On 03/27/2010 02:13 PM, Mel Chua wrote:
> So this is currently where we stand. thoughts?
The question in my mind is how, while still starting from our shared
foundation of Freedom, we can make these videos as accessible and
consumable by others as possible. In particular, we hope many of these
videos will reach people who *aren't* already using Fedora and Free
Software, so that they will *start* using Fedora and Free Software - how
do we make this experience as easy and pleasant as possible for them as
possible? They probably won't care about ogg/html5... they're just going
to want to watch the video. (This is similar to the discussion we had
earlier about using twitter alongside identi.ca - we need to make sure
that we're not just preaching to the choir.)
If what we want is to reach as many people as possible we have to go
where the users are, even this means non-free channels. Have the master,
canonical, source in Free formats delivered by standard code (like
archive.org) but put copies everywhere, YouTube and such.
I'm hoping this question is something that students, as folks new
to
Fedora and probably new to open source, but veterans of social media,
will be able to help us with.
I am not a veteran but also not a total newbie and my experience is
painful... right now I am preparing a clip (not directly Fedora related
but about Document Freedom Day): it was edited in Fedora and due to the
software (from rpmfusion) being buggy I had to save as .mp4 (h264) and
try to convert later to Theora. In this particular case the mp4 has
235MB and by converting to ogv the file size *increased* to 627MB (it
does not happen usually, probably because it was filmed outdoors).
Finding a hosting solution for the Free version is going to be
troublesome for me.
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