Tasks
Video killed the radio star
Who knows how successful I’ll be, but I want to tie some videos in with the rest of this work. I feel comfortable writing, so blogs make sense…but if I can create videos of the work I am doing it creates the possibility of opening up a can of YouTube on this project.
Some things I worked on this week RE videos:
- Investigated cameras to use
- Tried a bunch of different camera setups
- Tried different microphones
- Tried recording with phone
- Tried all that stuff in various locations
- Looked into software:
- shotcut — Seems too simplistic
- Davinci Resolve — Does not work well in Linux
- kdenlive — I’ve used this before and seems like a good mix of features, free, and Linux oriented
- Conclusion: I will try using Kdenlive as I feel (slightly) comfortable using it and
That’s not tracking with me…
How do I track work (or how does Umorpha do so?)
- Did a lot of research into tracking tools
- There is a lot of interesting stuff out there, but what I have learned in the past is that complexity will breed ineffectiveness
- I want to find the simplest thing that has the least overhead and just gets out of the way
- Looked at typical issue trackers: Github, Gitlab, Jira, Super Productivity, Tick Tick (this is what I use for personal tracking)
- Conclusion: I think I’ve come to the conclusion that I should probably just lean on Git Issues (in whatever form) for project tracking
Cooperative Investigations
Looking at cooperatives that are out there, specifically tech / software related cooperatives. Some interesting findings:
Discussions with Umorpha
Speaking with Jason this week brought our technical vision back into alignment. We were indeed on the same page with the technical and structural vision we have for a future company. As noted previously I will still put some more effort into understanding the history of Umorpha and it’s end goals in the coming week.