[Activities] Video Editing Activity for XO

[Samuel Klein]

Hiya Manu, Rob is naturally a great person to talk to about this.   you
should also write to iaep and the sugar list, since it woudl be good to have
people who are experienced with extracting video converting power out of the
available hardware chiming in or helping with the code.  and as you might
expect, Erik B and Bakhtiar M have thought about what such an activity might
look like since working on Record.

SJ

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Manusheel Gupta <manu at laptop.org> wrote:

> Caryl,
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> Very welcome.
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> Appreciate your great support and encouragement.
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> Regards,
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> Manu
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> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>wrote:
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>>  Hello Manu!
>> Wow!  I am not an "official person", just a volunteer, but my
>> understanding of OLPC, SugarLabs and FLOSS tells me the answer is probably a
>> resounding "yes!."  I will cc your message to some of the folks who know a
>> lot more than I do so they can steer you in the right direction or send it
>> on to someone who can.
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>> Thanks so much for your offer.  The quality of the projects you have
>> already developed tells me this could be a really wonderful Activity for the
>> XO and Sugar.
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>> Caryl
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>> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:48:28 +0530
>> Subject: Video Editing Activity for XO
>> From: manu at laptop.org
>> To: cbigenho at hotmail.com
>> CC: rmo25 at cornell.edu
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>> Caryl,
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>> Hope all is well at your end.
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>> We have a Sugar in-house group at SEETA (Software for Education,
>> Entertainment and Training Activities), an organization that I founded
>> recently. All the learning projects developed by us - Listen and Spell,
>> SocialCalc on Sugar, Food Force II, Deducto, One Page Wiki, run well on the
>> XO-1.
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>> Our team would be interested in developing and maintaining a video editing
>> activity for the XO-1. Kindly let me know if we can participate.
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>> Thank you.
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>> Regards,
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>> Manu
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>> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:01:51 -0700
>> From: Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: FW: OLPC Projects/VideoEditing and Video Edit
>> To: Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond t
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>> devel at lists.laptop.org>
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>> Hi All,
>> Here is a great opportunity for someone to pick up where Robert left off
>> and contribute something really useful, fun, educational, practical, and
>> wanted for the XO and SoaS.  Robert is willing to advise and help anyone who
>> wants to pick up this project to get a Video Editing Activity into Sugar.
>> See details in our correspondence below.
>> Chao!
>> Caryl
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>> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:43:20 -0400
>> Subject: Re: OLPC Projects/VideoEditing and Video Edit
>> From: rmo25 at cornell.edu
>> To: cbigenho at hotmail.com
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>> Hello Caryl,
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>> My work on the project has stalled. When I left off last year, a gstreamer
>> glitch was causing OGGs from the XO camera to freeze the system, which
>> compounded with performance issues stalled the project. There's a good
>> chance that that particular problem has been resolved, and I too would love
>> to see a video editing activity on the XO.
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>> I'm not sure how much work I'll be able to do, but I am definitely
>> available to advise and help out how I can. If a volunteer is interested, I
>> would imagine a good deal could be done in porting an existing free video
>> editor (pitivi is what I tried due to the similarities in its toolkit and
>> that being used for sugar) to the XO interface.
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>> Keep in touch,
>> Robert
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>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
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>> Hello,
>> I am a member of the OLPC Support Gang and am mentoring a project that
>> wants to use simple video editing on the XO as a part of their activities.
>>  I see that both of you were working on this last year, but that nothing has
>> been posted on the wiki about it for several months.
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>> What is the current status of your projects?  Is anyone working on them
>> now?  What was the state of the projects when you last worked on them?  Is
>> it something that one of our volunteer programmers could bring to
>> completion?
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>> There is really a lot of interest in having a simple video editing
>> Activity for the XO and Sugar.  At this point, folks are just suggesting a
>> lot of substitutes such as Turtle Art and Google Docs presentations.  But,
>> of course, what you folks were working on would be far better.
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>> Let me know what is happening!
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>> Thanks,
>> Caryl Bigenho, OLPC Support Volunteer
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