Subtitling DebConf talks — Come and join!
As I have said here a couple of times already, I am teaching a diploma course on embedded Linux at UNAM, and one of the modules I’m teaching (with Sandino Araico) is the boot process. We focus on ARM for obvious reasons, and while I have done my reading on the topic, I am very far from considering myself an expert.
So, after attending Martin Michlmayr’s «Debian on ARM devices» talk, I decided to do its subtitles as part of my teaching job. This talk gives a great panorama on what actually has to happen in order to get an ARM machine to boot, and how support for new ARM devices comes around to Linux in general and to Debian in particular — Perfect for our topic! But my students are not always very fluent in English, so giving a hand is always most welcome.
In case any of you dear readers didn’t know, we have a DebConf subtitling team. Yes, our work takes much longer to reach the public, and we have no hopes whatsoever in getting it completed, but every person lending a hand and subtitling a talk that they thought was interesting helps a lot to improve our talks’ usability. Even if you don’t have enough time to do the whole talk (we are talking about some 6hr per 45 minute session), adding a bit of work is very very very welcome. So…
- Do you want to follow Martin's talk with subtitles?
- Get the video file
- Get the subtitles
- Use your favorite program — In my case:
$ vlc Debian_on_ARM_devices_2.webm --sub-file Debian_on_ARM_devices.srt - [update] Or watch online at Amara!
- Do you want to help the subtitling effort?
- Read the Wiki page on the Subtitling team work (feel free to fill in bits of missing information you will surely find!)
- Choose a video from the list to work on
- You can either work online on the DebConf team of the Amara webapp or join the Alioth team and contribute directly to the Git tree
Enjoy — And thanks in advance for your work!