History: Video Clips

Synopsis

This information video project is about the Tiki community. The audience learns about the Wiki Way (i.e., its model) to make software. Three to five video clips are produced, each of which lasts approximately 3-4 minutes. These info-video-clips are interviews of those who are involved in the Tiki community. Broadcast is taking place on the Internet. Then, the clips will be embedded in as many free video distribution platforms as possible.

Audience

The target audience is threefold:

1. Developers (guerrilla programmers and trained programmers) and technology decision makers.
2. Companies like ISPs and SMBs who advise and help clients in the use of web applications solutions.
3. Organizations who serve Fortune 500 companies.

Questions being asked during the interviews?

The idea is that each person being interviewed prepares his/her own set of questions. Here are some

• Is Tiki a long-term project?
• Some say that Tiki is not a Content Management System but a Community Management System. Can we agree that it is becoming an Ecosystem?
• Where are the plug-ins?
• What does this mean: "The WIKI way to build software"?
• Your plan is to release early and often. How often?
• Every community within Tiki is interdependent. If a group builds/integrates a functionality, up to a significant quality, it can then be integrated into the core and released with the Tiki package. Is this why Tiki is different?
• Developers need to be ready so that their contribution becomes available to all. Isn't that frustrating and "anti-competitive"?
• Will Tiki be around in the long term?
• What are the strengths of Tiki: For example, the use and integration of jQuery, Zend, Smarty, etc. Does that count for someone shopping for a framework?
• What do you mean by "Everyone is Co-Captain"?
• How can Tiki be good at everything?
• Can a Tiki web site look like anything I want it to?
• What do the 3 simple rules mean (Respect the Environment; Commit early, Commit often; and Make it Optional)?
• In Tiki, pretty much all the functionality is offered in the "core". Why are some developers concerned about Tiki's perceived lack of modularity. Is this a concern?
• Let's say I have a BBS that is profitable. I wish to migrate, to expand and plan for the Long Term. Can Tiki help me?

Schedule

None scheduled at the moment

Who participated so far

So far, here are the people that participated in the interviews:

• Gary Cunningham-Lee

Gary has approved the release in January 2011.
It is now up to Daniel to re-do the said clip or to post the source code on the tv.tiki.org side.
See do and cross-out item number 3 about this clip

• Marc Laporte
• Philippe (Chealer)
• Martin Latulipe
• Pascal St-Jean
• Régis Barondeau
• Rodrigo Primo
• Louis-Philippe Huberdeau (at the BBB TikiFest)
• Etienne Lachance (at the BBB TikiFest) <http://evo.cat.io/fr/a-propos/notre-equipe>
• Fred Dixon (at the BBB TikiFest) <ffdixon@blindsidenetworks.com>
• Nelson Ko (at the BBB TikiFest) <nelson@citadelrock.com>

How is one interview taking place?

Those who accept to be interviewed should be fairly prepared and pick two or three questions written down.

The video-clips will be timeless and “spaceless”, meaning that once being broadcasted over the Internet, viewers should not read, hear or see any reference to the date or place interviews are being filmed. Participants being interviewed are wearing neutral clothings (no logo shirts that would refer to a brand, location, etc.)

The core of the interview is a discussion between the videographer and the person being interviewed.

Here are some videos captured at the TikiFest.

- Presentation of the Video project including a round table of those present (Daniel, Patricia, Marc, Philippe(Chealer) and Gary)

- Pre-production discussion: Gary's presentation, than brainstorming: What should.... (Trial run. Than, the discussion starts.)

- Then, the brainstorm transforms into a discussion and ideas start to emerge. Here are some which describes the USP (Unique Selling Proposition):

• Same like the others and that makes it different
• The Wiki approach to build software
• Super users answering questions
• Tiki has the most built in features
• Tiki has No plug-ins, how can that be? The model used.
• Tiki is structured differently: Micro community
• In theory, 100% of the developers have access to 100% of the code. In reality, there are hierarchies, yet they are more like concentric circles. There is a fluidity within the community. Everyone is allowed to edit every page (in principle).

Conclusion: This portion is named: How can it possibly be true? Or, it looks too good to be true.

Props

A picture is worth a thousand words. The ideal situation would be to have charts ready. Drawings that explain some complex concepts make it easier for the audience to understand. These charts will be used during the editing phase to intercut and avoid just having some heads talking.

The first interview being captured

Here are the questions asked during the interviews

Take one: Marc Laporte is the first one to be interviewed. Intro about Tiki. Remember this is "real life", meaning that you see the video capture of the video production taking place. Even cats have their say 😉

Take two. (Marc Laporte). Continuation of talks about the TikiW Ecosystem. Few points to remember: We should make the interviews "really" into clips. Meaning that we should consider to cut the filming after an answer has been given so that we can verify the result is satisfactory.

Day two. Interviews conducted:

Day two of the project did not go as expected. Yet, progress did occur. The manner in which the interviews are conducted is quite efficient now. A question, one question is asked and the answer is complete and deep. No reply, no counter questions, no interruptions, just the short question and the complete answer. Gary and Philippe did well. Gary did talk about "Themes" (no broacast of this, the uStream.tv site did not capture Gary's interviews. Then, Philippe talks about how can someone make a living with Tiki and what improvements does he see has needed. Shawn, Patricia and Pascal did not come. See this uStream capture (in French) and this one too (in English).
The "virtual" interview concept was not tested, though it was discussed.

Day three. Interviews at CGCOM (5 to 7pm)

Interviews with: Pascal St-jean and Martin Latulipe.
We shot 5 clips with Pascal. Pascal talked how do the economic value and the business aspect relate to each other. Really inspiring. Martin talked about Trackers.

Day four. So far, it looks like it is canceled. Shooting was supposed to take place at ConFoo. So far, it seems that it will not take place. The ConFoo organizers did not accept that we enter.

How does or did it go?

Things are expanding.

• Shooting was continuous till march 2011. As of now, no more shooting is taking place.
• Over one hour of video material is available for editing.
• The interview with Marc Laporte talking about Modularity is to be edited next. There are two interviews of Marc talking about modularity. The one in filmed at the Ottawa ((BBB) Tiki fest is being used.

Broadcasting

Once approved (the final product, that is) by those being interviewed, the clips are disseminated over as many video web sites and distribution hosts as possible.

Here is the list:

• YouTube
• Ustream.tv
• Vimeo
• Viddler.com
• Blip.TV
• 5min.com
• HowCast
• Seesmic (closed)
• Daily Motion
• Qik Unavailable at the present time (dec 12 2010).
• Veoh
• Others are

To do

The wish is that the source of the clips reside on Tiki's integration page at Kaltura.org so that open source tools and services can be used by the Tiki community in conjunction with Kaltura's community

In the meantime

The output, meaning the final video clips (namely, the source), will reside on the tv.tiki.org side.

Question about this icon

Should this icon be re-done taking into consideration the new branding? If yes, how do we go about it?

Help and more questions

Help is being asked to the group who participated at the Marketing brainstorming exercisethe communication team and also the Branding Group so that the overall look and feel fits with the rest.

For the list of those who have been personally invited to participate, see bellow at: Who

This project is now into phase two and three mode

As we all know, video production over the internet is increasingly popular. This project is branching in different fields of expertise. Here are some:

1. See the author's Phase Two and Three page as he understands it
2. Development of a video broadcast model for all Tiki project being disseminated (a.k.a Model of a typical video clip)
3. Kaltura Video integration integration
   1. Kaltura
4. Transcoding
   1. Techniques
   2. Best of
   3. The various h.264 projects available on the web
5. Media player's
   1. Which one to choose for broadcasting over the internet, specifically for Tiki

Questions?

Daniel

Pages related to this one

5 pages link to Video Clips

• Branding Team
• Video Authoring Team
• Communications Team
• TikiFest2013-MontrealOttawa
• Guideline for a typical video clip