Showmedo is a peer-produced video-tutorials and screencasts site for free and open-source software - with the exception of some club videos, the large majority are free to watch and download.

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Educating the Open-source Community With Showmedo

Although as important as the software it supports, education and documentation are relatively neglected in the Open-source world. Coders love to code, and explaining how best to use or improve the software tends to be deferred or even sidelined.

At Showmedo we believe the community can play a vital role here and also say thanks for the tools and software that make our lives easier. If you have a piece of software you love or a programming langugage you are enthusiastic about, why not make a screencast showing others how to use it? All the stuff you wish you'd been told, the tips, tricks, insights that would have saved you time and frustration.

Screencasting is easier than you think, and we're happy to help you. You can email us for advice or just use some of the how-to screencasts on the site. This screencasting learning-path is a good place to start.

Hardware Videos, Tutorials and Screencasts

We have 4 series for learning Hardware.

[285] Hardware list, vmware host. (2 videos)

a series of video-tutorials by Jaqui

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[236] Getting started with DosBox, the basics

video tutorial by Peter

This screencast shows you how to setup DosBox and use it to run an old game. It shows you the basic [...]

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[194] Arduino Hardware Hackery (USB + XP) (2 videos)

a series of video-tutorials by Ian Ozsvald

These short demos show the low-cost Arduino hardware experimentation board in action on Windows XP [...]

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[138] C programming tutorial. (8 videos)

a series of video-tutorials by gasto

This series of videos will guide you through a painless tutorial on the C programming language. I c [...]

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CLUB SHOWMEDO

Are you learning Python? To keep the site running clean and ad-free we've started Club ShowMeDo. The club will allow you access to some special videos we're making to pass on programming skills we consider important to the development and enjoyment of Free Open Source Software (FOSS).

The focus at the moment is on developing with the Python programming language, one of the backbones of the FOSS movement with a huge number of included and third-party libraries.

CONTACT

We welcome feedback and we want to hear your ideas.

The best way to discuss new ideas is in our Google Group.

To reach either of us (Ian, Kyran) you will find our email addresses on the About page.

THANKS

Check out our thanks-page for a roll call of the great software that enables Showmedo to function.

Educating the Open-source Community With Showmedo

Hardware Videos, Tutorials and Screencasts

a series of video-tutorials by Jaqui

video tutorial by Peter

a series of video-tutorials by Ian Ozsvald

a series of video-tutorials by gasto

CLUB SHOWMEDO

CONTACT

THANKS