On 1/25/21, 12:44 PM, Melissa Mendonça <melissawm@gmail.com> wrote:

The NumPy Documentation Team has been discussing video content as part of our outreach and documentation efforts, in part inspired by the excellent Spyder IDE channel [1]. At our last meeting, we realized there is already a good amount of content about NumPy on YouTube (a few examples [2, 3, 4]). We thought about creating a YouTube account for NumPy and listing those videos in a playlist, initially. Eventually, we can also add our own videos about how to contribute - we're still brainstorming on those.

I'm writing to the mailing list to ask the community for input on creating this as an official channel for NumPy. If you have any thoughts or questions regarding this, please let us know.

Cheers,

Melissa

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAOyvaOj7dMnavvGUkz9Djg [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTJD_FDVjU [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHJqOE5j6xE [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB7BZMhfPgk

I like the idea of there being such a channel very much! However, whether it's formally a project of NumPy or just run by community members makes a difference.  If it's formally part of the project, you'd expect those to be 100% current and the best content on the topic, or at least highly competitive with the best.  They should get updates with each significant release. For example, I think it's safe to say that nobody else has produced a reference manual that competes with the reference pages.  They're kept up to date and are pretty readable. It's harder to spot-edit video, though, to keep up with changes.  Unless you have a lot of volunteers and are ready to coordinate them all, a video project might best be done as a side venture or with a beta label until it demonstrates that it can keep its content fresh.  An indexing effort for existing, high-quality video might be more valuable in the short term than shooting all-new video, too. --jh--