Title: One-hour Video Challenge
Author: Jen
Published: February 26, 2016
Last modified: February 27, 2016

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#  One-hour Video Challenge

Welcome to the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences
covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress
community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the
year and share the joy. [Learn more](https://central.wordcamp.org/about/). Video
Challenge, our WordPress.tv (WPTV) teams’s first global contributor weekend! The
goal of this weekend challenge is to make it easy for anyone to become a volunteer
contributor to wordpress.tv. There are two ways you can accept this challenge

**Option #1:** Create one hour worth of subtitles or captions to add to an existing
video on WordPress.tv that needs them, and submit your caption file to WordPress.
tv to be added to the video. You can do this by subtitling several videos that are
shorter in length, as long as the total number of video minutes add up to 60 or 
more. It’s also okay to do partial captioning, such as adding subtitles for the 
first half of a 40-minute video. The tool we use lets you save them and then somebody
else can come along and do the remaining portion later.

[Instructions for completing this challenge here](http://wordpress.tv/using-amara-org-to-caption-or-subtitle-a-wordpress-tv-video/)

**Option #2:** Edit one hour of WordCamp video and submit to WordPress.tv.

If you can complete either of these challenges over the course of the weekend, that
would be amazing, but there is no minimum commitment — even just starting out and
giving us as much as you were able to finish is a helpful contribution! We will 
tally the results of this weekend contributor drive both individually and per local
meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress
world but are not WordCamps are organized through [https://www.meetup.com/](https://www.meetup.com/).
A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share
new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com
will help you find options in your area. group, so getting together with some other
folks to work on videos together is a great way to participate and have fun.

[You can get started with this challenge here!](https://make.wordpress.org/tv/handbook/video-editing/)

### Here’s what you’ll need to participate:

 * A WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created
   and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress
   core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations
   and organization. [https://wordpress.org/](https://wordpress.org/) account – 
   [Log in at wordpress.org/support](https://wordpress.org/support/). If you don’t
   already have an account there, create one.
 * A WordPress.org SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/).
   The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)
   account – If you are not already on it, [join the WordPress.org Slack instance](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)
   for contributors. This is the group chat room application we use for all WordPress
   contributor teams, and is where the WPTV team will be available to answer questions
   if you get stuck. It’s also where the action will be reported as we periodically
   tally how many submissions we’ve had over the weekend.
 * Computer – You will need a laptop or desktop computer for the video editing challenge,
   and it is recommended for the subtitle/caption challenge. You may be able to 
   use a tablet or mobile device for the subtitle/caption challenge, so if that 
   applies to you, let us know in Slack in the [#WPTV](https://make.wordpress.org/tv/tag/wptv/)
   channel.
 * Headphones – This is optional if you are working in a quiet space by yourself,
   but if you are in a shared workspace, or other noisy location, you will need 
   headphones
 * Editing Software (Video Editing Challenge only) – The edits you need to make 
   on a typical WordCamp video are simple and don’t require a professional app, 
   but you will need something that has basic editing tools, such as iMovie on a
   Mac. There is an open-source application called [Shotcut](https://www.shotcut.org/)
   you can download for free as well.

### What to do when you are ready to start the WordCamp Video Challenge:

 * [Add yourself to the challenge spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VEel_ajwRwD8Z7uOgTEQ9jZwz8tLUalOzNgOTZQ-eM/edit?usp=sharing).
   Pick an empty row and enter your name, wordpress.org username, slack username,
   and location, and which challenge option (editing or captions) you want to take
   on. You can choose both types if you want to try both. When you have chosen a
   video to subtitle or edit, grab the link and put it into the appropriate column—
   this will give us an easier way to track your work when we tally the results 
   next week. If you are not on this spreadsheet, we won’t have a way to credit 
   you for your participation, so do this first!
 * Join the [#wptv](https://make.wordpress.org/tv/tag/wptv/) channel at https://
   wordpress.slack.com/messages/wptv/ and introduce yourself to any video team members(
   and/or other challenge takers) who might be online to let them know you are getting
   started.
 * Open the [wptv handbook](https://make.wordpress.org/tv/handbook/) in a tab so
   you’ll have quick access to the main reference for completing your challenge.
 * If you are going to work on subtitling/captioning, [follow these instructions to begin creating subtitles](http://wordpress.tv/using-amara-org-to-caption-or-subtitle-a-wordpress-tv-video/)
 * If you are going to work on video editing, [follow these instructions to begin editing](https://make.wordpress.org/tv/handbook/video-editing/).

**How will we assess your answer?**

Once the challenge weekend has ended, the video team will check out all submissions
during the following week and create a tally of how many minutes of video you have
subtitled and/or edited. When we announce next month’s contributor weekend, we will
recognize all those who successfully completed the video challenge. It is okay to
try your hand at both subtitles and video editing this weekend — you don’t have 
to complete an hour of each to successfully complete the challenge, just an hour
all together, so you could (for example) subtitle a 20 minute video and edit a 45
minute video and that would be considered successful for this challenge weekend.

> Please be sure to add your name and info about the video you worked on [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VEel_ajwRwD8Z7uOgTEQ9jZwz8tLUalOzNgOTZQ-eM/edit#gid=2134265969).
> We want to be sure you get recognized for your hard work!

**Who’s running this show?**
 There are often a number of volunteers in the [#wptv](https://make.wordpress.org/tv/tag/wptv/)
channel on Slack (as mentioned above, you’ll need to create an account to interact
there) who can help if you if you need help. [@jerrysarcastic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jerrysarcastic/)
will be online on Saturday to answer questions, and other volunteers will pop in
and out throughout the weekend.

**What counts as “the weekend” for this thing?**
 As long as it is February 27-28
in your time zone, your contributions will be counted. After we’ve caught up with
checking all the submissions that have come in from the end of the challenge, we’ll
tally it all up, and we’ll post the results here on [our team blog](https://make.wordpress.org/tv).
The results will also be published to meetup groups in the March email from the 
community team, and in a post on wordpress.org/news.

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