Category Archives: Advocacy

Ubuntu at Non-Technical Events

By popey | Published: July 19, 2010
We seem to be quite good at turning up to technical events such as LUG meetings, technical conferences and other self-organised events and telling everyone how great Ubuntu is. However we seem to spend a lot of time preaching to the converted, speaking to people who already run Ubuntu or some other distro, rather than [...]
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Working Around blip.tv Video Conversion Failures

By popey | Published: September 7, 2009
One of the things that’s important to me for Ubuntu Screencasts is that they are accessible to people on non-Ubuntu platforms. That basically translates to Windows and OSX, but could also mean set top boxes, media players etc. One reason I like blip.tv is that they will take the Ogg Theora/Vorbis video I create in [...]
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A Video Editor that Just Works

By popey | Published: September 2, 2009
After my troubles this morning and the subsequent helpful comments from readers, I’m pleased to say I’ve worked around the pausing issue with recordmydesktop. Here’s the command line I used to record a Window hard up against the top left of my display. recordmydesktop --width 1024 --height 768 --full-shots --fps 15 --channels 1 --device hw:2,0 [...]
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Screencasting To A Script

By popey | Published: August 27, 2009
Following on from my previous blog post about Getting Back Into Screencasting I’ve put another one together. There’s been some really interesting discussion on Ian Ozsvalds Screencasting Handbook group about the methods people use for screencasting, and I’ve used a couple of ideas here. As part of my experimentation, I made some changes, but a [...]
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Trust In Remote Support

By popey | Published: August 26, 2009
Recently in the Ubuntu-UK LoCo team IRC channel we had a new user arrive with a problem on their Ubuntu computer. Nothing new there, it happens every day, but the way the problem was solved was slightly different than the way we usually do it. I’m looking for feedback on this. Emma told us that [...]
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