On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Jonathan Roberts <jonrob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've attached the announcement I've drafted for my blog below. > Opinions are welcome :) I'd also like to push this to f-announce-list > too, if possible. In a short while too, I was going to create a video > to stick in the channel saying welcome - though it won't be any thing > exciting, just my ugly mug recorded via my webcam, any brighter ideas > are welcome! > > Best, > > Jon > > --------------------- > > What is it? > > A way for our community to easily share video and audio related to > Fedora with each other - the mechanism we've chosen to do this is an > RSS feed that also exists as a channel in Miro. > > How do I watch? > > You can install Miro and subscribe to the Fedora TV channel. You can > also add the RSS feed to any feed reader or suitable podcatching > client. I'm personally using Banshee for my podcast needs these days > as it has great video support and if you're a Gnome user is really > nice to use :) > > The feed URL is http://jonrob.fedorapeople.org/fedora-tv.xml > > Can I submit my own videos? > > Yes! We want this to be a community channel where any Fedora community > members can submit their content. So if you've created a screen cast > tutorial, an interview, a podcast, a promo video or anything else > Fedora related we want you to submit it to us. The only conditions for > it's inclusion in the feed is that it's: > > 1. on topic > 2. in an open format such as OGG Theora/Vorbis > 3. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike license Is 'signed the CLA' assumed? > > To let us know about your video head over to our Trac instance where > you can login with your FAS account details and file a new ticket for > each video you'd like to include. This way we can review your > submission to make sure the above conditions are all met. If we decide > that a video isn't suitable, we'll let you know in the ticket so all > conversations of this manner are open and everyone can have their > voices heard :) > > At the moment you need to find somewhere to keep your video file as we > don't have dedicated hosting. For the time being, you might want to > try using your Fedora People space. > > What still needs doing? > > A better way for us to update the feed. At the minute I maintain the > feed, and as you can imagine this is not entirely ideal. We'd like to > fix this and find an automatic way for this to happen, but we can > tackle that in the future. > > A better place for feed videos to be stored. > > I'd also really like to have a place to tie all of our marketing > activities together, and I hope we'll have this in the not too distant > future. > > What do I plan to do for the channel? > > My usual series of developer interviews. Yeah, I'm original, I know... > I challenge everyone else in the community to come up with something > better! See my comment above, otherwise it sounds great. JonRob, you rock man. I'll be working on some new videos in the near future. Watch for gnome-do, ssh keys and more. Cheers, Clint -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
