Dear Anyone with an interest in video distribution, My name is Nick Ozorak, and I am one of the students from Allegheny College who has just come in to help with the Fedora Project. My particular field of expertise is in video creation and distribution, as I already have my own video-web series. I'm one of five students who's looking into the issue of how videos about Fedora can be distributed online. I saw in the archives that there was recently a discussion about Fedora and where videos showcasing the project should be hosted. Internet Archive was mentioned, as well as Dailymotion. Based off of my experience, both of these websites are decent places to host video, but they don't receive as much traffic as the granddaddy of them all - YouTube. As a consumer, when I am looking for videos regarding technological developments, YouTube is where I go first. I am aware that some people are uncomfortable with relying on YouTube and Flash, but there may be a solution to satisfy everyone. One idea that I have come up with is: * Set up official Fedora Project accounts on websites like Internet Archive and Dailymotion. * Create videos on these accounts to establish them as being officially part of the Fedora Project (welcome videos, tutorials, features of Fedora, etc). * Designate people to be official Fedora Project Video Account Managers. * Allow other video creators and content developers to showcase their Fedora-related work on the official channel(s) by sending their video to the Account Master(s) for consideration. If accepted, these videos would be added to the official channel. * Open a YouTube account, and ask people if they are comfortable with having their work(s) displayed on YouTube and/or other Flash-based websites. I'd be more than happy to discuss this idea in an IRC chat with those who are interested. I would also be curious to find out what results previous discussions about this issue have yielded and get a sense of what people's opinions are. I will also add that I had never heard of Fedora before one of my professors started discussing it in class. Once Mel Chua came to speak with our class and explain how this open-source community worked, I began to understand. Having videos that explain the goals of the Fedora Project to those who have heard little to nothing about the project would be extremely beneficial with regards to outreach. Thanks for reading, and good luck with preparing for the big release! Nick -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
