[advocacy-discuss] Training videos on OpenSolaris.ORG or other training material

[Michelle Olson]

Ben Rockwood wrote:
> Clay Baenziger wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>     For FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris Users' Group), I've been
>> trying to find a way to produce more accessible training material. We
>> have tried auto and now audio and video from our meetings. First we
>> tried an MP3 recorded conference call[1] and now we do UStream.TV
>> material[2].
>>     However, I find that it's difficult to break-up the meeting to
>> have more targeted videos and even having a videographer, he's hard
>> presed to pull the users' group meeting into ready made material to
>> use on a stand-alone basis.
>>     Have any OSUGs found a good way to produce live training videos to
>> go with our otherwise rather text-only slide decks? Or has anyone
>> found another way to do training material which really seems to get
>> messages across well?
>>     
>
>
>
> Screencasts work very well.... the problem is doing them live.  Reading
> terminal output on a projector is difficult unless you blow it up so
> large that you can't put much on the screen.  Conversely, just talking
> with a slide deck makes for a boring screencast but works well live.
>
> The focus, pace, and audience differ greatly between the two mediums and
> thus I consider them complementary but unique.
>   

Hi,

I'm not sure if this helps, but there is an OpenSolaris 2008.11 Cloud 
service available now. It seems like we could develop some training 
modules for our cloud that are at least better than the 3 things we 
currently suggest folks play with (GNOME, Tracker, and Gobby). Also 
could very well be a dead end...
https://learning.sun.com/solc/course/sandbox-1

So, another option other projects use with success is Webex. You can try 
it free for 14 days to see how it goes. I'd love to see a line up of 
Webex events for upcoming OpenSolaris topics, would be great filler 
between in-person events and a way for me to 'attend' FROSUG from CA. 
You can talk to slides, share your desktop, or share the desktop of 
anyone in the meeting:

http://www.webex.com/

I suspect you could morph meeting content into training modules and 
other cool stuff, but I didn't look around very long. If nothing else, 
Webex supports S10, so we should get OpenSolaris on their radar as 
supported alongside Ubuntu, SUSE, etc. I just joined the demo meeting 
and it looks great on b106. Basic subscription is $59 per month with 
meetings limited to 25 attendees. So, if all the UGs could use one 
subscription it could be very cool.

Thanks for thinking about this,
Michelle



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