@jeremyruston Any possiblity of restarting the TW hangout videos in the future. Only 2 or 3 videos are there in the youtube since I started using TW in 2020. Rest all videos are old ones. It would be nice to see such videos in the future if its not too much burden on your shoulders.
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Thanks @arunnbabu81 I’m glad the videos are proving useful. I’d be interested in doing more videos. The thing that sapped my enthusiasm last time around was spending hours fixing up Google’s auto generated captions. And yet captions are important for as many people as possible to benefit from the videos.
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When you decide to restart the hangout videos, please try to add a section where you or any of the TW contributors shows us how to use various TW features (different widgets and filter operators etc) with one or two examples.
Topics could be selected according to the level of difficulty or from recent forum discussions. This would greatly empower the non-coding users of TW and inturn increase the TW user base.
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Hi @arunnbabu81 tutorial sections are a good idea, thank you.
I’d also like to revisit how the videos are made. I originally started by using the long defunct Google Hangouts on Air, and then most recently I was using Zoom. I’d prefer to move to something that has better support for chat-only participants, possibly Discord.
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I have seen remnote using discord for such meetings although I haven’t participated in those. When I checked logseq discord today, I found that they were using using YouTube live for their logseq office hours.
https://www.youtube.com/live/8hvhBWx287c?feature=share
You can select which ever platform that’s comfortable for you
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@jeremyruston here is a link of the live event which is going on in the remnote discord server. May be you can take a look at it.
A member in the Chinese QQ group post lots of videos in bilibili , (with only generated caption, but posting video is already nice enough!)
https://search.bilibili.com/all?vt=16617943&keyword=tiddlywiki&order=pubdate
He even record a video introducing my whiteboard plugin, while I’m too busy coding to have time to even record a simple video. Very helpful to have a community member like him.
We haven’t try hangout live, but we might have a try and record something for upload too.
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We Chinese community have started hangout video on bilibili every Saturday night! Encouraged by this post.
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That’s great to hear, thank you @linonetwo. I’d be happy to join one of the sessions to say hello if it was at a practical time for me.
As far as English language hangouts go, it would be really helpful if somebody could volunteer to help – in particular, I found that correcting YouTube’s automatically generated captions was a great deal of work.
I’d also welcome advice from those with experience of running similar sessions to help figure out the best video recording platform to use. (For a long time we used Google Hangouts on Air, which appears to have been discontinued).
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Maybe it’s more efficient, given the learning curve, to have a single person volunteer for all.
However, I’d be happy to step in and fix captions on one or two after the academic semester (once May is done).
I’m a fast touch-typer, and I have access to some good tools, like Descript – which I highly recommend for anyone who wants to edit audio or video. (It allows you to splice and patch the media file by editing the transcript. Obviously that’s less straightforward when there’s visual content in a screencast, but it’s a great bit of leverage to have.)
It isn’t the same, but my dayjob is currently with a team scattered around the world and we use discord for just about all communications, the text and video integration makes it easy for non-video participants to join, but I don’t know if there is a simple method of recording calls.
While I haven’t used it in a context like this, I do like using Jitsi Meet (https://meet.jit.si/) and it has a built-in stream to youtube option. I haven’t used the youtube part, but I have had good experiences with the rest of it. One thing about Jitsi that can be nice depending on the situation is that you don’t need an account to join a call and it can all be in-browser. There is text chat, but I don’t know if it is any better than it was with google hangouts for the non-video participants.
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I’m a retiree with flexible hours, and while my scripting skills have deteriorated, I’d love to help where you just need a user with typing skills and a willingness to help.
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I have a paid Zoom and Microsoft teams . Zoom seems good at recording, chats and whiteboards but I am not sure about captions and transcripts. I would be happy to host and delegate as well.
Thanks! I didn’t attend the forum last month, so I didn’t see this until now.
I found 9:00 PM Saturday in China, is 2:00 PM Saturday in the United Kingdom, maybe we can invite you this Saturday, you can use any video conference you have, we can discuss the detail later.
I usually use GitHub - obsproject/obs-studio: OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording to share my screen, so browser and any video conference tools will get recorded and streamed to the Bilibili.
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When no one ask question in this “office hour”, I will teach something in the tw-cn.netlify.app/ . With those pre-written tutorial, I think viewer won’t need captions, so I’m OK with auto generated caption in Bilibili.
Thank you @linonetwo I won’t be available on Saturday 13th May, but I think I should be around for the following Saturday 20th May if that would work for you?
Best wishes
Jeremy.
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Totally OK, this event is very relaxing, so it all depends on you.
Which tool will you use? We use TencentMeeting, but I don’t know if this works for you.