Tonight, two developers from Riga,
Andrei Adamovich and
Eduard Sizov, published
on GitHub their open source project of an aggregator with video footage for
DevTube developers. The site has already implemented a filter system for tags, such as Mobile, JavaScript, Testing and others, as well as by speakers and video languages. The project is declared as non-commercial: there is nothing superfluous on the site, only navigation, preview to video and such key information as tags, duration, download date, number of views and likes. Obviously, the resource will be useful to those who need speeches and videos in specific languages or areas of development.
Now English-language content prevails on the resource, which is not surprising. Also, the developers have announced the start of collective work on the content of this non-commercial resource: you can apply for adding or deleting videos from DevTube via the pull-request to
GitHub , as reported in
README.md . Here's how the idea of creating such a resource was commented by one of the developers, Andrei
codingandrey Adamovich:
The idea arose because of the need to look for high-quality technical videos and select speakers for our conference (DevTernity), well, in order to stay up-to-date and follow popular stuff from various popular channels. There are similar resources, but they are either rarely updated, or there is a lack of variety in topics.
The whole development from the stage of the idea to the release to the public took about three months. During this time, Andrei and Edward not only prepared the site itself, but also collected an impressive amount of video materials, sorted them by tags and, where possible, by speakers.
All materials were already publicly available and posted on YouTube. DevTube, according to Andrew himself, acts as an aggregator of suitable professional content for developers. There are also no legal conflicts and a sudden closure of the resource: a typical fair use model is used, and the materials themselves are not taken out of YouTube:
All videos that we have been indexed on YouTube are marked as embeddable i.e. The author of the content himself allows to use and share these videos through YouTube. There should be no conflicts here. DevTube performs the role of an aggregator and a convenient search through pre-selected channels. But the video is shown through the YouTube player itself.
The most troubling question for the community is the possible monetization of the project. Andrew says that somehow earn on DevTube is not planned. The main goal is to form a community around the project, which will help to fill the site and select new high-quality videos. From long-term goals - there are several ideas of related products, but work on them will be carried out on a residual basis, if there is enough time and effort.
Commercial and advertising video developers (target audience) will not watch anyway. Therefore, we focused on high-quality free content that is interesting to us as developers. Plus, our main goal is to develop a community that will help us keep the list of channels up-to-date, as well as supplement the information on video via GitHub.
An action plan in case of high popularity in the future also already exists:
Now the volume is not very large and we moderate the content ourselves. When the volume increases, we will write the autobot for the trusted merdzhey.
You can get acquainted with the project and take part in its further fate on
GitHub . We also
invited Andrew to Habr so that he could answer personally all the questions of interest.