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Hi devs,

we're making some medium-term plans to produce automated screencasts that explain how to download, verify, and run Tor Browser on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, localized to at least half a dozen languages.

The focus here is really on *automated*. Whenever there's a new Tor Browser version, we'd like to minimize manual steps for creating new screencasts to the absolute minimum.

Here's our plan, and we'd appreciate your feedback on this:

1. Set up three systems (Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux) either as virtual machines, using VirtualBox or VMware Fusion, or on a dedicated triple-boot Mac Mini.

2. Install Sikuli (http://www.sikuli.org/; thanks for Lunar for the suggestion!) either directly on these machines or on the virtual machine host or on a separate host in the same network.

3. Write a Sikuli script for each operating system and language, probably re-using large parts, to make all the necessary steps to download, verify, and run Tor Browser. This script may include steps for preparing the system by changing its language and for cleaning up afterwards. Ideally, this script can easily be maintained whenever Tor Browser changes.

4. Record audio snippets in the various language that explain the steps that will later be performed in the screencast. Either include these as part of the Sikuli script, or put them together separately and add them to the recording later.

5. Start a screen recorder and run the Sikuli script for all three systems and all supported languages.

6. Post-process the recording by cutting the video, attaching the audio, and possibly adding text slides at beginning and end; hopefully using scripts.

Again, the goal is to keep the overhead for recording a new set of screencasts as low as possible. If it takes days to do this, nobody will do it, and we'll soon have outdated videos.

What do you think about this plan? And do you have specific suggestions for the single steps?

Thanks!

Cheers, Karsten and Sherief