How to contribute with WordPress.tv?

Nirmal Desai Moderator @WordPressTV

Business Manager @Multidots

@nirmaldesai2

What is WordPress.tv?

● On WordPress.tv, you’ll find tutorials for both WordPress self-installs and WordPress.com to help you get blogging fast and hassle-free.

● WordPress.tv is also now the place to find all that awesome WordCamp footage that was floating around the web without a home. See the presentations you missed and get a peek at behind-the-scenes action. We call it WordCampTV.

● You’ll also find slideshows of presentations made by WordPress gurus, plus interviews I’ve done with the media and fellow bloggers.

How to create video for WordPress.tv?

Source of WordPress.tv Video

Most of the videos are come from :

● WordCamp● Local Meetups● Interviews● How to’s

Camera Kit

Professional Videographers

Raw Videos upload to Server

How to contribute with WordPress.tv? ( Steps and Procedures)

Get involved with WordPress.org

● Go to https://make.wordpress.org● Click on TV (https://make.wordpress.org/tv/)

and read the Handbook about WordPress.TV● After that, create the necessary accounts to start

your video contribution.

Create your account with WordPress.org

Join the #wptv slack channel

● We have weekly team meetings every Thursday, and they are open to the public! Our next meeting is Thursday, February 2, 2017, 10:30 PM GMT+5:30 in the #wptv channel on Slack.

● If you want to find more about slack then you can visit this link : https://make.wordpress.org/chat/

Start the interacting on Slack

Ask Questions about your queries .

On slack, you are surrounded by nice bunch of people who always eager to help.

● Jerry Bates : @jerrysarcastic - Team Lead - WordPress.tv Moderator Squad● Pascal : @casiepa - Moderator - WordPress.tv● Micheal Wiginton : @roseapplemedia - Moderator - WordPress.tv● John Parkinson : @johnparkinson - Moderator - WordPress.tv● Oleg Belousovs @Oleg - Team Member - WordPress.tv

WPTV videos to edit

Download the necessary toolsIf you are using mac :

● You can use iMovie as Video Editing tools. iMovie is included on all Macintosh computers by default, and is a very capable editor for preparing video for submission to WordPress.tv.

● You can visit this link for the Video editing tutorial : https://videopress.com/v/x2a3RgY2

If you are using Windows:

● You can utilise Camtasia Studio 7 or any other good software.

For file compression :

● To upload your video to WordPress.tv, you will need to make sure that your converted video files are under 1GB in size. If the files you created in your video editing app are over this size limit, you can use another open-source app called Handbrake to compress them so that they can be uploaded.

Edit Intro and Outro Slides

Important Link : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gplm4fU6he7QHJzx6j9Q7B92oqYVH1z_RfEBKnSCTDM/edit#slide=id.g1572197c6f_0_0

Edit the video using tools

Submit a Video

Do the below checks :

● Better Audio Quality● Better Video Quality● Video Size will be less

than 1 GB.● Proper metadata and

information ● Add Slides ( If Available)

Moderator will check and approve the video

Here, It’s your video on

WordPress.tV!!

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● WordPress.tv Contributor – Manually assigned (at present) based on submitting a video to WordPress.tv or having been a team member.

● WordPress.tv Team – Manually assigned by the team.

Latest Stats of WordPress.tv

Years 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

WordCamps 69 71 80 89 115

Videos Published

431 596 938 1377 1527

WordPress.tv YouTube Channel

Thank You!!!

All the Attendees, Volunteers & Organisers @wcUdaipur :-)

@nirmaldesai2