On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 19:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > > > I'd argue, however, that "positive propaganda" is the right > > strategy here too: if RH (and much of the OS community) takes the > > principled stand of providing a free media stack, it ought to put a > > little bit of energy into promoting free media formats -- for > > instance, it would be nice to see a web site promoting the Ogg Vorbis > > streams that are out there, just as there are sites promoting the SBR > > heresy... > > > > http://www.tuner2.com/ > > > That does seem like a good idea to me. If you got other areas that we > can improve the the promotion of free media formats, do post to the > fedora-marketing list. I'll tell you what else would be very useful here. A site with simple, easy to follow instructions on how to get OGG formats playing on other platforms, and preferably in these platforms default players. One of the biggest sticking points I've had with getting people to even try OGG formats is getting their platform (usually OS X) to be able to support this format. Having a place where people could be pointed to that tells/shows them what to do and also has the links to the software that need (hopefully in small, easy to download bits) would make it a lot easier to get people to try (and use) vorbis. As and example, I've tried to get my government in Australia to use OGG formats for parliamentary needs, but the sysadmin just tells me it's too hard to install on some platforms and that they will stick with proprietary formats (and no government should use these for information distribution) because people just have these installed on their systems. (Strangely, comments from me that the formats they support aren't even supported by the manufacturers on my system seem to fall on deaf ears). Being able to say to these people, go to this page and follow the simple instructions and you'll be able to use OGG formats would make selling the idea of OGG much, much easier. Rodd -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
