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What is pyvideo?

pyvideo.org is an index of Python-related conference and user-group videos on the Internet. Saw a session you liked and want to share it? It's likely you can find it, watch it, and share it with pyvideo.org.

This is my last update. pyvideo.org is now in new and better hands and will continue going forward.

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pyvideo status: January 15th, 2016

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What is pyvideo.org

pyvideo.org is an index of Python-related conference and user-group videos on the Internet. Saw a session you liked and want to share it? It's likely you can find it, watch it, and share it with pyvideo.org.

This is the latest status report for all things happening on the site.

It's also an announcement about the end.

Note

Update: See the March 16th blog post covering the current status of pyvideo.org and pyvideo-data.

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pyvideo status: April 9th, 2015

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What is pyvideo.org

pyvideo.org is an index of Python-related conference and user-group videos on the Internet. Saw a session you liked and want to share it? It's likely you can find it, watch it, and share it with pyvideo.org.

This is the latest status report for all things happening on the site.

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pyvideo status: April 9th, 2014

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What is pyvideo.org

pyvideo.org is an index of Python-related conference and user-group videos on the Internet. Saw a session you liked and want to share it? It's likely you can find it, watch it, and share it with pyvideo.org.

Status

I fixed a few issues and finally (finally) pushed out major site updates. Some of them are implemented in the worst possible way (e.g. facet filters for the search page), but some of them are great (e.g. Amara subtitle support).

I'm still struggling with a lot of technical debt on the site and a lack of time to really focus on it. That's mostly what's been making fixing the issues, improving the site and adding conferences take so long.

Sheila and I will be at PyCon US and hanging around for sprint days. If anyone is interested in sprinting, we'll be there. Even if we don't get any coding done, figuring out how to solve some of the bigger problems and planning what should be done in the next year would be a huge accomplishment.

If you're at PyCon and see either of us, feel free to give us a piece of your mind in regards to how you use PyVideo and what could be better.

pyvideo status: February 15th, 2014

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What is pyvideo.org

pyvideo.org is an index of Python-related conference and user-group videos on the Internet. Saw a session you liked and want to share it? It's likely you can find it, watch it, and share it with pyvideo.org.

Status

Over the last year, a number of things have led to a tangled mess of tasks that need to be done that were blocked on other tasks that were complicated by the fact that I had half-done a bunch of things. I've been chipping away at various aspects of things, but most of them were blocked on me finishing infrastructure changes I started in November when we moved everything to Rackspace.

I finally got my local pyvideo environment working and a staging environment working. I finally sorted out my postgres issues, so I've got backups and restores working (yes--I test restores). I finally fixed all the problems with my deploy script so I can deploy when I want to and can do it reliably.

Now that I've got all that working, I pushed changes to the footer recognizing that Sheila and I are co-adminning (and have been for some time) and that Rackspace is graciously hosting pyvideo.

In the queue of things to do:

  • finish up some changes to richard and then update pyvideo to the latest richard
  • re-encode all the .flv files I have from blip.tv into something more HTML5-palatable (I could use help with this--my encoding-fu sucks)
  • fix other blip.tv metadata fallout--for example most of the PyGotham videos have terrible metadata (my fault)
  • continue working on process and tools to make pyvideo easier to contribute to

That about covers it for this status report.

Questions, comments, thoughts, etc--send me email or twart me at @PyvideoOrg or or @willcage.

pyvideo status: November 24th, 2013

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What is pyvideo.org

pyvideo.org is an index of Python-related conference and user-group videos on the Internet. Saw a session you liked and want to share it? It's likely you can find it, watch it, and share it with pyvideo.org.

Status

Lot of stuff has happened since the last status report, but there are four things of note:

  1. Sheila is now a co-admin of pyvideo.org. She has been for a couple of months. I need to update the site to reflect this.

    I'm really psyched about this. It's a ton of work and I'm just not managing it well. Splitting the work should make it more manageable.

  2. Back in July, Sheila poked me about a tweet Jesse wrote suggesting Rackspace was interested in sponsoring Open Source projects. She contacted Jesse and set everything up.

    I'm psyched that Rackspace agreed to sponsor pyvideo.org by providing free hosting. Several months later, I moved pyvideo.org from where it was before to a vm at Rackspace.

    I'm really excited about this! It makes a bunch of problems that I was trying to figure out what to do about go away.

    Thank you, Rackspace!

    I need to update the site to reflect this.

  3. Sheila discovered that blip.tv was expiring a bunch of accounts that held conference videos and that those videos would go away. She and I scrambled to download all the files from blip and move them to Rackspace cloudfiles. It's about 600 videos and around 250gb of data.

    In the process of doing that, we saved videos for DjangoCon EU 2010, DjangoCon EU 2011 and PyGotham 2012. I added these to pyvideo.org today. These videos have pages that are stubs with no metadata. I've got that in my queue of things to fix.

    Also, the thumbnails for all the videos on blip.tv are on my laptop which isn't very helpful. I need to move those and update the videos in pyvideo.org.

    As a side note, if we didn't have hosting from Rackspace, we'd have been totally screwed. Thank you, Jesse Noller and Rackspace!

  4. I've been working on the richard codebase fixing architectural problems, reducing the complexities and trying to clean it up so it's in a better state. That work is almost done. When it is, I'll update pyvideo.org with the new site. At this rate, I think I can finish the work this year, but that assumes there aren't any more emergencies.

  5. I've been thinking about how to build a better communication channel for pyvideo.org so people can more easily follow what's going on so they can act on things they're interested in.

    pyvideo.org has a "site news" section. It's a pain in the ass to use and it's not syndicated anywhere and it's likely no one sees it.

    Blogging status reports like this on my blog is better, but I don't think my blog is very widely read. Making my blog more widely-read seems like a lot of work and I'm not sure I can do it effectively anyhow.

    So I've decided to ditch the "site news" section of pyvideo.org and switch to Twitter. I started a @PyvideoOrg account.

    I'll tweet site updates, calls for help and newly posted conferences. I'm tossing around tweeting new videos when they get posted, but videos tend to get posted in huge batches and getting > 40 tweets all at once is a total drag. I'll have to think about that some more.

    Follow @PyvideoOrg if you're interested! Also, feel free to tweet at that account.

    I need to update the site to reflect this.

Also, in my life things are pretty crazy. I have a new kid and juggling everything was impossible for a while. I think that should easy up now and I can spend more time on pyvideo.org going forward.

That's the state of things!

Also, thank you thank you thank you thank you Rackspace!

pyvideo status: April 3rd, 2013

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What is pyvideo.org

pyvideo.org is an index of Python-related conference and user-group videos on the Internet. Saw a session you liked and want to share it? It's likely you can find it, watch it, and share it with pyvideo.org.

Status

  • Videos for PyCon US 2013 are still going up. There are 115 posted and live now. There are around 30 that are waiting for presenters to look at the metadata and tell Carl whether the metadata is good or not. More on that later.

  • Several new people submitted patches to richard! Several of the patches were fixes to broken things they saw on pyvideo.org. I've applied the fixes to the site directly, but have been waiting on making any non-critical updates to the site until after things have cooled off. I think I'll do a site update in the next week or so.

  • PyData 2013 was recorded. When videos are posted, they'll be in the PyData category. I don't know what the posting schedule is.

  • I was contacted a couple of times by the inimitable Montréal Python to post their videos. They're going to test out steve which is the tool I've been writing for the last 6 months to make it possible for other folks to generate the video metadata needed by pyvideo.org.

    I eagerly look forward to their progress and to their videos getting on the site.

    If it works out well, I'll blog more about steve and look for volunteers to use steve to generate the video metadata for the ever increasing backlog.

  • Several people are gittip'ing me. It's not a lot of money, but that and the many emails I've gotten over the last few weeks about the site have been really great. I work on pyvideo.org in my free time of which I don't have a lot. It's nice to know that prioritizing pyvideo.org work over other things helps you.

That's the gist of things!

Most of the PyCon US 2013 videos that aren't live are waiting for presenters to tell Carl at NextDayVideo (carl at nextdayvideo dot com) whether the metadata is good.

  • If you see your name on this list and you've told Carl the metadata is fine already, please send him a friendly reminder.
  • If you see your name on this list and you haven't told Carl anything, please send him a "yes, this is great!" or the list of things you need corrected.
  • If you see a friend on this list, tell your friend to do one of the above.

I'll update this list as I'm aware of changes. However, I don't work for NextDayVideo, so it's entirely possible my list is not current and/or there are errors. If so, please let me know.

Here's the list (last updated 2013-04-12 7:13am -0400):

  • Digital signal processing through speech, hearing, and Python -- Mel Chua
  • Faster Python Programs through Optimization -- Mike Müller
  • Python beyond the CPU -- Andy Terrel, Travis Oliphant, Mark Florisson
  • Code to Cloud in under 45 minutes -- John Wetherill
  • A Gentle Introduction to Computer Vision -- Katherine Scott, Anthony Oliver
  • Documenting Your Project in Sphinx -- Brandon Rhodes
  • Contribute with me! Getting started with open source development -- Jessica McKellar
  • Intermediate Twisted: Test-Driven Networking Software -- Itamar Turner-Trauring
  • Gittip: Inspiring Generosity -- Chad Whitacre
  • The Magic of Metaprogramming -- Jeff Rush
  • You can be a speaker at PyCon! -- Anna Ravenscroft
  • sys._current_frames(): Take real-time x-rays of your software for fun and performance -- Leonardo Rochael
  • Planning and Tending the Garden: The Future of Early Childhood Python Education -- Kurt Grandis
  • powerful pyramid features -- Carlos de la Guardia
  • Python for Robotics and Hardware Control -- Jonathan Foote
  • Copyright and You -- Frank Siler
  • Chef: Automating web application infrastructure -- Kate Heddleston
  • Numba: A Dynamic Python compiler for Science -- Travis Oliphant, Siu Kwan Lam, Mark Florisson
  • Integrating Jython with Java -- Jim Baker, Shashank Bharadwaj
  • Iteration & Generators: the Python Way -- Luciano Ramalho
  • ApplePy: An Apple ][ emulator in Python -- James Tauber
  • Distributed Coordination with Python -- Ben Bangert
  • Become a logging expert in 30 minutes -- Gavin M. Roy
  • PyNES: Python programming for Nintendo 8 bits -- Guto Maia
  • Purely Python Imaging with Pymaging -- Jonas Obrist
  • Namespaces in Python -- Eric Snow

These are all set now:

  • IPython in-depth: high-productivity interactive and parallel python -- Fernando Perez, Brian Granger, Min RK
  • Pyramid for Humans -- Paul Everitt
  • Learn Python Through Public Data Hacking -- David Beazley
  • Rethinking Errors: Learning from Scala and Go -- Bruce Eckel

pyvideo status: February 3rd, 2013

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What is pyvideo.org

pyvideo.org is an index of Python-related conference and user-group videos on the Internet. Saw a session you liked and want to share it? It's likely you can find it, watch it, and share it with pyvideo.org.

Status

  • Videos for PyCon AU 2012 are posted.

    That's probably the last conference I'm going to do on my own. More about that later.

  • I've made some big changes to richard. For one, formatted fields use Markdown instead of HTML now (yay!). I've improved the API. I've made a lot of layout tweaks and user interface improvements.

  • I pushed out steve v0.1 and then promptly made a bunch of fixes, tweaks and changes. So I need to do a new release soon. steve is the utility people can use to generate conference data for pyvideo.org. See the commandline chapter for details.

I've been working on getting steve and richard to the point where I'm neither doing all the work nor am I the bottleneck for work being done.

I still need to write up a blog post on how to use steve to generate JSON files for pyvideo.org. That will make it possible for anyone to add conference video.

I'm working on changing richard to allow for other people to edit video metadata. It'll continue to be curated, but this will make it possible for other people to help because there are like 1600 videos and the repository continues to grow and I'm just one man. I have some of this worked out on paper, but it needs to be implemented.

That's the current push. I'm hoping to have a lot of this done for PyCon 2013.

pyvideo status: September 14th, 2012

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What is pyvideo.org

pyvideo.org is an index of Python-related conference and user-group videos on the Internet. Saw a session you liked and want to share it? It's likely you can find it, watch it, and share it with pyvideo.org.

Status

I posted the videos for SciPy US 2012 earlier today. They're missing summaries and Carl is forwarding me a bunch of data correction requests. I'll work through that over the next few days.

SciPy 2012 had ok metadata. I spent about 3 hours on SciPy 2012 over the last few weeks.

Next in the hopper are PyCon AU 2012, DjangoCon US 2012 and PyCon DE 2011. You can see the queue of conferences here.

Thinking about a tip jar

pyvideo.org takes a lot of time. Plus the software it runs on is pretty cool and could/should be used for other domains. This is less of a hobby and more of a part-time job.

I've been (slowly) working on collaboration features in richard that make it easier to delegate the work to other people. Even with that, I'll be spending a lot of time on this.

One thing I was thinking about doing was adding a tip jar sort of thing to pyvideo.org. My questions to you are:

  1. is that offensive?
  2. is this site valuable enough to you that you would tip me?
  3. what systems are good for this sort of thing? PayPal? gittip?