Hi Zeljko

Video does require specific skills, better equipment, and good software; it's not a common skill set or expense most contributors will invest in, webm is less supported even by the FLOSS community. It's not about being informed and transparent, its about having the skills, equipment, and software then sharing or making it available to the community. We also need to invest in presenting support and quality video recording using microphones, tripods, and lighting. The development of 720p through to 8k has been rapid and its been focused on mp4 not webm

While it's still at very early stages I have started asking that video editing resources be invested in if we are going to sustain hybrid events as a core part of Wikimania and other events. I have asked the Steering committee to look at support capacity as well as some of the affiliates I have volunteered with.

Most of the volunteers came from those that got scholarships as it was part of the requirement that they support the event as a volunteer in some way. Gisca is the amazing WMF staff member who supported the scholars and other attendees with travel needs, as well as volunteer roles.

On Sat, 14 Oct 2023 at 16:11, Željko Blaće <zblace@mi2.hr> wrote:

On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 9:34 AM Gnangarra <gnangarra@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Z
> Gisca co-ordinated the process using a group of volunteers to cut the daily recordings into single events. Some of them did upload to Commons but the majority of that effort came from Butch.

Hi Gnangarra

I do not know who Gisca is (no such username), but from your input I
see volunteers might remain anonymous (was that their explicit wish?).
Good to see that Butch was able to close that part of work. I would
still appreciate it if there is more info to be shared as openly as
possible and credit all who worked on it in an adequate way.

For example QW2023 (1,5 tracks on 3days x6-7hours with 2,5 languages)
it took more than a week of work for a highly skilled professional
just to get it to YouTube in a good way...we could do better and more
still, but feasibility is something to discuss and will remain open if
we can not manage these workflows in informed and transparent way, so
it is possible to learn and advance, especially with Wikimania.

Best Z.