[Drawkit] Introductory demo ??

[Brad Larson]

On Jun 18, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Troy Rollins wrote:

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> On Jun 18, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Eric Jarvies wrote:
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>> if graham has time over the next month, i will also make time, and  
>> will help document some basic, yet detailed drawkit tutorials,  
>> properly graphically illustrated.   ideally, if graham could reduce  
>> his workspace to 800x600, and use ishowu(i can loan my license for  
>> this purpose), and essentially record the process of him setting up  
>> this slim demo app, recording audio dialog(narrative), an so on.    
>> then i could take and edit the video/audio, organize the files,  
>> etc., and create a nice, simple, yet powerful tutorial showing the  
>> meat and potatoes of drawkit.   if this is something that works for  
>> you graham, then let me know, and sometime over the next month we  
>> can arrange and organize this collaboration, and make it happen.
>
> That sounds like a great idea Eric. Thanks for stepping up. I'm sure  
> it would help the community grow, as new people could get the basics  
> down more quickly.
>
> As for me, I'm starting to get past the initial stages, and actually  
> getting some stuff working and customized properly, though I'm sure  
> the intro stages could be made gentler through a more basic demo...  
> might serve well enough until there is a complete documentation set.
>
> Regarding docs... maybe there should be a wiki, where we can all try  
> to chip in?
>

I'm almost finished with our little DrawKit-based drawing application  
and will post that as soon as I think it's presentable.  It's much  
lighter than the DrawDemo sample, which is intended to show off all of  
the DrawKit capabilities.  Our program is document-based,  
unfortunately, so it's not as simple as you request.

If Graham doesn't think it would be too confusing or diverting, I  
could host interactive documentation for DrawKit on my personal site.   
It's Drupal-based, so I have quite a bit of flexibility as to how this  
could be set up (as an example, stop by Drupal.org and look at their  
handbooks, which are collaboratively written on the site).  At the  
least, I could do a little writeup on getting started with DrawKit  
from the things I've learned.  I use ScreenFlow a bit at work, so a  
screencast could also be a possibility.  Finally, I could host a  
discussion forum on the topic at my site, but the mailing list seems  
to have worked well for conversations so far.

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