OK, the holidays are behind us (well, way behind us now) and it’s been a while since you’ve had an update from 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. TV moderator team.  That is not to say we have not been busy; here is what we’ve done to date:

• Since forming our moderator group on Nov 20th, we have published 58 videos. That’s a new WordCamp video every day, and that’s just with us getting our feet wet; we’d like to improve that to 3 videos a day.
• Those videos represent great presentations from the following major 2012 WordCamps: Las Vegas, Toronto, Sydney, Raleigh, Nashville, and Chicago.
• To increase the usefulness of the content we publish, we now include full text descriptions as well as links to relavent content, such as source code and presentation slides, with every video we publish.  Sometimes this is easy, and sometimes a little sleuthing is required.
• At times we have also (sadly) had to make the call to not publish videos.  This does not happen often, but we want to put the quality of the videos we publish first and foremost, which makes for some tough decisions.   It’s never a good feeling to hold back great information due to technical problems such as weak audio, poor video, etc.  More on that in a second…

What’s next

Up to this point we have primarily been focused on working with a publication systems that already exists.  Now that we’ve had some time to settle in, we have some definite thoughts for how we can do even more to improve the videos you see on WordPress.tv as we move forward.

• We have started creating (and need to finish) a set of  guidelines/approval standards for videos that we can pass on to WordCamp organizers; hopefully this will reduce the number of submissions we reject due to technical problems and lead to a higher quality experience overall.
• Create process documents for the day-to-day stuff we do; an instruction manual on how to be a mod, if you will.  As WordCamps grow worldwide, the need for moderators can only increase, and we want to be sure we’ve got good materials ready for that eventuality.

We’re also planning on having a real-time meeting in the next few weeks (tough, due to our global makeup) to discuss these major directives, plus consider other ideas as we move forward.  Our plan is to have this 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/. 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. on IRC using the new #wordcamp channel.  When that date is set, we’ll share it here and you are welcome to attend.

Also, if you are interested in becoming a mod, why not let us know in the comments here or on our team’s P2P2 “P2” is the name of the theme the blogs of make.wordpress.org use. When asked to post or view something “on the p2” by a member of the WPTV team, that usually means you’re asked to check https://make.wordpress.org/tv. blog; we’d love to grow our team, and as a reward you can watch as many WordCamp videos as you want!

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Hi, I’m Jerry, and I’m our weekly reporter for WordPress.tv Event Video management. As a team, we met up over Skype to get to know one another and kick things off.   Owing to differing schedules (definitely a global team here!) we are primarily “meeting” and communicating via a P2 blog we’ve set up, and that has been working very well for us.  And we’ve also been publishing 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. videos and learning the ropes over at wordpress.tv and the system that has been put in place over there, which is new to us all.

WordPress.tv Event Video Management Update 12/06/12

This Week:

• Initially we have a queue of pending videos to publish, with lots of great speakers from WordCamp Chicago and WordCamp Raleigh.
• We’ve published over 20 videos to date, with more to come!
• Begun documenting the approval standards and best-practices for videos published to the site.
• Been fooled a few times by spammers.  ::shakes fist::
• Learned a lot by watching others teach.  🙂

Coming Week

1. Continue to build documentation around our processes.
2. ???
3. Profit.

OK, joking about that last part. For now the feeling in the room is that we are learning by doing, and our action plan is informed by the things we are learning as we publish content. In other words, watch this space for more news…

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