<div dir="ltr">The videos came out really well, Rogan! Your time and effort really show!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Rogan Hamby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rogan.hamby@gmail.com" target="_blank">rogan.hamby@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Partially for documentation purposes and partially for discussion I thought I'd start a thread discussing how the Road to 3.0 Video Series went. I'm going on memory so Kathy may correct me.<div><br></div><div>As we discussed promotion efforts for 3.0 one thing we wanted to try was short videos that could easily be shared on social media. Several people had similar ideas for this independently and we discussed it as a group. Kathy and I have both done some video work in the past so we felt capable (note I say capable, not expert) in accomplishing some for this purpose. She and I brainstormed some ideas and hammered out a schedule via a Google spreadsheet. </div><div><br></div><div>Kathy created the first one and although we were using different tools we collected some common elements in a Google Drive to give them a similar format and appearance. To host these we had access to some other Youtube channels community members had created but we wanted something branded as Evergreen so Dan Scott helped out since he created the Evergreen community G+ account and added a Youtube channel with Kathy and I as admins. </div><div><br></div><div>In the end she and I created a total of four videos (two each). The Youtube channel got 130+ subscribers so we were able to do some Evergreen specific branding on it (yay!) and the videos got 1,986 views as of this morning. The promotion also got some exposure on the Facebook and Twitter feeds. The feedback was universally positive and for an experiment I think it went very, very well.</div><div><br></div><div>That wasn't without spending resources. You can think "I'm going to do this quick and dirty" but once you start you want a certain degree of polish and by the time all is said and done it's a bigger commitment than you'd planned on. Takeaway - these aren't tiny projects to do. A five minute video can take substantially longer between setup, video work, etc...<br></div><div><br></div><div>All in all I think they are worth doing in the future but we will probably adjust what we do. Specifically, doing features still in development is great but problematic so we need to have reasonable expectations about doing those. I think Kathy and I did well at managing that but if we bring in others to help who don't follow the development closely it could cause confusion. We had more than one private IRC exchange of "Is your VM doing that? No, maybe I need to update. No, maybe an update broke this. No, I do need to update. I'm missing patch X." So, we need to consider this in terms of who does what videos, how stable the development is and what we publicize in terms of ongoing efforts.</div><div><br></div><div>Final thought - I think there is value in continuing to do these about a variety of these and not necessarily tied to releases though release based ones are good as well.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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