FOSS for GIS video tutorials and screencasts

This is page is a try to create a central index of all available Video Tutorials and Screencasts about FOSS for GIS.

As creating a central repository is not easy due to licenses, video formats and disk space we are using this page to list all pages hosting interesting videos.

please add you contribute at the bottom of the list respecting the table layout

Screencasts and Video List
this part is dedicated to short movies showing technical usage of FOSS GIS applications. Less than 10 mins each, please.

Presentations and long Speaches
Long public presentations of FOSS GIS softwares

OSGeo-related videos preserved at the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)
The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) ‒ Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology is a central specialised library, it is a national infrastructure facility for the provision of scientific information. TIB is actively collecting videos from past, current and upcoming OSGeo conferences and similar events.


 * FOSSGIS Konferenz 2011 : Heidelberg, 05. - 07. April 2011 (2016-05: 24 vids)
 * FOSSGIS Konferenz 2012 : Dessau, 20. - 22. März 2012 (2016-05: 47 vids)
 * FOSSGIS Konferenz 2013 : Rapperswil, 12. - 14. Juni 2013 (2016-05: 30 vids)
 * FOSSGIS Konferenz 2014 : Berlin, 19. - 21. März 2014 (2016-05: 71 vids)
 * FOSSGIS Konferenz 2015: Münster, 11. - 13. März 2015 (2016-05: 69 vids)
 * FOSS4G Seoul 2015 (2016-05: 2 vids)
 * LocationTech Summit 2014 (2016-05: 14 vids)
 * FOSS4G Nottingham 2013 (2016-05: 95 vids)
 * BSDCan 2014 (2016-05: 24 vids)

All videos preserved by TIB receive a digital object identifier (DOI) to make them directly citable in scientific publications and wikis and blogs. Details on such video quotes

How to do your screencast
please add your suggestions on how you did your screencast. Please try to use and suggest Free Software.

Linux

 * Easist way: recordmydesktop (on Mandriva, install with 'urpmi gtk-recordmydesktop')
 * Ubuntu discussion over screencast
 * Ubuntu screencast how to
 * vnc2swf to record a flash movie (short vnc2swf usage tutorial)

Mac

 * Chris Schmidt experience on Os X

Windows

 * Taksi - Desktop Screenshot, Video Capture/Recorder - worked well for capturing OpenGL output (I used it to record from VTerrain's Enviro viewer)

Where to publish your screencast
Actually main free video hosting are using a strong dowsampling that does not allow a good video quality to present screencast.

Then you'll need to find your own web hosting or a free one that can host just the video without resampling.

Hosting Portals
There are specialized hosting services for tutorials:


 * Learn2Use (German)

Suggestions

 * What about distribution the videos with a bittorrent-style distribution? Maybe OSGeo could provide the infrastructure for this?

TiB

 * TIB AV-Portal - Technical Information Library located in Hannover (Germany)
 * TIB AV-Portal provides access to high grade scientific films from the fields of engineering, architecture, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics.
 * FOSS4G and FOSSGIS conferences are published here
 * Peter Löwe works at TiB
 * https://av.tib.eu
 * Example Search for FOSS4G https://av.tib.eu/search?198&q=FOSS4G

Process to publish the videos from a conference at TiB

 * he videas are needed as mp4
 * it takes some weeks till the videos are published by TiB. This is why you have to publish the videos on a public server before and pass them to TiB afterwards

Contact persons at TiB

 * Peter Löwe
 * Tolga Karaarslan

Contact persons at OSGeo
Some people worked together with TiB already ([User:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]) You are welcome to aks for information.

What TiB needs

 * video file in mp4 (example foss4g-2016-1047-provide_applications_with_geoportal_framework_mapbender3-hd.mp4)
 * metadatafile (example foss4g-2016-1047-provide_applications_with_geoportal_framework_mapbender3-hd.xml)
 * for example see: https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/astrid_emde/video.foss4g.org/src/master/foss4g2016/example

How TiB gets the videofiles?
You can give Tib a file with all wget requests to load the mp4 files to their server.

For example wget_foss4g2016.sh:

wget http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/FOSS4G-2016/foss4g-2016-1047-provide_applications_with_geoportal_framework_mapbender3-hd.mp4

Astrid can give you a php script to create this file.

How to generate the metadata files

 * for every mp4 file we have to upload (on an ftp server) a metadata file
 * the metadata file has the same name as the mp4 file with ending xml
 * this file can look like see https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/astrid_emde/video.foss4g.org/src/master/foss4g2016/example
 * the xml-files can be generated by the schedule.json file from frab (http://frab.fossgis-konferenz.de/en/foss4g-2016/public/schedule.json)
 * Astrid can give you a script to generate the file for each mp4 file

GIS- and Geo-related Podcasts
Some suggestions from the hivemind (note these are not necessarily open source specific):


 * Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.com/ offers regular podcasts. They occasionally have open source related content by Adena Schutzberg (Directions staff) and others.


 * http://www.opengeodata.org/?cat=13


 * http://hobu.biz/category/podcast/ (note: links seem to be dead as of 15 Jan '08)


 * IT Conversations has a lot of good content, http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/index.html