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-clips are interviews of those who are involved in the Tiki community. Broadcast is expected to take place on the Internet using Kaltura hosting services. 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.

BROADCASTING

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

List here:

• YouTube
• Ustream.tv
• Vimeo
• Viddler.com
• Blip.TV
• Others are

The source will reside and be experimented with on Tiki's integration page at Kaltura.org so that open source tools and services can be used by the Tiki community.

The output, meaning the final video clips (namely, the source) will reside at the following location
A complete remake of this page is due, including the logo so that up-to-date information that highlights the recent developments of Tiki version 5 are highlighted.

If of significant value, a clip may also appear on the index page of tw.o (to be confirmed).

Help is being asked to the group who participated at the Marketing brainstorming exercise, the 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

(Important to remember: If the project works well, consideration of “Skype Broadcasts” interviews may be a possible continuation venue whereas video interviews could take place and be published. Therefore, if you're not available for a person-to-person interview, please consider the joining the virtual team:

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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

• Day one: 5pm pre-production discussion
• Day two: Marc Laporte (11 am till 1pm)
• Day three: (Philippe (aka Chealer) about how to earn a living on and with Tiki, Gary on "What is different about Tiki", Shawn and possibly Patricia who will give a real example on how Tiki can help the medical community field)
• Day four:
• (This event did not take place) Friday March 12th at Confoo conference: Marc Laporte's presentation and Louis-Philippe Huberdeau should, in principle be interviewed. it is suggested that once the presentation and interviews are done, coverage of Marc and Louis-Philippe walking around the floor, chatting with acquaintances is filmed.

WHO ELSE

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

1. Gary Cunningham-Lee
2. Marc Laporte
3. Philippe (Chealer)
4. Martin Latulipe
5. Pascal St-Jean
6. Régis Barondeau
7. Rodrigo Primo
8. Denis Zgonjanin (Big Blue Button TikiFest)
9. Nelson Ko (Big Blue Button TikiFest)
10. Fred Dixon (Big Blue Button TikiFest)
11. Louis-Philippe Huberdeau (Big Blue Button TikiFest)

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 the 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.

QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED DURING THE INTERVIEWS

Day one. Interviews conducted:

Take one: Marc Laporte is the first one to be interviewed. Intro about TikiWiki. 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 TikiWiki 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 TikiWiki 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 taking expansion.

• Shooting is continuous. Meaning that interviews are added as TikiFests are taking place.
• Over one hour of video material is available for editing.
• The interview with Marc Laporte needs to be re-done as Marc was wearing a TW shirt and this does not respect the "Timeless and Spaceless" constraint. One of the clip that is being re-done is the conversation about Modularity. It was re-filmed at the Big Blue Button Tiki Fest in Ottawa.

CONSIDERATION OF PARTICIPATING AT THE TIKIFESTNEWYORK6

See the New York Tiki Fest page so that interviews can also be planned with proeminent Video Industry players attending the Open Video Conference

This project is now into PHASE TWO & THREE mode

See the author's Phase Two and Three page as he understands it, the model of a typical video clip and the original Kaltura Video integration page

QUESTIONS?

Note: If you post something here, it will be taken into account and then removed or crossed out.

Daniel.