Produce Video Tutorials/Webinars to introduce Julia, it's packages and it's capabilities

[Paulo Roberto de Oliveira Castro]

The Julia team maintains a YouTube channel, and it's very good to introduce users to the Julia language. But we still have a low number of videos there. After some version of Julia (v0.5?v1.0?) we should start to produce some videos, with a tutorial series (for the new ones) and with seminars about Julia advanced features/packages. MATLAB does this very well, and after some time, we should start focusing on things like this (along with better documentation pages/messages), because it attracts more users and developers to the language. Maybe something focusing on Julia Dev would be useful also.

What do you think? Is it feasible? After what version we should start doing it? I think that doing it before v1.0 is better, because we attract more points-of-view in a time when we still can break some backward compatibility.

[John Myles White]

This sounds like a totally reasonable approach, but, as always, I think the main questions are:

(1) Who is going to provide the labor to do this?
(2) Is that labor better spent on this project rather than, say, implementing static compilation?

The nice thing about those questions is that you can avoid answering (2) if the answer to (1) is, “I will provide the labor to do this.”

— John