About ShowMeDo
What is ShowMeDo?
Kyran observed that learning-by-watching was a very powerful technique and one that the Internet hadn't exploited (back in 2005). Ian and Kyran teamed up to create a site where knowledgeable people could share their knowledge via video and things have kept on growing since then.
Why screencast tutorials?
Making tutorials using Screencasting is fantastically easy - you can produce a 5 minute tutorial video in just 5 minutes. Often you can do it in one take without any need to edit the result.
Real-world videos on the other hand tend to require several people and are time and effort intensive. In short - screencasting is easier.
With screencasting we can teach people about our hard-won skills in our environment which is dedicated to this task.
History:
- late 2005 - Idea born out of an earlier idea called BookAnExpert
- 2006 - ShowMeDo grew, we started to work with members of Python.org
- 2007 - ShowMeDo becomes funded and Ian works full-time on growing the site
Your hosts:
Ian Ozsvald
Ian (email remove NOSPAM) is a past student of Sussex University and has been applying his knowledge of Artificial Intelligence to real-world industrial problems for the last 9 years.
Currently he works mostly-full-time here on ShowMeDo and can frequently be found in the ShowMeDo Group. Ian has authored many tutorial videos, often creating Python Tutorials.
He also works part-time on physics and A.I. problem at Panalytical at the Sussex Innovation Centre. He also has a personal blog where he talks about life and artificial-intelligence on occasion.
Kyran Dale
Kyran (email remove NOSPAM) is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, spending much of his time evolving novel robot controllers. He has authored a set of wxPython Tutorials.
He was also until quite recently probably the best bumble-bee trainer on the planet.
ShowMeDo Services - our second arm:
As of August 2007 we have a second side to our business - ShowMeDo Services provides screencast hosting and creation to private companies.
PayPal Donations
If you support what we're doing then you may want to donate to help support our running costs. Please use this PayPal link to send us a useful donation ($20 or more). Also, if you don't want to setup a PayPal recurring subscription but you do want to get access to the Club then first contact us (ian AT showmedo DOT com) and use this link to send the agreed money.
Acknowledgements:
Without the following, ShowMeDo wouldn't be what it is. We'd like to say thanks to the following:
- Kevin Dangoor for the TurboGears Python web framework
- Remi at WebFaction - our excellent host
- The authors of the CamStudio Windows screencasting software and the great Lossless Codec
- Stephan Deibel and team for the Wing IDE Professional development environment
