[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Multimedia contest

[Alex]

Hey people,

I had some time to think during my vacation, and here's the idea I got:

Have Fedora enthusiasts around the world produce short videos in media
formats that Fedora supports (including Flash, maybe) and submit them
to a panel of judges and we will post the best ones on
fedora.redhat.com and on wiki, and give the winner a set of schwag (a
t-shirt or two, and whatever new schwag we will have).

If you feel like it is worth pursuing, I will go ahead and draft copy
for the contest and we can call the contest to go with the new
release, or to go with FUDCon in Boston, or something else.

Let me know what you think,
a

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[Thomas Chung]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:05:43 -0500, Alex Maier wrote
>  Hey people,
>  
>  I had some time to think during my vacation, and here's the idea I got:
>  
>  Have Fedora enthusiasts around the world produce short videos in media
>  formats that Fedora supports (including Flash, maybe) and submit them
>  to a panel of judges and we will post the best ones on
>  fedora.redhat.com and on wiki, and give the winner a set of schwag (a
>  t-shirt or two, and whatever new schwag we will have).
>  
>  If you feel like it is worth pursuing, I will go ahead and draft copy
>  for the contest and we can call the contest to go with the new
>  release, or to go with FUDCon in Boston, or something else.
>  
>  Let me know what you think,
>  a
>   
Sounds interesting. :)  

It's like Firefox Flicks -  http://www.firefoxflicks.com/adcontest/

Do you have any recommended size or length of the video clips?

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[Alex]

I would say we limit file size -- this way we effectively limit time
without saying so :)

And yes, this is kinda inspired by firefox flicks, but not quite--I do
not see this as a Fedora ad contest, but film contest in which only
films can participate which Fedora can play out of the box.

All videos will have to be released under some type of open license,
and I would recommend Creative Commons.

We can give them a couple of abstract topics to film about, but I
would not stick to it too much. What I see this program achieving
would be

1. to assert that YES, Fedora supports enough media formats,
2. and of course to get creative people more involved,
3. and to get a few good videos to spice up fedoraproject.org

That's the plan--we can publicize the call for submissions on
fedoranews.org as well :)

a

On 2/13/06, Thomas Chung <tchung(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:05:43 -0500, Alex Maier wrote
>  > Hey people,
>  >
>  > I had some time to think during my vacation, and here's the idea I got:
>  >
>  > Have Fedora enthusiasts around the world produce short videos in media
>  > formats that Fedora supports (including Flash, maybe) and submit them
>  > to a panel of judges and we will post the best ones on
>  > fedora.redhat.com and on wiki, and give the winner a set of schwag (a
>  > t-shirt or two, and whatever new schwag we will have).
>  >
>  > If you feel like it is worth pursuing, I will go ahead and draft copy
>  > for the contest and we can call the contest to go with the new
>  > release, or to go with FUDCon in Boston, or something else.
>  >
>  > Let me know what you think,
>  > a
>  >
>
>  Sounds interesting. :)
>
>  It's like Firefox Flicks -  http://www.firefoxflicks.com/adcontest/
>
>  Do you have any recommended size or length of the video clips?
>
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[Thomas Chung]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:27:48 -0500, Alex Maier wrote
>  I would say we limit file size -- this way we effectively limit time
>  without saying so :)
>   
As for size, let's limit to 10 MB. Somewhat similar to note you can find here:

http://www.firefoxflicks.com/adcontest/submit.php

Any other suggestion?

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[Alex]

On 2/13/06, Thomas Chung <tchung(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  As for size, let's limit to 10 MB. Somewhat similar to note you
> can find here:
>
>  http://www.firefoxflicks.com/adcontest/submit.php
>
>  Any other suggestion? 
Seems reasonable to me.

If noone is really opposed, let's start thinking about the
infrastructure for this. Shall we have them email the files to me? Or
shall we have an FTP site where they can upload their stuff to? Or
some other configuration?

/me is not techie enough to be sure which solution will be best.

[Thomas Chung]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:12:34 -0500, Alex Maier wrote
>  On 2/13/06, Thomas Chung <tchung(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  > As for size, let's limit to 10 MB. Somewhat similar to note you can find here:
>  >
>  > http://www.firefoxflicks.com/adcontest/submit.php
>  >
>  > Any other suggestion?
>  
>  Seems reasonable to me.
>  
>  If noone is really opposed, let's start thinking about the
>  infrastructure for this. Shall we have them email the files to me? Or
>  shall we have an FTP site where they can upload their stuff to? Or
>  some other configuration?
>  
>  /me is not techie enough to be sure which solution will be best.
>   
I'd say let's create a Wiki page and let them upload it from there.

Alex, do you want me to create an initial Wiki page for it?

You can populate the content as we go along.

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[Alex]

Thank you Thomas, but it seems to me we should wait a bit with the
wiki. Let's decide on what will be the trigger event for the contest
first--wiki is visible to the whole world, and I would like to
announce the contest when we are DONE done :)

Tomorrow morning I am meeting with a designer who helps us create
uniform elements of design for all Fedora-affiliated pages, which when
they're finished will be distributed to all sites like fp.o f.r.c and
regional pages, or regional news pages. I would like to see where that
leads and how fast we can get this wrapped up, so that we might
relaunch the look-and feel first, and launch the contest later.

Just a brain-dump.
a

On 2/13/06, Thomas Chung <tchung(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:12:34 -0500, Alex Maier wrote
>  > On 2/13/06, Thomas Chung <tchung(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  > > As for size, let's limit to 10 MB. Somewhat similar to note you can find
> here:
>  > >
>  > > http://www.firefoxflicks.com/adcontest/submit.php
>  > >
>  > > Any other suggestion?
>  >
>  > Seems reasonable to me.
>  >
>  > If noone is really opposed, let's start thinking about the
>  > infrastructure for this. Shall we have them email the files to me? Or
>  > shall we have an FTP site where they can upload their stuff to? Or
>  > some other configuration?
>  >
>  > /me is not techie enough to be sure which solution will be best.
>  >
>
>  I'd say let's create a Wiki page and let them upload it from there.
>
>  Alex, do you want me to create an initial Wiki page for it?
>
>  You can populate the content as we go along.
>
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[Alex]

Oh yes, and we also need to decide on the panel of judges and criteria
for the winner selection :)

On 2/13/06, Alex Maier <lxmaier(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Thank you Thomas, but it seems to me we should wait a bit with the
>  wiki. Let's decide on what will be the trigger event for the contest
>  first--wiki is visible to the whole world, and I would like to
>  announce the contest when we are DONE done :)
>
>  Tomorrow morning I am meeting with a designer who helps us create
>  uniform elements of design for all Fedora-affiliated pages, which when
>  they're finished will be distributed to all sites like fp.o f.r.c and
>  regional pages, or regional news pages. I would like to see where that
>  leads and how fast we can get this wrapped up, so that we might
>  relaunch the look-and feel first, and launch the contest later.
>
>  Just a brain-dump.
>  a
>
>  On 2/13/06, Thomas Chung <tchung(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  > On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:12:34 -0500, Alex Maier wrote
>  > > On 2/13/06, Thomas Chung <tchung(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  > > > As for size, let's limit to 10 MB. Somewhat similar to note you can
> find here:
>  > > >
>  > > > http://www.firefoxflicks.com/adcontest/submit.php
>  > > >
>  > > > Any other suggestion?
>  > >
>  > > Seems reasonable to me.
>  > >
>  > > If noone is really opposed, let's start thinking about the
>  > > infrastructure for this. Shall we have them email the files to me? Or
>  > > shall we have an FTP site where they can upload their stuff to? Or
>  > > some other configuration?
>  > >
>  > > /me is not techie enough to be sure which solution will be best.
>  > >
>  >
>  > I'd say let's create a Wiki page and let them upload it from there.
>  >
>  > Alex, do you want me to create an initial Wiki page for it?
>  >
>  > You can populate the content as we go along.
>  >
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[Thomas Chung]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:36:31 -0500, Alex Maier wrote
>  Oh yes, and we also need to decide on the panel of judges and
> criteria
>  for the winner selection :) 
Well, count me in. If nobody volunteers, we always have FAMsco. :) 

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[Jack Aboutboul]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 16:36 -0500, Alex Maier wrote:
>  Oh yes, and we also need to decide on the panel of judges and
> criteria
>  for the winner selection :)
>   
+1 for me, too.

[Tejas Dinkar]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 15:05 -0500, Alex Maier wrote:
>  Have Fedora enthusiasts around the world produce short videos in
> media
>  formats that Fedora supports (including Flash, maybe) and submit them
>  to a panel of judges and we will post the best ones on
>  fedora.redhat.com and on wiki, and give the winner a set of schwag (a
>  t-shirt or two, and whatever new schwag we will have). 
I have some parts of the raw dump of FUDCon Delhi, so I should have a
great one ;).

Just to be fair, I'll upload everything in a day or two, so that all the
ambassadors have access to raw content, and I don't hog all the shirts.

Gja
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[Jack Aboutboul]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 15:05 -0500, Alex Maier wrote:
>  Hey people,
>  
>  I had some time to think during my vacation, and here's the idea I got:
>  
>  Have Fedora enthusiasts around the world produce short videos in media
>  formats that Fedora supports (including Flash, maybe) and submit them
>  to a panel of judges and we will post the best ones on
>  fedora.redhat.com and on wiki, and give the winner a set of schwag (a
>  t-shirt or two, and whatever new schwag we will have). 
Alex,

I think it would be awesome if we could announce this at fudcon boston.
We could send out something in the final announcement that says we will
announce a fedora contest there and have it be a big bang, along with
the giveaways that are planned.

Jack

[Aks]

That seems really a great idea. As well the limitation of the file size to
10 MB seems reasonable. Let me know when it is anounced (as I too would be
working over one design).

Abhishek Singh

On 2/14/06, Jack Aboutboul <jaboutboul(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 15:05 -0500, Alex Maier wrote:
>  > Hey people,
>  >
>  > I had some time to think during my vacation, and here's the idea I got:
>  >
>  > Have Fedora enthusiasts around the world produce short videos in media
>  > formats that Fedora supports (including Flash, maybe) and submit them
>  > to a panel of judges and we will post the best ones on
>  > fedora.redhat.com and on wiki, and give the winner a set of schwag (a
>  > t-shirt or two, and whatever new schwag we will have).
>
>  Alex,
>
>  I think it would be awesome if we could announce this at fudcon boston.
>  We could send out something in the final announcement that says we will
>  announce a fedora contest there and have it be a big bang, along with
>  the giveaways that are planned.
>
>  Jack
>
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[Tejas Dinkar]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:08 -0500, Jack Aboutboul wrote:
>  I think it would be awesome if we could announce this at fudcon
> boston. 
What's the point of announcing at FUDCon...

I expect a lot of the footage to come FROM the FUDCon, so announcing
there doesn't give people much time to bring their cameras.

I think announcing now is best,

Gja

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tejas Dinkar wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:08 -0500, Jack Aboutboul wrote:
>   
>
> >I think it would be awesome if we could announce this at fudcon boston.
> >    
> >
>
> What's the point of announcing at FUDCon...
>
>   
>  
because very few read mailing lists?

> I expect a lot of the footage to come FROM the FUDCon, so announcing
> there doesn't give people much time to bring their cameras.
>
> I think announcing now is best,
>   
>  
We can do it twice. Cant hurt.

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