Fedora promoting videos

Naresh KN nareshlx at fedoraproject.org
Mon Aug 11 21:33:30 UTC 2008


Hope you are doing good now Chris. Finding How-To videos and presentation
shouldn't be a problem, but we should be more focusing on how do we get the
promo videos made for Fedora. Coming with a creative concept, story board,
script, finding the right tools and expertise to make it happen!! :)

2008/8/12 Christos Bacharakis <cmpahar at gmail.com>

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> 2008/8/10 Naresh KN <nareshlx at fedoraproject.org>
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> 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:
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>>> 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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> Sorry for being late to answer, I had some health problems. I suggest to
> try finding as many videos about fedora (promoting videos, presentation
> videos, how-to videos) and post them at the wiki under the following address
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/videos . Although I don't know if we
> have to host them in fedoraproject or we can simply post the link (for
> example from youtube) to the wiki. Waiting for feedback.
>
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