 Creating a KDE video community. This is a talk that I already gave at Academy. I am doing it again to have better audio and video. And if you're wondering why should I care about a better audio and video, well, we'll see it in the talk itself. So first of all, you might ask, why are you here talking about this? So what are your competencies? So let me say that I do have a channel which is this one you're actually using to watch my content. The link is this one. If you forgot how to press the big button with my name under the video down there. And if you do ask why are you doing this? Well, I think the main reason is that it helps you reach a bigger audience. It does that by A, actually proposing actively your content to people that maybe otherwise would have not found you. Say that one person just pops up YouTube one day and search for KDE, your videos pop up and they can discover about you. It's not that simple when you're doing blog posts which cannot be recommended if not through social media and similar. So it helps you grow a community. And also for the fact that people are, it's easier to watch videos rather than write technical blog posts. People don't want blog posts. They want something to enjoy maybe when they're having dinner or stuff. I always watch YouTube when I'm having dinner. So a lighter content that can reach more users. That was my end goal. What's next? Why YouTube? So I know that YouTube isn't open source and there are some good alternatives. As an example, there's PeerTube which is actually used by the main KDE official account and that's really good. However, if your goal is to reach a bigger audience all PeerTube is not going to do it because nobody yet uses PeerTube. Maybe that will change in the future hopefully but right now most of the population has the YouTube app installed and that's what you should use. Also it gives you a lot of helpful tools and analytics to understand what of your content is working and what's not. So super nice. Next up is filmmaking. This is not very important but I just stated I use Audacity to record audio with my microphone and I use simple screen recorder but OBS is great too. They're both open source. Simple screen recorder doesn't work on Wayland but it's not very important. You can choose whatever you'd like. The second very important point is to get a decent microphone because that's really a must. I actually contacted some YouTubers and they told me focus on one thing and that is audio quality. So that's what I did. Trying maybe also to do a bit of editing with Audacity and if you want to do a good video that the people will want to watch I think that audio is the first thing you should be looking for. The second thing is to try to edit out empty moments to make it interesting. If it feels like a recorded live stream just upload it as is, it won't really work. Some people will watch it, some people won't and even if you do like the most interesting stuff ever many people will just go out of the video halfway. You can see that in analytics but if you manage to reach I don't know 34, 50% of people actually going through all the video that's a great result. Next is to maybe do a bit of video editing also for the music, the zoom into what you're actually using in the UI and stuff that's useful and it's also really good to have put a screen cap of your face. This one, mine and your screen while you're using it. In this case, my presentation which I like to crop because it has some black bars to the left and right. Now how I did create the community that I currently have. So the first, actually I thought I deleted this slide sorry about that, let's skip to the next one. So first step is to actually talk about something really specific that already has a community behind it. In my case it was KDE theming. I started talking about that. I started using the forums regarding KDE theming such as Reddit or Unixpor and I was advertising my video star. So I kind of stole the community from there to mine which is really useful. It's the best way to get started. And the second step is to talk about important stuff in your niche of interest. In my case again, KDE. As an example, the KDE releases make a lot of views because lots of people are interested in them and they Google for like Plasma 5.23 to see what's new and your video will pop up which is very useful to again, discover new people and rather make people discover you. The third one is to try to communicate to other niches like GNOME. One of the first videos that I've done was trying out GNOME. And I'm really happy about that one because it brought in a lot of positive comments seeing that I did the right thing. And even though I did criticize some of the aspect of GNOME I also liked many others and I thought it was a pretty balanced review. So topics of course you decide depends on your channel. In my case I did like how to set up developer environments, how to contribute, how to build apps, how to write a theme and so on. These are things that maybe to us developer are obvious but I remember when I first started and actually managing to build my own app was painful. Like I always got compile errors, I was missing packages, it was not simple at all. So having actually someone guide you through the steps really useful. Then the coding sections, they're nice. People actually watch them which surprised me because they're like one hour, two hour long. Now I'm trying to edit them out to be a bit shorter but it still works as a content. The last one got like more than 1,000 views so I was really happy. And regarding the does it work? I think so, like if I watch my statistics they've been going up for pretty much forever. Last month of course is not complete data. This screenshot is a bit old and I also took a break but it's working. I'm seeing the more effort I put in the more views I get. So I'm really happy about it. And of course I got many subscribers. I think my initial goal was to make 100 and I did that in a couple of weeks. And it really has been awesome because I did not expect this much of a community engaging process. I get many plenty of comments every video and that's what I'm most looking forward to. So I'm really happy about this one particularly. Regarding money, I try to do a bit of donation stuff and it is feasible to get something out of it. It's not a paycheck but for a student that's already something. Forget about the month of June which is one off next month is going to be down again and the money actually helped me to take a better camera, the stand. So I'm trying to spend it to step up the quality of the video channel. And what may mean takeaway here is that LibrePay and people are so annoying to use because you can't actually predict whether you will also get the money next month. Whereas Patreon, if you look at it it's constant through time, it gets slowly bigger and you know that next month you're roughly going to get that amount of money. People, LibrePay only worked on like April and that was it. Whereas people sometimes get little money, sometimes a lot and then now in July I will probably get not much if any. So Patreon is the most used platform here and for a good reason. It gives you the stability of being able to say I know that next month I will get some money that I will be able to spend on these and these areas. Regarding YouTube monetization it's a bit hard to reach but you can do it. I expect now to do 50 to 60 year monthly. Now that I've been working with advertisement for like a couple of weeks I expect that to be a bit less maybe 40 to 50 but it's still decent. It should double what I was doing before. Right now I have 66 cents so I'm rich. I don't know what to say here. And that's it, it was really a short talk but don't forget to subscribe, like the video and comment, ring the bell and stuff like that. There was again another link to my channel because that was an academy presentation and the academy presentation was not on YouTube meaning that I actually needed to make people move to that platform and subscribe but you're already on YouTube so you don't get any excuse. 10 minutes is not enough that was the time that I had for the talk so if you have a specific question this also comes for you. If you need more details, statistics, blah, blah, blah just ask me, I actually have much more than what I presented. If you want to say like what's the average RPM for a YouTuber, how much do you make? I don't know about that but I can tell you what's working so far for me. So thank you for watching this video, don't forget to subscribe, blah, blah, blah, blah.