Minutes for 11/14/08

Minutes November 14, 2008

1. Jeremy and DeVan are out today.

2. Minutes from last weeks meeting:

• Pilar: working on IT logo w/ Kristen, working on iMovie workshop w/ Luis and Sai
• DeVan: Following up on thank you emails, library advertising
• Sai: working on Truckis poster issue, tutorial and skitch, iMovie workshop
• Ryan: working w/ wordpress infrastructure
• Luis: iShowU vs. SnapZ/ iMovie workshop
• Follow up on workshops for this week

3. Video Compresion (from Jeremy):

• If everyone can watch the video I made last year on codecs that's an introductory video on codecs (compresion/decompresion of video) and file formats. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb7M0ciLTrE
• For using FFmpegX the website has a lot of really good documentation that explains different aspects such as bitrate, framerate, etc. http://www.ffmpegx.com/video.html
• Please provide Jeremy with very specific questions you have about video compression. You can write them under the google doc "Video Compresion Questions."

4. Internal Certification:

• I think we need some sort of internal certification process for the different concepts (aka storytelling/podcasting/etc) and programs (aka garageband/iMovie/Gimp/wordpress/etc) so lets think about how we are going to do that.

Three possible areas:

1. What is the concept/what is the program used for?
2. Creation of an original product (alone) using a certain predecided elements. (For instance if it was iMovie O8 you would have to import a video, use transitions, use pictures, change volume level, put in a title, etc-things that you need to know how to do.)
3. Troubleshooting knowledge- understanding of more difficult questions and the ability to quickly find unknown answers.
4. Solution Documentation:
5. As we are working on a day to day basis, and have questions that come up, lets make sure we document the solutions. Just make a post on the blog with the issue/problem/question and how it was resolved with screenshots if possible.
6. Discuss working situation after school gets out December 16, 2008.