As long as the website offers good connectivity worldwide should be ok. Youtube should be nice since it has akamai behind also. The importance of prime channels of distribution should be a concern, and Youtube provides the necessary points for it, either from the audience point of view or distribution. +1. nm On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 16:23 -0400, 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. > > 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 -- Nelson Marques PGP Fingerprint: 53E1 731B 85A4 A098 8382 8CFF 1AC7 AF01 7717 8063 -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
