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Repo to brainstorm ideas (unconference style) for the rOpenSci hackathon.
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Make a few video tutorials #9

Open karthik opened 10 years ago

karthik commented 10 years ago

We've discussed this before. It would be great to make 3-5 minute video demos for some of our packages. People can quickly get a sense of what's possible before investing time in learning how to use it.

The thought came to mind after watching Roger Peng'sThere's a package for that video posted today.

Looks like we can just speed up the parts where code is being typed.
Maybe of interest to @Dtrap?

dtrapezoid commented 10 years ago

Yeah, this is totally doable. It would be great if I still had access to the eecs film room but my contact ended there.

A wacom would make this type of video super easy and it would be cool to have a second cam so we could pan from package presenter to screen. This helps thr viewer digest and humanizes the process. I think we will have to reach out to some of our lovely folks who would have equipment in this milieu.

I am pumped to take on a project of this nature once we get the equipment ducks in a row. On Feb 20, 2014 3:53 PM, "Karthik Ram" notifications@github.com wrote:

We've discussed this before. It would be great to make 3-5 minute video demos for some of our packages. People can quickly get a sense of what's possible before investing time in learning how to use it.

The thought came to mind after watching Roger Peng'sThere's a package for that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhTerzNFLbo video posted today.

Looks like we can just speed up the parts where code is being typed.

Maybe of interest to @Dtrap https://github.com/Dtrap?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/ropensci/hackathon/issues/9 .

sckott commented 10 years ago

I made a draft video tutorial for taxize here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ilOsKCnjc&list=UUNMdInHHYBtxKpsSivYNTGw - needs more work to actually be good