and is fresh in everyone’s mind, let’s focus on videos from that camp. There are plenty of sessions to choose from and all are great quality, so what is your favorite WCEU session targeted at developers? Let’s feature it on our blog!
Just so we are all up-to-date on the camera equipment. This is the current layout for the cases.
We have some kits that have cameras and equipment for two setups.
These cases look like this:
These cases have two containers (one with camera equipment and one with audio equipment), two tripods, gaffers tape and a misc equipment bag (red)
We also have single camera cases.
In each case are containers with pictures and names of the equipment inside.
This container has all the camera equipment.
and another container has all the audio equipment with names and pictures of the equipment.
And inside each case is a list with pictures and names of the misc equipment not listed in the other containers.
Each case has each piece of equipment, in that case, colored coded to make it easier to get the correct equipment back in the correct case.
Examples of color coded equipment.
We also have QR codes on the tripods, the handle mounts and the audio transmitter and receivers.
Scanning the QR code will show a short video for setting up and using each piece of equipment.
(Scan one and give it a try).
88W Wireless Mics
Sunpack Tripods
Mount Brackets
Travel Tripod
And we have instruction sheets for each of the cameras (with a link to the mfg manual at the bottom of each sheet).
We also have Livestream camera equipment but that’s for another post.
This looks great! Very Pro! 🙂
Thanks Ben. In the last year, or so, we have streamlined the kits to make them easier to use.
This is the latest result of that process.
Nicely done Michael! Greatly appreciated. The color coding worked great at WordCamp Northeast Ohio. This is a nice addition.
The color coding has seemed to help. Before each camera had a different color. That has been simplified now so all the pieces in each case has only one color.
Awesome job @roseapplemedia I can see why you get shout outs from WC organizers!
This kit layout is a result of all those discussions and projects we tried!!
Some worked – others not so much.
Well this looks like it works very well. 🙂
This looks perfect @roseapplemedia. I learned today that these are the US Kits “only”.
If anybody would like more info about the EU Kits, the latest inventory seems to be this one: https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=5943DEC1971B3D5F!29918&ithint=file%2cdocx&app=Word&authkey=!AEmCqHFBQmEQOKY
We met in Community Slack last week to discuss how things are going on WordPress.tv and here is what we discussed:
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Full transcript of the meeting here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/wptv/p1467910896001304
Want to join our meeting next week? See the blue box at the top of the page to see when our next meeting is!
Jerry, why a new spreadsheet with videos to edit and not the same as usual? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ChmbPMJqXcxArEgqJFnLSY8NECJiHokuB3Fh-zYlMWw/edit#gid=461978824
The new spreadsheet in under a WordPress account. I am trying to separate those spreadsheets away from my personal account.
Is there an issue with the new spreadsheet?
No, thank you it’s completely ok. Just asked why… 😉
If I get “hit by a bus” the spreadsheet will now live on. 🙂
Also, don’t ever (ever) get hit by a bus. 😉
After talking with @jwparky, we decided to swap the days we post on, and the weekly video roundup post will be going out on Fridays now, and the John’s interview posts will be going out on Tuesdays (we’re switching) as this fits both our schedules better.
For this week (Friday July 8th) our video wrap up post will be focused on Recent videos that are of interest to new WordPress users.
Given that WCEU happened recently and is fresh in everyone’s mind, I thought it’d be cool to focus on new user WordCamp sessions from that camp, so with that in mind, what is your favorite WCEU session targeted at new users? Let’s feature it on our blog for everyone to see!
“Theming in WordPress – Where do I start?” by Edmund Turbin http://wordpress.tv/2016/07/03/edmund-turbin-theming-wordpress-where-start/
“WordPress, state of the accessibility” by Rian Rietveld http://wordpress.tv/2016/06/30/rian-rietveld-wordpress-state-of-the-accessibility/
“Handling Anxiety” by Tom Nowell http://wordpress.tv/2016/07/01/tom-nowell-short-talks-handling-anxiety/
Website Security – The Big Picture w/ Simple Steps to Take by Aaron Campbell
https://wordpress.tv/2016/07/03/aaron-campbell-website-security-big-picture-take-simple-steps/
WCEU did a nice job labeling sessions.
We met last Thursday to discuss the state of WPTV for another week. Here is what we talked about:
Incoming WordCamp videos – What is our current status, what are we expecting soon
WCEU and WC Antwerp are uploading to AWS.
Post Production/Publishing – What videos do we have that need post production work. Are there pending videos in WPTV that need out help in publishing? How can the team help?
Will have WC Asheville for post soon. WC Antwerp is trimmed but does not have intro/outro
Outreach – Camps we’ve heard from, camps we may want to reach out to
Camps for the month of July have been contacted
WPTV Blog – What have we posted recently, what are we planning to post*
@johnparkinson in publishing another interview post on Friday continuing a twice-monthly schedule
Subtitling/captioning – do we have new captions to approve this week? New videos that can be captioned?
This is a new weekly agenda item. Lots of interest post WCEU, which is great to see. @casiepa mentioned he is willing to work on a script to convert Youtube caption formats to work with WordPress.tv, and also @extraboy brought it up with the community team while at WCEU.
Starting out, we will ask captioners (captioneers?) to try and complete captions/subs for two videos this week, and report back about how that went, working toward making this a weekly update on the things we are adding captions to. If you only have time to work on captioning one video a week, even a short one, is fine too. Any help would be great!
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Full transcript of the meeting here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/wptv/p1467306089000639
Want to join our meeting next week? See the blue box at the top of the page to see when our next meeting is!
Thank you for the recap, @jerrysarcastic.
I would like to add our discussion about videopress / youtube / redesign of WPTV. @jerrysarcastic mentioned that he is still waiting to hear back about the YT proposal https://make.wordpress.org/tv/2016/05/26/youtube-proposal/.
The transcript of that part of the meeting starts here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/wptv/p1467308609000825
I was asked by Rocío Valdivia (@_dorsvenabili) to lead WordPress.tv team in the Contributor Day at WCEU this year. How could I say no? I contribute actively to WordPress.tv for exactly one year (since I visited WCEU 2015) and it was a nice occasion for celebrate 🎉
Below are some notes and stories that I collected with the help of various participants during the WCEU 2016 and the Contributor Day. Thank you all!
Olegs Belousovs presenting the WordPress TV team at WordCamp Europe 2016 Contributor Day
The state of subtitles on http://WordPress.tv could use some improvement.
Source: Morten the Northman (@mor10) June 25, 2016
A mockup proposal for WordPress.tv website created by the WPTV team at the WordCamp Europe 2016 Contributor Day
Picture by Sven Wagener (@mahype)
We have still some unresolved tickets for WordPress.tv project: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&status=reviewing&component=WordPress.tv&col=id&col=summary&col=component&col=status&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=keywords&order=priority
Most of the pictures was taken from the video shooted by Florian Gottschall (@floriang) and his team during WCEU 2016.
I would like to say THANK YOU to the WordCamp Europe 2016 organizers, volunteers, sponsors, attendees and to all the people who showed up on Sunday at the WPTV room 😉
Thanks a lot to Rocío Valdivia (@_dorsvenabili) for pinged me and asked to lead the WordPress TV team at this Contributor Day and to Alex Kirk (@akirk) for tech support during the day.
I was sad that my team members could not come to this WCEU, 🙁 but I’ll try to be at WCUS 2016. 😉
Please, share your thoughts in the comments below and if something is missing from these notes or if I forgot to mention someone please write it.
Wow, what a productive session. I’ll need to read it again to get a handle on this much info.
Super!
Agreed Michael! Sounds like a lot of great ideas came out your sessions Olegs. Well done!
Outstanding update @xtraboy! Sounds like it was super productive and we’re getting more people involved. Great job!
Awesome post Oleg! Thanks for sharing. Hope we could see this more often on other WordCamps. Cheers!!!
Those are some incredible achievements for one Contributor Day. Thumbs up @xtraboy and all the wonderful people involved.
Great recap @xtraboy! Thanks to you and the other contributors for such a productive Contributor Day at WCEU 2016. Thanks for contributing and sharing! 🙂
Thank you for the great recap @xtraboy! Well done with your hospitality and friendly welcoming manner. Looking forward to go on in the meeting today.
We met today to discuss the state of WPTV for another week. Here is what we talked about:
We also took a bit of time to discuss @oleg‘s proposal to bring more vodcast and interview content onto our site, from existing YT channels. Full post is here if you’d like to comment.
Full transcript of the meeting here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/wptv/p1466096511000123
Want to join our meeting next week? See the blue box at the top of the page to see when our next meeting is!
Here are 4 videos I was able to do over the past few days. Please take a look and make comments and suggestions!
Michael Wiginton – via Skype
Chris Lema – in person
Shelby Elliott – in person
Adam Warner – in person
I think these look great John. The ones at NEO especially work well!
For next week (Tuesday June 21th) we are going to publish our next “Featured on WPTV” post on blog.wordpress.tv. and our theme for this post is Featured WordCamp – videos selected from a recent WordCamp (last 30 days) with user and/or dev focused videos.
Have you noticed any recent videos that show off a great recent WordCamp and has both good audio quality, and slides are clearly visible or edited in? Please post here in the comments, thanks! 🙂
@emanweb I am carrying your suggestion from last week over as I think it fits well here:
My vote: The JavaScript track at WordCamp Miami was awesome. https://2016.miami.wordcamp.org/2016/01/06/announcing-learn-javascript-deeply-track/
https://wordpress.tv/event/wordcamp-miami-2016/
Do you have a favorite video or two from that track? 🙂
Jerry, here are 2 videos that might be a good mix.
https://wordpress.tv/2016/05/02/kids-wordpress-panel-discussion/
https://wordpress.tv/2016/04/21/rachel-carden-tools-and-techniques-for-evaluating-accessibility/
At Mods Team we are all working hard on editing, reviewing and posting the content from various WordCamps and WordPress Related Events. Making a video interviews for WPTV is a really great idea by @jwparky, thank you John for all your help and effort you put in 😉 and to all the people showing up in our Slack #wptv channel. In any case, it takes a lot of time and for now only John is interested in making it real (of course with our support 😀).
I have this idea, started in our todays mod chat meeting, about searching for the already existent content and people in the community who already producing great video interviews, there are already several.
Why just not take all the great video content, already produced by people from the community, and make our WPTV blog a central platform of all the videos about WordPress? (Making sure they meets your video guidelines.)
We can follow some channels with our YouTube account and stay up to date on all the new materials coming online.
Some channels to consider (in my opinion):
I think reposting only the videos from WPTV, hand picked by us, is not enough, and we can take more advantage of the WPTV blog, which was completely dormant since some years, and transform it in a wider platform.
Let’s bring all the forces together and everybody wins 😉 📺
Please, I need your feedback on this idea
I think this is a very cool idea. The blog is an awesome avenue for exposing a wide array of community content. I especially believe that as blog posts are being put together with the intent of showcasing specific topics, events, people, etc. we’d only be providing more value by including references to other material generated by the community.
If we do a post about a particular event, we could include an interview with the organizer on WP Round Table as well as a recap discussion video from WP Water Cooler (which is also worth considering in your list). Similarly with posts about specific topics, issues, teams and people. As long as the content fits within the guidelines we establish, it should be included in blog posts when applicable. And this isn’t to say that the content needs to be uploaded to WPTV. Just that WPTV blog posts should consider content from other sources.
I’d motion for a new page to be added to the handbook which outlines the guidelines for inclusion in a WPTV blog post. It can simply reiterate or reference the same guidelines for WPTV submission or be subtly different. Would be a good topic to discuss next Thursday.
Thanks for your feedback 😉
The idea on some sort of guidelines for the blog is interesting, but I think it’s more important to start and have some sort of consistency with posting, so then we can figure out what works and what not and put those infos in the Handbook. For now, for starting fast, we can refer to our classic rules…
WP Water Cooler is definitely on of those resources to consider for the blog posts from community folks, @emanweb mentioned it below too.
if you have other ideas or link to interesting community guys on YT, please post them in the comments 😉
This channel is pretty cool also: https://www.youtube.com/user/WPwatercooler
Thanks, this one is definitely to consider too!
I think also this two YouTube channels need some sort of attention and we can pick this valuable content on WordPress and repost it on our WPTV blog:
– https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMattreport
– https://www.youtube.com/user/MrChrisLema (Chris Lema is one of my favourite speakers, thanks to Chris for his talks!)
Some other channels are with mixed stuff.
Wow, thanks!
John Parkinson 6:17 pm on July 14, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply
How about: https://wordpress.tv/2016/06/30/andrew-nacin-inheriting-large-and-legacy-projects/