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willkg edited this page Jun 12, 2011 · 2 revisions

Moderator documentation

Accepting/rejecting videos in the queue

I use the following criteria for rejection:

  • tutorial videos from YouTube": Most of them aren't very good, are rife with errors and just aren't worth adding to the site.
  • lacking an audio track
  • crummy video
  • has slides that can't be read
  • ambient noise in the audio

PyCon and other conferences

Conferences get a category that's the name of the conference plus the year. Thus "PyCon 2011" is a different category than "PyCon 2010".

Videos in the conference are put in their respective conference category.

The title is "<conference> <year>: <talk title>". For example: PyCon 2011: Python IDEs Panel. We do this because then it shows up nicely in the different index views on the site.

The description is done in simple html like this:

<p>TALK TITLE</p>
<p>Presented by PRESENTER(S)</p>
<p>
   DESCRIPTION
</p>

Generally, I copy and paste the description from the conference site. If the description is lacking, I'll watch the first 15 minutes of the video and add some more to the description.

If the video has audio/video issues, I add something like this to the bottom of the video description:

<p>
   [VIDEO HAS ISSUES: audio cuts out for the first 20 seconds,
   then is fine after that]
</p>

For tags, blip.tv adds a bunch of silly tags which I remove. I'll add a tag for the conference, then a tag for the conference plus year (ex. pycon, pycon2011), then I try to add tags that cover what the presenter is talking about. It's definitely worth looking at existing videos on the site for examples.

Note:

The user for PyCon videos should be set to "PyCon".

Non-conference videos

I try to structure things like the conference videos. I usually have to watch some portion of the video to write a decent description.

It's not uncommon for me to have to figure out how to spell the presenter's name and I do this by reading the slides, copious Google searches, and some luck.

If the video is from a Python user group, the category gets set to that group.

Tags work the same way as the conference video.

Tags

Here's a list of tags I use:

  • community for community groups, community building, ...
  • core for python vm/language core material
  • language for python language things
  • python3 for python3 related things
  • tutorial for tutorials
  • casestudy for case-studies of how Python or something related to Python helped some company
  • <library/app name> for any libraries, applications, ...
  • <pug name> for the Python user group that hosted the talk (ex. chipy)
  • chriswebber for anything Chris has done--he's prolific
  • ...
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