On Fri 9 April 2010 1:23:23 pm Nicholas Ozorak wrote: > 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. Hey Nick! Thanks for taking this on, it's great to see all of you getting involved! I enjoy doing videos when I have something to actually say, as rare as that is ;) i enjoy editing videos using kdenlive, regardless of whether I am in them or not, though. :) > 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. All awesome ideas! YouTube is something that, whether we want to or not, simply cannot ignore :/ This isn't something that I brought up in the original discussion in IRC I had with Justin O'brien about using blip.tv to host videos, but there is something to be said that blip.tv could be used as a central distribution hub... here it is lazily spliced together by /me http://www.flickr.com/photos/rrix/4506860088/sizes/l/ By leveraging this we could take just a little bit of a load off of the account managers and lessen the mauled-by-raptors/hit-by-bus factor involved with having a single person manage shared accounts. The Freedom aspect is definitely something that we want to take thought of though, and I think that dual-hosting on archive.org and blip.tv (and all the places it distributes to) is a Very Good Thing! Thanks for taking this one, Nick and everyone else involved! > 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. Yes, +1! Once we have this infrastructure laid out, these would be some awesome videos to help introduce people to Fedora. We may even need someone with previous experience in webcasting *hinthint* ;) > Thanks for reading, and good luck with preparing for the big release! > > Nick Ryan -- Ryan Rix == http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://rix.si/ ==
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