Hello! One of the things that the Drupal.org Content Working Group is responsible for is drafting policies for content on Drupal.org. We've been asked to help draft a policy for video content that gets featured on the site from the Drupal Association's YouTube channel. Below is a copy of our current draft for community review. We'll leave this issue open until February 15; at that time we'll incorporate the feedback that has been received by the community and work it into a revised draft for final review and approval by the Drupal Association. Thanks!

Drupal Movies and Videos
If you've produced a video about the Drupal and want to share it with the world, let us know! The Drupal Association maintains a YouTube channel for videos about the Drupal project and community: yours can be featured there as well.

Content that's perfect for the Drupal channel

  • Walkthroughs and tutorials that explain Drupal's features
  • Documentary-style videos about the Drupal project, community, or events like DrupalCon
  • Promotional videos about Drupal or upcoming Drupal events
  • Videos that show the world how Drupal is making a difference

What doesn't fit

  • Promotional videos for your product or company. Taking credit for producing a video is fine, but the Drupal Channel isn't a good match for demo reels.
  • Sexually explicit content, harassment, racism, etc. If you wouldn't post it to Drupal.org, don't submit it to the Drupal Channel!

By submitting it, you're giving permission for it to be featured on Drupal.org and used in Drupal Association promotional materials. We recommend releasing your video under a permissive license like Creative Commons Attribution.

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So featuring almost anything from a DrupalCamp or DrupalCon would be good, right?

What are some examples of things that would be inappropriate? What about corporate placements? Even say Acquia or Pantheon videos?

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some more examples would be beneficial.

I would agree that any drupalcamp/con videos would seem to be fair game - however, I'm not sure that we want that either. Shouldn't those type of videos have their own channels?

What about videos from user group meetups? What about videos that demo modules? or showcase a site built with drupal?

Is this policy also going to cover the process for approval of videos into that channel? perhaps also some additional clarification of purpose/audience of the channel(s)?

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I'd love to have some of Webchick's videos about community prominently listed https://drupal.org/community

It does a great job highlighting how we should be working. It's a much better introduction than tonnes of text.

I think it's totally fine to have sub-channels, although @gdemet do you need this much detail for a policy? This sounds like much more about tactics for implementation.

There are already links to external video sources in the Drupal handbooks. You're looking though for actually embedding the html so that folks can easily play it.

Accessibility & internationalization should also be considered. With captions it is possible to make videos much more accessible to not only deaf people, but also people who don't speak English as a first language. As with the initial Drupal 7 video, having captions really helps the video be translated into multiple languages.

I don't think this should be a requirement prior to posting, but there should be some efforts to add captions where they are not already there.

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Can I update this to RTBC? The policy looks good.

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@lizzjoy - Makes sense to me!

Where will this policy live?

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there seems to be comments/requests regarding the policy that haven't been answered or addressed yet. If this is actually needing some review/consensus from the community, I wouldn't think this has it yet.

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Just reviewing the original post and noticed this:

We'll leave this issue open until February 15; at that time we'll incorporate the feedback that has been received by the community and work it into a revised draft for final review and approval by the Drupal Association.

From that perspective, we've passed the deadline for feedback. However there doesn't seem to be any incorporation of that feedback or revision of the draft.

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Status: Active » Reviewed & tested by the community

Hi!

Sorry it's taken so long to come back to this; the Content Working Group has been focusing on the Drupal.org user research RFQ and selection process for the past few months.

It doesn't sound like there's been any significant feedback or concerns about the policy itself, so much as questions about where and how it would be implemented. As described in the opening paragraph, this is for video content that lives on the Drupal Association's YouTube channel and may be featured on Drupal.org. If the Association wants to set up sub-channels to better organize content, that's up to them; this policy is really more about helping the community understand what kind of content is appropriate for the channel, which is managed and curated by the Drupal Association. This policy is also not intended to dictate who can and cannot create videos; it does not matter whether they come from DrupalCamps, DrupalCons, individuals, user groups, or private companies.

I agree that it's a good idea to encourage folks to provide captioning and internationalization options for their videos if possible, but I do not think that this should not be a requirement for all videos.

I've made a couple of minor revisions below, and marked this issue RTBC. I'll share this thread with the other members of the Content Working Group for final review and approval before passing it on to Lizz and the Association for implementation. If anyone else has any thoughts they'd like to share in this thread in the meantime, they're more than welcome to do so.
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Drupal Movies and Videos
If you've produced a video about the Drupal and want to share it with the world, let us know! The Drupal Association maintains a YouTube channel for videos about the Drupal project and community: yours can be featured there as well.

Content that's perfect for the Drupal channel

  • Walkthroughs and tutorials that explain Drupal's features
  • Documentary-style videos about the Drupal project, community, or events like DrupalCon
  • Promotional videos about Drupal or upcoming Drupal events
  • Videos that show the world how Drupal is making a difference

What doesn't fit

  • Promotional videos for your product or company. Taking credit for producing a video is fine, but the Drupal Channel isn't a good match for demo reels.
  • Sexually explicit content, harassment, racism, etc. If you wouldn't post it to Drupal.org, don't submit it to the Drupal Channel!

By submitting it, you're giving permission for the video to be featured on Drupal.org and used in Drupal Association promotional materials. We recommend releasing your video under a permissive license like Creative Commons Attribution. We also encourage you to provide captioning and internationalization options for your video when possible.

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Any updates?

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Title: For Community Review: Draft Policy for Drupal video channel » [Policy] For Community Review: Draft Policy for Drupal video channel

We've got a policy I think. Can we start adding videos now like this one #2173307: Add @webchick's videos on Getting Involved in the Drupal Community to /community

Here's a creative commons video produced by the Drupal Association:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvV38nJObIE

I don't think we need to host it, just embed it as per usual with Youtube.

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Issue tags: -drupal.org Content Working Group

 

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Reading this issue, I am still unclear what the next step is supposed to be. Given that 4 years are passed, is this task outdated?

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Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Closed (outdated)

I think it is outdated at this point; this is in reference to the Drupal Association's YouTube channel, which is maintained by staff. I'm going to go ahead and close it out.