After last year’s Summer of Code, someone at Google (Zaheda Bhorat) suggested that students make a short video (5 minutes) where they would present their project. I actually didn’t see any video coming since that time, probably because it would have required quite a bit of work.
However, after letting Zaheda’s email stay in my “To do” mail folder for about a year (!), and after taking part in Summer of Code 2006, I decided to get to work.
So here’s a video report of my work in Summer of Code 2005 & 2006. It is about 10 minutes long, has subtitles explaning what I’d m doing, and some music to make the whole thing more watchable. I’m no video editor expert, but I do hope it is watchable 
The first part is about Ubuntu:
And the second part is about OLPC:
I posted a few “howtos” about how I made this, so I hope other Summer of Code students will soon make videos about their own project:
I also did upload it on Google Video, but it seems that it’s been downsized a bit too much. Comments welcome!
I don’t think you need sounds in your videos.
Right, but somehow I thought it would make the video less boring
Can you make a downloadable, non-flash version of your video? I’m trying to watch the 1024×768 version, and it didn’t work on my thinkpad with Ubuntu, and it barely plays on the macintosh G5 we have here at work.
Sure, here it is:
http://www.manucornet.net/soc/Google_SoC_video_report_Manu_Cornet.avi
(about 70 M).
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Flash is not free or open. Making reports about free software in Flash is counter productive when they can’t actually be viewed using the free software you are working on. (Ubuntu).
Should we stop using Java too?
Yes, I have no working Java plug-in on my X86_64 system with gcc 4.1. Java 1.5 still has no plug-in for x86_64, while the 1.4 makes your browser crash. So using Java for this kind of things just sucks too…
Why is the font size on the OLPC display increased instead of the DPI of the display? Surely it makes more sense to set the DPI to the correct size which will make the fonts big enough and look better. This is what I do on my 132 dpi laptop screen. Or does it have something to do with the swizzling?
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