Audio & video recording from Lync

Temporary, non-streaming location (to be updated once we can get it to Ensemble):
Windows Media Player video file

(For future reference, 1 hour of audio & video will take about 1 1/2 hours of processing time on a Windows 7 Dell laptop with an Intel i5 250 Ghz processor and 4 megs of RAM.)

Session notes

Introduction:
Dena’s slide show

Details:
Documentation suite templates – the bones of the system

Software installation templates – a particular page from the system

Craig’s notes from the caffeine break covers a lot of what was discussed here

Some things that didn’t show up in the caffeine break but did here:

Community-developed IllinoisNet (WPA2) configurations – an example of how to get crowdsourcing to work:

• Link it in from somewhere that isn’t the wiki, because Google doesn’t index the wiki
• Include short instructions on how you want people to contribute
• Provide an example page template if you want detailed results covering specific things

• Best-case space permissions:
  • World readable
  • Editable by anyone who logs in with a NetID
    (or, in the inter-university-cooperative future, Shibboleth/OpenID)
  • Movable/deletable by the space admin group
• Sometimes you just can’t get the best case scenario. (The space that holds that wiki isn’t set to world readable; you have to log in before you can see anything or search anything.)

• How to motivate crowdsourcing:
  • Enlightened self-interest by people who’ll need to refer back to their own notes (or refer others to their notes)
  • Games, competition, rewards – best contributions/most contributions/star system
  • Carrots are MUCH more valuable than sticks

• When not to use crowdsourcing:
  • When you have a time frame/a deadline
  • When you don’t have any way of motivating people to contribute (neither a carrot nor a stick)
  • When it would cost you more in overhead to create the metadocumentation to teach your crowdsourcers what you need than to do it in-house