@MarkEWaite , I’m not sure whether to ask here or in a documentation thread, Nevertheless, …
I’d like to compliment you on your work both as a chair / moderator of the meetings and your most diligent clerical minute-taking in generating the minutes. Most of all, I really like how you produce the above minutes with the bookmarked links and chapter marks to the appropriate points in the video.
I was wondering if you might share some insights into the tools/process you use in producing the video and the bookmarked links. Does it take you long, is there a technique to marking the points of interest as you are recording or do you have to post-edit, and so on?
This is definitely something I’d like to share with my colleagues in house who record meetings and tech demos, etc and simply post them without context. It is so much more effective than jumping around a linear video to find the right point and topic. It could perhaps even be the subject of a Jenkins blog post as I’m sure a lot of people could learn from your practice and experience.
Thanks for your kind comment! The technique is thanks to @darinpope and YouTube. If the description of a YouTube video includes a series of lines that start with a time stamp in HH:MM:SS format followed by a single line description, then YouTube creates the “chapters” at those time stamps and uses those descriptions. Darin uses the technique very effectively in the “Modernizing a plugin” livestream series:
Livestream Videos
Darin Pope and Mark Waite presented a livestream video series on modernizing Jenkins plugins. The videos are available as:
Part 1 - Choosing your plugin, update the parent pom, update Jenkins base version
Part 2 - Spotbugs, incremental builds, dependency updates, and release drafter
Part 3 - Migrate docs to GitHub, add a “report an issue” link, interactive testing
Part 4 - Enable continuous delivery, plugin bill of materials
Part 5 - Topics and labels on repositories, resolving security scan reports
Those videos are much more effective for me as a listener because they include the YouTube timeline that allows direct access to subtopics.
Applying the technique to meetings
I take notes during the meetings and then use those notes to make my guess at the topics to include in the timeline. I download the recording of the Zoom meeting and play it on my computer so that I can find the timestamps that should be included in the timeline. When I upload the Zoom recording to YouTube, I place the timestamps into the YouTube description of the video. YouTube generates the chapters and converts the timestamps into hyperlinks.
After the video has been uploaded and YouTube processing is complete, I copy the description from YouTube (that now includes hyperlinks to the points in the timeline) into a community posting here. I insert the line breaks and make each timeline item an entry in a list and publish the page.
