[Video at Xiph] Digital Media Primer for Geeks - Spanish Translation

[Monty Montgomery]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Tom Kent <lists at teeks99.com> wrote:
> Hi there, I'm currently putting together a course "Introduction to
> Multimedia" covering Photos, Graphics, Audio, Video and Web Pages, and
> I wanted to say thank you for the great video you did.  It was a great
> help in introducing the fundamentals behind audio and video!

Thank you for the kind words!

> Anyway, I'm actually teaching the course in Spanish (I'm a volunteer
> living in Bolivia), so I put together the Spanish subtitles for the
> video (see attached) that you could add to your website.

Awesome.  I'll get them up on the site tomorrow (monday).

> While I'm writing, I wanted to put in a shameless plug for the course
> content I'm creating.  It's all CC-BY-SA and available at:

Shameless plug on-topic and welcome.

> http://mediaintro.teeks99.com/MultimediaClass.html, or you can grab it
> from github: https://github.com/teeks99/multimedia-intro. Its not
> complete yet (I'm still writing the video section, haven't started the
> web-pages section), and doesn't have much polish (just text, images
> and links), but that's all stuff left to work on.
>
> Stuff coming up is: obviously finishing the text for the Video/Web
> sections, moving the HTML into a docbook or other similar format,
> which HTML can be generated from, using gettext for the translation
> (currently only spanish), and putting it into a moodle's format so it
> can be used for classes that run moodle.
>
> If this interests anyone, or if you have comments/suggestions, I'd be
> happy to talk more :-)

I'll be having a look at that tomorrow as well.  Today--- it's a
beautiful weekend day and the kids are clamouring for the playground.

Cheers!
Monty