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We approve and publish all videos on WordPress.tv as well as help WordCamps with video post-production and captioning and subtitling of published videos.

We use this P2 to post our progress, status reports, and occasional geeky video debates. Use the “Subscribe to Blog via Email” widget to follow along!

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Video Editing — You can see what videos we have that need editing in this spreadsheet. No special credentials are needed, just download the raw video file, and use your favorite app to edit.

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Subtitles/captions — You can help us extend the reach of of WordPress.tv by adding captions or subtitles to any published video. Just find your favorite video, and follow the steps here to create a caption/translation file and submit for review.

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We use Slack for real-time communication. As contributors live all over the world, there are discussions happening at all hours of the day.

We have weekly team meetings every Thursday, and they are open to the public! Our next meeting is Thursday at 17:00 UTC in the #wptv channel on Slack. (Find out more about Slack.)

You’re welcome to listen in, or say “hi” and introduce yourself if you’d like to help.

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  • Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic) 6:00 pm on October 13, 2016 Permalink |  

    Tags on Youtube 

    Now that we are starting to move videos onto our official WordPress YouTube channel, how should we handle tags? Tags in YT have much more use as navigation that you see in a WordPress site typically, like WPTV.

    Edit: Tags may have more use in YT than on WP

    To keep this manageable for mods it would need to be a short list, but we do have a few “big buckets” that our videos fall into, such as:

    • Videos targeted at users
    • Vides targeted at core developers
    • Plugin development
    • Theme development
    • Content Marketing/SEO
    • Website Design

    Those are a few off of the top of my head. What say you, if you could set a list of tags for this channel, how would you go about it? What kind of naming conventions would you use for consistency. I have no firm ideas here, so I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas in the comments. And to keep the list reasonable, try to limit yourself to 10 or less “big tags” we can use on YouTube.

     

    • Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic) 6:02 pm on October 13, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Wanted to add, these are not the ONLY tags I see us adding. As a mod uploads videos to YouTube, I envision a few major tags we would add (based on the discussion here) but also I think it is fine if a mod ads any other tags they feel is relevant.

    • emanweb 6:08 pm on October 13, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Here’s my list of tag suggestion translation for WPTV Tag | YT Tag:

      Development | WordPress Development
      Plugins | WordPress Plugins
      Begginer | WordPress Begginer
      Themes | WordPres Themes

      So, I guess majority of the tags we will need to add WordPress on Youtube.

    • Ben Hansen (ubernaut) 6:15 pm on October 13, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      wordpress should probably be a universal tag added to everything maybe wordcamp also (but probably better to tag the specific word camp) youtube mostly uses tags as hints i believe they don’t seem to do too much (which stands to reason seeing as tag stuffing a well known thing, tags used to be visible but they started hiding them a few years ago). Aside form that i think the tags we use now are probably good ones. Names work well for tags as do specific technical terms.

      • Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic) 4:29 pm on October 14, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Interesting. I did a bit of digging, and I do see that Google has hidden video tags. They are used (from what I’ve read) to help rank your video in search results, but are not exposed to end users as a navigational element.

        With that in mind, we may not need to worry so much about these tags (in a navigational sense) and just let the mod add the tags they feel are appropriate? I wonder do we also want to add “WordPress” and “WordCamp” as tags, to all our videos?

        • Michael 4:34 pm on October 14, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          WordPress and WordCamp should be added to the tags, as well as, WordPressTV and WordCampTV.
          If you search YT for WordPress none of the WordPress sites show in the results.

          • Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic) 5:02 pm on October 21, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply

            I can see WordPress and WordCamp, as those might be terms that people would search for in Google/YouTube.

            But I am not sure anyone thinks to search for WordPressTV and WordCampTV. You see a benefit in adding these?

      • Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic) 5:05 pm on October 21, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Interesting, I do see that there might be some benefit in tagging the video with the WordCamp name, but then again, we will also have camps organized into playlists so I wonder if that is enough for YT to index the videos in search?

        I’m sure that they are looking at all the meta (tags, title name, words in description, etc) to index content. I’d think that they would also recognize the playlist (since you see playlists in YT search results) in which case is a tag like this strictly necessary?

    • Pascal Casier 1:24 pm on October 17, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Should we not have at least the 14 here: https://make.wordpress.org/ ? It’s how we can contribute and I think most of the videos would fit into one (or more), no ?
      Then the ‘Beginner/Advanced’ is nice, but not sure it’s easy to judge.

      Still wondering about the difference between ‘WordCamp’ and ‘WordCampTV’…

      • Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic) 4:56 pm on October 21, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        I think that if tags are mostly meant for YT to index videos in search (and not something users see) then the names of various teams in the community is not something that is widely searched within YT… if this was a tag visitors could click it would make sense, but in this case I think we skip these

    • Pascal Casier 1:32 pm on October 17, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      How about:

      • ‘MultiSite’ compared to Single site?
      • Multilingual

      • Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic) 4:58 pm on October 21, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        I think (i hope) if the WordCamp talk is about multisite, the mod will think to add that tag naturally, but I don’t think we need it on the master list of tags we want to add

    • Pascal Casier 11:08 am on October 18, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      See also https://2016.europe.wordcamp.org/schedule/ there are some nice ones there too (Community, Development, Development for beginners, Business, Design, …)

      • Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic) 5:00 pm on October 21, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        We’ve had a few conversations about tabbing by skill level (as it relates to WPTV) but could never agree on a system. I think the problem is that some peoples notion of “beginner” is different than others.

        I do think it’s useful to categorize our content, so maybe a playlist would work instead of tagging? As with my earlier comments, I think the fact that YT does not show these tags on the frontend (where viewers can see them) really limits their usefulness for organizing content for visitors to our channel 🙁

  • Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic) 4:37 pm on July 14, 2016 Permalink |  

    WPTV blog: Video highlights for devs from WCEU 

    For this week (Friday July 15th) our video wrap up post will be focused on recent videos that are of interest to new WordPress users.

    As with last week, given that WCEU happened recently and is fresh in everyone’s mind, let’s focus on videos from that camp. There are plenty of sessions to choose from and all are great quality, so what is your favorite WCEU session targeted at developers? Let’s feature it on our blog!

     

  • Michael 2:55 pm on July 13, 2016 Permalink |
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    WPTV Camera Kit Layout 

    Just so we are all up-to-date on the camera equipment. This is the current layout for the cases.

    We have some kits that have cameras and equipment for two setups.

    These cases look like this:

    IMG_8347

    These cases have two containers (one with camera equipment and one with audio equipment), two tripods, gaffers tape and a misc equipment bag (red)

    We also have single camera cases.

    singelcase

    In each case are containers with pictures and names of the equipment inside.

    camera

    This container has all the camera equipment.

    audio

    and another container has all the audio equipment with names and pictures of the equipment.

    insidecase

    And inside each case is a list with pictures and names of the misc equipment not listed in the other containers.

    Each case has each piece of equipment, in that case, colored coded to make it easier to get the correct equipment back in the correct case.

    colorcoding

    Examples of color coded equipment.

    We also have QR codes on the tripods, the handle mounts and the audio transmitter and receivers.

    Scanning the QR code will show a short video for setting up and using each piece of equipment.
    (Scan one and give it a try).

    88wmics

    88W Wireless Mics

    sunpacktripod

    Sunpack Tripods

    mountbracket

    Mount Brackets

    traveltripod

    Travel Tripod

    And we have instruction sheets for each of the cameras (with a link to the mfg manual at the bottom of each sheet).

    Canon Vixia HF R600 Camera

    Canon Vixia HF M400 Camera

    Canon Vixia HF M300 Camera

    We also have Livestream camera equipment but that’s for another post.

     

     

  • Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic) 4:13 pm on July 8, 2016 Permalink |
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    WPTV Team Chat Notes 7/7/2016 

    We met in Community Slack last week to discuss how things are going on WordPress.tv and here is what we discussed:

    • Incoming WordCamp videos – Working on WC Asheville which will be ready for post production soon. None in the Pending Review
    • Post Production/Publishing – Videos from WC Antwerp are available for editing (claim one here) and WordCamp Asheville will be uploaded soon 30-40 raw video files that will need full editing
    • Outreach – All camps for July have been contacted
    • WPTV Blog – @jwparky and @jerrysarcastic have switched publishing days. John’s second video interview post was published last Friday but he will be switching to every other Tuesday. Also noted that we get a lot of traffic to the blog from the posts that appear in the WordPress Dashboard (Planet WordPress Feed)
    • Captions/Subtitles – New captions submitted by @rianrietveld and @jessicaestes, and it was pointed out we could use a style guide for captions. @jerrysarscastic will add a page for that to the WPTV Moderator Handbook.

    —

    Full transcript of the meeting here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/wptv/p1467910896001304

    Want to join our meeting next week? See the blue box at the top of the page to see when our next meeting is!

     

  • Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic) 4:46 am on July 6, 2016 Permalink |  

    WPTV Blog – Wrap up post suggestions (and a slight schedule change) 

    After talking with @jwparky, we decided to swap the days we post on, and the weekly video roundup post will be going out on Fridays now, and the John’s interview posts will be going out on Tuesdays (we’re switching) as this fits both our schedules better.

    For this week (Friday July 8th) our video wrap up post will be focused on Recent videos that are of interest to new WordPress users.

    Given that WCEU happened recently and is fresh in everyone’s mind, I thought it’d be cool to focus on new user WordCamp sessions from that camp, so with that in mind, what is your favorite WCEU session targeted at new users? Let’s feature it on our blog for everyone to see!

     

  • Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic) 4:37 am on July 6, 2016 Permalink |
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    WPTV Team Chat Notes: 6/30/2016 

    We met last Thursday to discuss the state of WPTV for another week. Here is what we talked about:

    Incoming WordCamp videos – What is our current status, what are we expecting soon

    WCEU and WC Antwerp are uploading to AWS.

    Post Production/Publishing – What videos do we have that need post production work. Are there pending videos in WPTV that need out help in publishing? How can the team help?

    Will have WC Asheville for post soon. WC Antwerp is trimmed but does not have intro/outro

    Outreach – Camps we’ve heard from, camps we may want to reach out to

    Camps for the month of July have been contacted

    WPTV Blog – What have we posted recently, what are we planning to post*

    @johnparkinson in publishing another interview post on Friday continuing a twice-monthly schedule

    Subtitling/captioning – do we have new captions to approve this week? New videos that can be captioned?

    This is a new weekly agenda item. Lots of interest post WCEU, which is great to see. @casiepa mentioned he is willing to work on a script to convert Youtube caption formats to work with WordPress.tv, and also @extraboy brought it up with the community team while at WCEU.

    Starting out, we will ask captioners (captioneers?) to try and complete captions/subs for two videos this week, and report back about how that went, working toward making this a weekly update on the things we are adding captions to. If you only have time to work on captioning one video a week, even a short one, is fine too. Any help would be great!

    —

    Full transcript of the meeting here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/wptv/p1467306089000639

    Want to join our meeting next week? See the blue box at the top of the page to see when our next meeting is!

     

  • Olegs Belousovs 7:39 pm on June 29, 2016 Permalink |
    Tags: Contributor Day, WCEU, , WordCamp Europe   

    Contributor Day at WCEU 2016 – WordPress TV Team Recap 

    I was asked by Rocío Valdivia (@_dorsvenabili) to lead WordPress.tv team in the Contributor Day at WCEU this year. How could I say no? I contribute actively to WordPress.tv for exactly one year (since I visited WCEU 2015) and it was a nice occasion for celebrate 🎉

    Below are some notes and stories that I collected with the help of various participants during the WCEU 2016 and the Contributor Day. Thank you all!

    • There were 14 people attending, from 19 signed up to the WPTV team through Contributor Day form.
    • I presented my slides, introducing our WPTV team and explained the workflow of producing and publishing videos for WordPress.tv to all the participants in the room.
    Olegs Belousovs presenting the WordPress TV team at WordCamp Europe 2016 Contributor Day

    Olegs Belousovs presenting the WordPress TV team at WordCamp Europe 2016 Contributor Day

    • We discussed the WordPress video hardware and how to be better on setting it up for WordCamp or WordPress Meetup sessions registration.
    • We discussed the complicated uploading process and it turned out that it discourages people to participate with contributions. I also discussed on this point with Andrew Ozz (@azaozz) during the second day of WordCamp Europe 2016, where I had pleasure to met him thanks to the introduction from Konstantin Kovshenin (@kovshenin). I discovered that Andrew was the developer of uploading functionality on “Submit a video” page some years ago, but actually he is not on this project anymore. He was really nice and available and said that if we need some sort of help on improvements we can ping him. Should we create some ticket maybe? 😛

    WordPress TV team at WordCamp Europe 2016 Contributor Day

    • We discussed the responsive design of WordPress.tv, because questions from the people were raised (I know that we are a content management and editing team, but we need a better tools and people who want to visit WPTV form mobile should have a good user experience too!). The state of work and recent posts on this topic are here https://make.wordpress.org/tv/?s=redesign
    • I replied to some questions from Kyung Munneke on WordCamp video/audio management and on where to recruit people for this role. I said to ask for help in the local WordPress Community or local photo/video school and leave the hiring of a video firm as a last resort (this suggestion is also written in the WordCamp Planning Handbook).
    • Leo Tulipan asked questions about the audio equipment to use at Meetups and WordCamps and he and Florian Gottschall were also made some recommendations on an external microphone to attach to your mobile device like this RØDE smartLav+ lavalier microphone. My suggestion for a quality audio registration was to use an external recorder like the Zoom H4n or to attach your laptop directly to a mixer and recording inside Audacity open source software.

    WordPress TV team at WordCamp Europe 2016 Contributor Day

    • Florian Gottschall (@floriang) illustrated his video editing plugin (wp-video-editor.com), but we can’t use it on WordPress.tv due the WP.com platform limitations on installing plugins. If you want to help our team with the video post-production and don’t have the right software, you could easily use this plugin for post-production of videos from WordCamps directly in your browser. You can upload a logo, add Intro/Outro and the Audio Mastering is done automatically. Afterwards you receive a ready branded video which you can upload to WordPress TV.
    • Some good guys from Germany (Sven Wagener, Sören Wrede and Florian Gottschall) shared their WordCamp setup experience, gently offered by German Joomla! association. In this blog post you can find all the setup details. I really enjoyed this story and was impressed on the quality and a speed of the WordCamp Nuremberg 2016 videos appeared on WordPress.tv in one week after the event (definitely at the level of a WCEU or WCUS). Really loved this type of collaboration between tech communities!

    WordPress TV team at WordCamp Europe 2016 Contributor Day

    • Morten Rand-Hendriksen (@mor10) pointed out that the actual WordPress.tv structure is limiting the contributions to grow and maybe WPTV should be completely a community project? … and I agree! WordPress.tv is hosted on WordPress.com and using the VideoPress service for all the videos and it’s still an Automattic project. WordPress.tv theme was open sourced in meta-environment 9 months ago but still no changes were made. Morten will provide more info when he comes back from vacation and will join one of our meetings.
    • Some questions were made about why just not using only YouTube and embed videos directly in the content. This makes a lot of sense because now we are making a double work of cross-posting the same videos. Michael (@roseapplemedia) wrote something about this idea here but not exactly the same.
    • Lesley Molecke (@eckandgrumble) was interested in subtitling videos after seen the Rian Rietveld (@rianrietveld) talk on WordPress Accessibility team and this Tweet by @mor10 that made her show up to Contributor Day.
    The state of subtitles on http://WordPress.tv could use some improvement.

    The state of subtitles on http://WordPress.tv could use some improvement.

    Source: Morten the Northman (@mor10) June 25, 2016

    • Annette Voelckner (@onthisearth) and another person asked about what types of post-production we happen to do and I explained that mainly are the simplest intro & outro placements and the second ones (more difficult) are with slides to cut-in.
    • Before the Contributor Day I had a discussion with @kovshenin on subtitles file formats and if we can use the YouTube formats (.sbv, .srt & .vtt) directly on WordPress.tv, without converting them to a .ttml through the actual complicated process involving Amara web service. At this point, we are also discouraging people to help due to the complicated workflow and for the lack of updated tools at our disposal. The solution? YouTube subtitling system of course!
    • I left the team before lunch, because I had to return to Torino by car… and the team continued to work on the project and created their versions of a mockups and also made some wireframes for WordPress.tv website redesign, which is not responsive yet. This will be a proposal for the WordPress.tv redesign. We had a lot off discussions on this topic in the past months in Slack and here on P2 and some work was already done. Actually, all the discussions are in freeze mode… some posts on this topic are here https://make.wordpress.org/tv/?s=redesign
    A mockup proposal for WordPress.tv website created by the WPTV team at the WordCamp Europe 2016 Contributor Day

    A mockup proposal for WordPress.tv website created by the WPTV team at the WordCamp Europe 2016 Contributor Day

    Picture by Sven Wagener (@mahype)

    • Some general questions on Slack setup and w.org accounts where made and I pointed people to the right direction.

    We have still some unresolved tickets for WordPress.tv project: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&status=reviewing&component=WordPress.tv&col=id&col=summary&col=component&col=status&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=keywords&order=priority

    Most of the pictures was taken from the video shooted by Florian Gottschall (@floriang) and his team during WCEU 2016.

    I would like to say THANK YOU to the WordCamp Europe 2016 organizers, volunteers, sponsors, attendees and to all the people who showed up on Sunday at the WPTV room 😉
    Thanks a lot to Rocío Valdivia (@_dorsvenabili) for pinged me and asked to lead the WordPress TV team at this Contributor Day and to Alex Kirk (@akirk) for tech support during the day.

    I was sad that my team members could not come to this WCEU, 🙁 but I’ll try to be at WCUS 2016. 😉

    Please, share your thoughts in the comments below and if something is missing from these notes or if I forgot to mention someone please write it.

     

  • Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic) 6:01 pm on June 16, 2016 Permalink |
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    WPTV Team Chat Notes: 6/16/2016 

    We met today to discuss the state of WPTV for another week. Here is what we talked about:

    • 1. Incoming WordCamp videos – WordCamp Hamilton had some uploader issues but is sorted out. Videos starting to trickle into our AWS account. Waiting on several recent camps to submit as well
    • 2. Post Production/Publishing – We are also all caught up on videos pending publication.
    • 3. Outreach – @roseapplemedia has been trying this, but there has not been a ton of response so far. We discussed the difficulty in finding out who the AV coordinator is, and how we can easily find out that contact so we can ping them
    • 4. WPTV Blog – second “featured on wptv” post is live, and traffic to the WPTV blog is much improved. We also took a look at @jwparky‘s recent interviews with community members, and looks like we are a go to start publishing those bi-monthly

    We also took a bit of time to discuss @oleg‘s proposal to bring more vodcast and interview content onto our site, from existing YT channels. Full post is here if you’d like to comment.

    Full transcript of the meeting here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/wptv/p1466096511000123

    Want to join our meeting next week? See the blue box at the top of the page to see when our next meeting is!

     

  • John Parkinson 3:13 pm on June 16, 2016 Permalink |  

    WPTV Video Interviews 

    Here are 4 videos I was able to do over the past few days. Please take a look and make comments and suggestions!

    Michael Wiginton – via Skype

    Chris Lema – in person

    Shelby Elliott – in person

    Adam Warner – in person

     

  • Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic) 4:42 pm on June 15, 2016 Permalink |  

    WPTV Blog video suggestions: Featured WordCamp 

    For next week (Tuesday June 21th) we are going to publish our next “Featured on WPTV” post on blog.wordpress.tv. and our theme for this post is Featured WordCamp – videos selected from a recent WordCamp (last 30 days) with user and/or dev focused videos.

    Have you noticed any recent videos that show off a great recent WordCamp and has both good audio quality, and slides are clearly visible or edited in? Please post here in the comments, thanks! 🙂

     

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