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[Karsten Wade]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 08:22 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> In any case, I've worked on these training videos before at my job, and
> they are higher in complexity by *several* orders of magnitude over
> what's required for written documentation.  Script-writing, lighting,
> directing, camera work, sound recording, editing, mixing, scoring...
> this is why media houses exist!  :-)

I agree about not getting sidetracked, but I want to recognize the
growing value in what are being called 'screencasts.'  These are short,
usually Flash movies that show someone using a piece of software to
accomplish tasks.  It can include a narration.  Something like this can
be produced using basic desktop tools.  However, I doubt there is a
fully free toolchain, and if there is, the output format isn't an open
one.  Still, something to keep our eye on.  

If making useful screencasts was someone's entire preference and they
wouldn't participate otherwise, I'd say we should embrace them and see
what can be done.  We can still have open source documentation that
compiles into a non-free format and possibly still be within the spirit
of the project

- Karsten
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