Fedora promoting videos

Naresh KN nareshlx at fedoraproject.org
Sun Aug 10 14:58:48 UTC 2008


I agree. I foresee this to be a great way to promote Fedora to the mass.
Lets give a heads up to this initiative. How do we kick start? Any
thoughts??

-Naresh

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro>
> wrote:
> > I think you understand that Fedora being a community distro such a video
> > should come from the community, namely from you, me and others like
> us....
> > So if you want such a video, start working to make it happen: maybe write
> a
> > script, maybe shoot some footage with your camera, maybe do some editing
> > with video software...
>
> I think a 'truth happens' for Fedora coming out of the Red Hat side of
> the fence would not be a bad thing as long as its done right.  There
> are video production experts over there, and they do have mad skillz.
> As long as we are willing to accept that to make a video like that we
> aren't going to be dog-fooding our our video tools.  If this is
> something 'we' want I'm sure there are ways of approaching the video
> gurus inside the Red Hat fence line.
>
> If they were going to take on such a task at the behest of our
> community marketing group, I would ideally like to see some sort of
> partnership evolve such that community produced material was
> incorporated but gave the video experts a lot of creative control on
> how to use the material...including choice of digital tools to use.
> But that's just me talking.
>
> And I should clarify since I know people lurk on this list, I have
> said in the past that I don't want the Red Hat side of the fence
> leading an effort to get a Fedora community video production process
> up and running. I've said that primarily because I am afraid that the
> quality of the work they typically do is orders of magnitude above
> what we can do with in-distro tools and having them jump in early and
> gifting us with very nice, well produced videos for us to use would
> taint the discussion concerning our own toolset. Banging our
> collective heads on creating screencasts and interviews using the
> in-distro tools is an important part of a community push to move this
> toolspace forward and I didn't want to see that short-circuited by
> setting the bar on video quality for the community too high with a set
> of initial video drop.  But we have a process in place now, and it
> could be time to think about how we deal with the need for high
> production quality videos meant for re-use as marketing pieces that we
> know we don't have the toolset to build in-distro...yet.
>
> -jef
>
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