two cents from a GuixSD newbie... (I'll skip presentations, forgive me) Ricardo Wurmus writes: [...] > While screencasts can be useful, I don’t think they are the most useful > tool to convey ideas. Much of what’s special about Guix is not the > command line user interface, but the underlying ideas. These are better > illustrated, I think, with the help of graphics as we have been doing > for years when introducing Guix to new audiences. this applies to **a lot** of other video documentation material, from application user guides to presentations > One concern is also translations and future updates. Recording a > terminal session with screencasting software makes it impossible for us > to easily translate the video. When command line interactions are to be > shown I’d prefer to have a way to reproduce / regenerate the output in a > different locale automatically, i.e. using scripts. the same holds for GUI interaction (when a GUI video-doc is needed); I'm not an expert in GUI "scripting" but I guess something like xdotool script executed in a "classical" screencast application could do the job (maybe https://github.com/rprichard/x11-canvas-screencast is interesting, too) > We can easily mix what amounts to a narrated slideshow with scripted > command line sessions (cf asciicasts). This can easily be automated, so > that we can rebuild the video and update it with minimal effort to > prevent it from getting stale. > > Setting up this automation to some degree is part of the project, in my > opinion. This could be done via scripts or tied together with a > Makefile. this would be simply great :-) if I had money to invest I would _pay_ for such an automation system > The big advantages I see over a recorded live session are as follows: > > - no need to get it all right in one take > - prepared narration can result in much more effective communication of > ideas > - easy to rebuild > - easy to translate > - no need for manual video editing to cut out irrelevant parts > - separate treatment of audio and video portions; audio portions can be > recorded by native speakers. great, simply *great*: thank you for sharing this useful ideas! [...] ciao Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures