Re: Fedora promoting videos

Hope you are doing good now Chris. Finding How-To videos and presentation shouldn't be a problem, but we should be more focusing on how do we get the promo videos made for Fedora. Coming with a creative concept, story board, script, finding the right tools and expertise to make it happen!! :) 2008/8/12 Christos Bacharakis <cmpahar(a)gmail.com&gt; > > 2008/8/10 Naresh KN <nareshlx(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; > > I agree. I foresee this to be a great way to promote Fedora to the mass. >> Lets give a heads up to this initiative. How do we kick start? Any >> thoughts?? >> >> -Naresh >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora(a)nicubunu.ro&gt; >>> wrote: >>> > I think you understand that Fedora being a community distro such a >>> video >>> > should come from the community, namely from you, me and others like >>> us.... >>> > So if you want such a video, start working to make it happen: maybe >>> write a >>> > script, maybe shoot some footage with your camera, maybe do some >>> editing >>> > with video software... >>> >>> I think a 'truth happens' for Fedora coming out of the Red Hat side of >>> the fence would not be a bad thing as long as its done right. There >>> are video production experts over there, and they do have mad skillz. >>> As long as we are willing to accept that to make a video like that we >>> aren't going to be dog-fooding our our video tools. If this is >>> something 'we' want I'm sure there are ways of approaching the video >>> gurus inside the Red Hat fence line. >>> >>> If they were going to take on such a task at the behest of our >>> community marketing group, I would ideally like to see some sort of >>> partnership evolve such that community produced material was >>> incorporated but gave the video experts a lot of creative control on >>> how to use the material...including choice of digital tools to use. >>> But that's just me talking. >>> >>> And I should clarify since I know people lurk on this list, I have >>> said in the past that I don't want the Red Hat side of the fence >>> leading an effort to get a Fedora community video production process >>> up and running. I've said that primarily because I am afraid that the >>> quality of the work they typically do is orders of magnitude above >>> what we can do with in-distro tools and having them jump in early and >>> gifting us with very nice, well produced videos for us to use would >>> taint the discussion concerning our own toolset. Banging our >>> collective heads on creating screencasts and interviews using the >>> in-distro tools is an important part of a community push to move this >>> toolspace forward and I didn't want to see that short-circuited by >>> setting the bar on video quality for the community too high with a set >>> of initial video drop. But we have a process in place now, and it >>> could be time to think about how we deal with the need for high >>> production quality videos meant for re-use as marketing pieces that we >>> know we don't have the toolset to build in-distro...yet. >>> >>> -jef >>> >>> -- >>> Fedora-marketing-list mailing list >>> Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list >>> >> >> >> -- >> Fedora-marketing-list mailing list >> Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list >> > > Sorry for being late to answer, I had some health problems. I suggest to > try finding as many videos about fedora (promoting videos, presentation > videos, how-to videos) and post them at the wiki under the following address > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/videos . Although I don't know if we > have to host them in fedoraproject or we can simply post the link (for > example from youtube) to the wiki. Waiting for feedback. > > -- > Christos Bacharakis > cmpahar(a)fedoraproject.org > http://cmpahar.wordpress.com > GPG Key: CCFA0AEB > > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list