Ubuntu

Synchronize the English subtitles for a snapcraft videos

Snapcraft is a delightful packaging tool. With it you can make free software projects easy to install and update in many Linux distributions. More info: https://snapcraft.io/

The snapcraft team publishes short video guides in https://www.youtube.com/snapcraftio. The task consists on adding the English subtitles to the video using the youtube subtitle editor.

For this task, you need to have Ubuntu installed: https://bit.ly/ugciubuntu For this task, you need to know snapcraft: https://bit.ly/ugcisnapcraft

Steps:

  • Join the #ubuntu-google IRC chatroom: https://bit.ly/ugcichat
  • Say hi to elopio, kyrofa, sergiusens and popey.
  • Select a short video without English subtitles from https://bit.ly/ugcisvideos Do not select the longer office hours videos.
  • Watch and follow the video instructions.
  • Ask popey for the script of the video in English.
  • On the youtube video player, click the settings button > subtitles > add subtitles.
  • Synchronize the English script with the video.

Here is more information about youtube subtitles: https://bit.ly/ugciyoutubesubs

Task tags

  • snapcraft
  • video
  • subtitles
  • ubuntu

Students who completed this task

P S

Task type

  • chrome_reader_mode Documentation / Training
  • assessment Outreach / Research

Level

Beginner
close

2017