I am from the UK and for this reason I think that I am thus more than qualified to to say that your English is of an excellent standard. Sometimes, your pronounciation is not quite correct, but this makes your podcast all the more charming! If everything were perfect, I think I would be far less inclined to listen!

I frankly think you are doing an excellent job!

Keep up the excellent work!

R

My English is a bit “German mad scientist” style. Got better in the last year I think - but I have not much real conversations in English. And I work without script, so I can’t look for pitfalls in advance. And Joseph spoke slow, perhaps too slow. It’s difficult to lecture without looking at your audience.

Why should the image have been tack sharp? The image was made with a P&S, handhold, on a walk with colleagues. I could have used a shot made with my D200 from a tripod - but the intention was to show what can be made out of a grab shot - much more common than a planned shot. I try not to show off my photography skills but to offer solutions for everyday life.

Unprofessional - what’s your idea of professional?

Let’s see what would be necessary to get this on a “professional level”.

- writing a rough draft
- writing a script
- recording the video
- recording the voice of a professional speaker
- sound editing
- editing the video
- writing copy for the website
- publishing video and blog

And perhaps even more.

This is simply impossible to do without funding and in spare time. I need about 4 to 5 hours for one show - sometimes more, seldom less.

I am getting some help but would be happy about more. What can you do for this project except writing with a fake email??

With all the imperfections this is more helpful than no video about GIMP. And I’ll keep it up until somebody more able steps in or I run out of ideas or time.

I thought it might be better, if you pay more attention to quality:

- Your picture has a nice composition, but its unsharp as hell (i know thats mentioned in the video).

- Youre mixing english sentences with german pronounciation of letters (”geop” or something in the video”)

- Your american mate is talking WAY too slow, i didnt even realize, that i was still watching the video

I must admit that I’m a big fan of the idea of Open Source and GIMP especially, but the reason why OS will always play a back role, is that its presented in a bad way.

Just wanted you to know..

Just to get the record straight - this is unprofessional because we are no professionals. And never claimed to be.

I am a professional teacher - but for kids and only trained in “live performance”. This is a spare time project. If someone is willing to pay enough money, I’ll think about switching jobs…..

result: absolutely unprofessional

i mean, you sound like geeks, but without the intellectual power of geeks.

take this as constuctive critic and work on yourselfs…

Nice tutorial once again, thanks to Joseph too

And, as Andrew says, nice ‘make’ stuff on the show, seems like despite of the ease of using apt, we will never forget about configure-ing/make-ing/make install-ing linux stuff.