Floss Manuals and Open Source Video Editing Tools

David Saski from Global Voices and who is running the Rising Voices project will also be at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh next week. He's over in Thailand now, but was glad to see he had Internet access - looks like free wifi too.  I found out that thanks to Adam Hyde of FlossManuals.net, he will be distributing free printed guides to open-source software and he will also be giving out digital cameras to up-and-coming Cambodian photobloggers.

I popped over to flossmanuals - and what a terrific resource.  I'm very impressed.  The description:

FLOSS Manuals provides quality free manuals about free software. There are a lot of people that know a lot about software. There are also a lot of people that need to know about software. FLOSS Manuals aims to connect the two by making writing and reading about software easy.

You'll find links to an array of manuals for often used open source programs like Audacity (there was even a link to a print version you can purchase via LuLu if you like paper and I do).  The manuals are organized by "read,"  "write," and "remix" which I just love.     I also found a manual for Kino, a video editing program that runs on Linux.    It reminded of the ngo in a box collection of open source video editing tools that I read about on the NTEN blog.

Jay Dedman recently asked about linux video editing tools on the Rising Voices list:

Does anyone here use Linux to edit video? (and speak spanish?) http://estudiolivre.org/lives.   At havemoneywillvlog.com, we are considering giving support to this software project to provide free video editing software to videobloggers in other countries. The developer livers in Brazil. M concern is that not enough people use linux...and edit video with it. Philosophically I support open source and free software, but I wonder if there is a userbase.

The only person I recall doing video work on Open Source is James Davis who did this screencast with Ubuntu and wrote a post about it.

I saw a post about nonprofits and video use here, but not much mention of open source tools.  Anyone else out there using Open Source video editing tools? 

Comments

[Anne Gentle]

I love Floss Manuals, too, as a technical writer, so it's good for readers and writers alike. I've been working on a user guide for the One Laptop Per Child XO computer there - it's available at http://en.flossmanuals.net/OLPC_simple/Introduction.

We're still working on a printed version, but you can get a PDF and print it for yourself in the meantime.

I know I'm not answering your original question, but I had to gush a little bit about Floss Manuals since I'm a fan. :)