Tristan Log

This Weeks Tasks

• Develop system for video footage to be edited remotely.
• Promote Focus Forward Film (goes live 11/7/12).
• Make trencher video for posting 11/11/12.

Ongoing Tasks

• Update Facebook page with all new compelling OSE material.
• Take at least 7 Instagram photos per week (1 per day).
• Consider / devise interesting future videos.

Daily Log

Nov.6
OSEdit: Remote Editing System
OSEdit is a system that aims to connect open source projects (OSP's) with remote video editors. The system enables both parties to collaborate in creating promotional and documentation material for the benefit of all OSP's who can utilize the service. Additionally, the system advises / enables the transfer of large video files between the OSP's and their remote editors. The system aims to foster and grow a community of video editing collaborators, interested in sharpening their craft while helping open source projects grow, and gaining 'kudos' within the OSEdit community.

The need for OSEdit is based around several factors:

• Video editors / programs are expensive.
• OS start-ups typically don't generate much income.
• Open source projects / innovations can be documented / communicated very effectively with video.
• OSP's can gain online exposure / donations more effectively with video promotion.
• Shooting HD video is now cheap / easy, whereas editing is relatively complex / expensive.
• There are many young editors / film students looking for ways to practice their editing skills.
• Transferring large amounts of footage over the Internet can be complex / confusing.

OSEdit aims to help both start-up and established OSP's. To start-ups, the service offers the ability to create superior video products than might otherwise be possible. As mentioned, HD video is now relatively cheap and easy with modern mobile devices and compact cameras. Small open source operations are capable of filming their own footage, and specialized editors can offer improved production value to video products remotely. To established OSP's such as OSEcology, remote editors can help to process excess video material into helpful instructional or promotional videos. As an example, OSEcology currently has many hundreds of gigabytes of unused material which could be put to work in this fashion.

How the System Will Work
Initially, OSEdit will be used only to service the needs of OSEcology. Here we will test the efficiency of the system, and plant the seeds of a video editing community that we aim to nurture. In practice, this will involve indexing the footage we have acquired over the past years of OSEcology documentation into an easily navigable database of video material. Footage will be organised into appropriate packages, the content of which will surround a specific machine / process / infor

Promoted 'Build Yourself'

Social Media https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151501703026562.595958.66469461561&type=1

• Took screenshots from the Focus Forward submitted 'Build Yourself'.
• Edited images so they really pop.
• Combined them into a collage.
• Added text: "FROM TOMORROW (Nov.6th) OSE needs your vote for our 3min video! Check our FB page tomorrow or sign up for OSEmail to help us win the Focus Forward film competition and spread the word about our work."
• Shared on Facebook / Twitter.

Emailed

• Corey Doctorow - BoingBoing.com editor asking him to share our video tomorrow.
• Annaliza Savage - Wired Video Executive asking her to share our video tomorrow.
• Emily James - UK documentary filmmaker will share video on her network.