Suggesting videos for the site

I want to put together a friendly page with deeper and deeper levels of details for people who want to suggest videos. The basic level will be what we have on the current form. If someone is a developer who knows how to put together machine readable information, then I'd also like helpful information for them.

Here is a sorry excuse for an explanation I emailed to someone once:

Here is a TLDR for python devs,

The quickest way to get things listed is to give me a big wad of json that I can review and submit to pyvideo.org. Pyvideo.org is a richard instance. Steve can talk to the api. For details look here. http://steve.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

Long stuff

Sometimes api friendly information isn't available, and I can handle this in declining graceful ways.

For an example of how I handled PyCon AU this year. https://github.com/willkg/pyvideo/issues/71 They were able to give me machine readable schedule data along with a cross index to youtube urls and ogv urls. I got them posted relatively quickly.

EuroPython 2014 took a little bit longer because I didn't have the cross index to youtube urls or ogv files. I wrote some code that made a best guess based on the youtube titles and the titles in the schedule. That required more manual fixing. This was less graceful than PyCon AU and took longer. If you are curious the nitty gritty details are here https://github.com/willkg/pyvideo/issues/68

Really nice-to-haves

Is someone transcribing talks this year? It would be neat if you get the transcriptions on amara, since we overlay amara on the videos we list.