My first and last stops in New Zealand were in Auckland, where I stayed with Mark and Annie (Mark is Woodstock class of ’78, both have been on staff), though we barely knew each other – we may have met during one of my visits to the school, and Annie and I worked together (at a distance) on the Woodstock history, but none of us remembers too clearly.
At any rate, Mark picked me up at the airport upon my arrival from Brazil (via Buenos Aires) and remarked: “Whenever I come to the international terminal, it’s to pick up someone I don’t know.” Woodstockers are like that.
The statue of a woman on the rock in the water commemorates a local legend for which the town is named. “Whakatane” means (roughly) “does the work of a man” – she single-handedly saved a big war canoe from slipping out to sea. Or something.
25 months: how long I’ve been shooting video for Sun
well over 200 hours: video in the can (mostly shot by me personally) – and more constantly on the way (the photo above doesn’t show quite all the tapes I’ve got – some were out for editing)
150 hours: video edited, compressed, and published online (not quite all by me)
100s of “productions” ranging from 2-minute community introductions to a 3 hour last word on ZFS.
these videos were shot at about 25 different conferences (some Sun internal), plus on a few other occasions and visits to Sun offices worldwide
~55,000 total views: of these videos as of Sept 18, 2009
speeches/presentations/workshops on how to do videoblogging and social media production
At Sun we have lots of whiteboard walls where people can (well, could, theoretically) scribble down brilliant ideas while they’re discussing deep technological issues over coffee. What they mostly get used for is trenchant corporate humor, as above (note that the “Clothing Optional Teaming Area” has been so named for a very long time).
Recently, Lynn copied the Nerd Venn Diagram onto our coffee area wall, just to see what would happen:
Some responses were philosophical:
Some inscrutable (to me, anyway):
(I would have used a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.)
Some topical:
And my personal favorite:
^ the intersect of “times of true bliss” and “times with pants on”.
13 months: how long I’ve been shooting video for Sun
150 hours: video in the can (mostly shot by me personally) – and more constantly on the way
50 hours: video edited, compressed, and published online (not quite all by me)
~70 video productions: ranging from 2-minute community introductions to a 2:15 hour deep dive on MPxIO
140 files: of video, including multiple formats (FLV Flash for embedding in a web page, M4V to download for iPod viewing)
16,103 total views: of these videos (as hosted on Mediacast – some are also available in other places such as YouTube) as of Sept 10, 2008
~20,000 page views: to video posts on Storage Stop since the first video was posted (Oct 24, 2007). If these posts were a blog of their own, it would be #165 in Sun blog rankings for that period. (Storage Stop overall comes in at #87 for this period.)
1 email: all it takes to find out how you can put these videos to work for you: e.g., embed them in your blog, distribute on DVD… We want to open source our knowledge. Let’s talk about it.
A conversation on Radio Software Livre (FISL) about using video to communicate about open software. Bruno Souza interviews (and translates for) Deirdré Straughan and Aaron Newcomb.
