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.

[097] Casting Your Knowledge, With Style (2 videos)

a series of video-tutorials by Jeff Rush

This series aims to get you into producing your own screencasts. I explain the types of casts, why you might want to make them and how to set up your virtual recording studio. I then move into the high-level planning of the capture process, offer tips about presentation tools, starting and ending your talk, a little about postprocessing and then cover where and how to distribute your talk to others.

In the series I strive to be operating system neutral, except for those talks clearly labeled to cover capture tools for Linux, which I use exclusively.

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[295] Preparing for Screencasting

Advice on how to get started giving screencasts, why you might want to do it and how to establish your recording studio. Then we move into planning the capture of your screencast and a few tips on using some presentation tools.

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[296] Giving Your Screencast

Now that you have a studio and a plan, we cover how to begin and conclude your cast and a bit about postprocessing. Then we cover your behavior during your talk and how to get your screencast distributed to others.

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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.

Educating the Open-source Community With Showmedo

[097] Casting Your Knowledge, With Style (2 videos)

a series of video-tutorials by Jeff Rush

Video Tutorials

[295] Preparing for Screencasting

[296] Giving Your Screencast

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