Hi @lzap,
This is indeed great news!
to everyone who contributed a video over the past few years.
Creating videos is a time consuming task, but the majority of people would rather watch a video demo of what they’re trying to achieve than read through docs, so I think video creation is a worthy effort. Even videos that lack the shine of a marketing executive can be extremely useful for community members to get to grips with new concepts. I am forever in debt to those who took the time to record and upload their efforts to YouTube.
This also reminds me of the debates that occurred here in the community such as RFC: Make Foreman easy to deploy and maintain - #17 by viwon and Lot of critisism on reddit.com - #68 by John_Mitsch - there are similar themes that run through both of these discussions, both revolve around how to make Foreman easier to deploy and maintain. A short-term, non-technical solution to some of these problems would be to create video walk-throughs of key scenarios. If these videos exist already, we need to find a way to make them a more prominent part of the Getting Started experience on the site.
Another idea that I was thinking of was the findability of the content that we demo in community demos. For example, when I look at the channel now I see: Foreman Community Demo - #76 etc, but if I am looking for a video demo of the new External IPAM feature that I might want to use, I have to read more and dig deeper to find that - which I might not have the sense to do. One idea would be to host both the Community Demos and also to split the demos into unique videos hosted with a better name that users might find. Do you think that might be worth doing?
That reminds me, I remember this thread Deep Dive on Host Creation/Provisioning? - #8 by Walden - did anything ever happen with this? If a deep-dive doesn’t exist, either as a series of videos (probably more manageable and less-time consuming) that we could add to a playlist, or a longer, more traditional deep dive into this area would be extremely valuable. Would a more modular approach to a deep dive help community members contribute in a limited amount of time?
To answer your question: I think it would be a good idea to record a video like this, perhaps with an overview of the core components, and then asking for users to comment on what they’d like to see. It might be a nice addition to the newletter to mark 1000+ subscribers. I’m wondering if we could also go a step further where we could have user problems solved in videos if there are themes in the requests for help in the community.
Just thinking out loud at this stage. 