[ubuntu-in] Rejuvenating the LoCo team

[Soumyadip Modak]

On 5/6/07, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/6/07, Aanjhan R <aanjhan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Soumyadip,
> >
> > Nice to see this mail of yours. Thanks for kicking once again.
> >
> > On 5/6/07, Soumyadip Modak <soumyadip.modak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > One aspect I'd like to see addressed at the website is that there are
> > > hardly any screencasts. I remember that people on the IRC channel were
> > > discussing about Istanbul sometime ago. What has been the progress ?
> > > Who can make a screencast on how to install and use Istanbul to make a
> > > screencast. :) Another one on getting 3D desktops, the Ubuntu way ?
> >
> > Yes. How-to get Beryl Installed with screencasts will be fun :-)
>
> Screencasts will be good and istanbul is the best tool for it. I would
> suggest Theora/Ogg format using strictly (istanbul uses same). Topics
> can be decided on wiki and anyone interested can take the
> responsibility. But the main question is 'where to upload?'
>

How big are the files actually ? I'm assuming you record at 256x192
resolution at maybe 1 frame per second (fast enough IMHO). I don't
think they'll be too big to be hosted on the website itself.
http://www.ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Special:Upload let's you upload files
easily enough :)

I'd recommend the Fedora Screencasting Howto for guidance.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ScreenCasting

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