Fedora promoting videos

Máirín Duffy duffy at fedoraproject.org
Thu Aug 14 17:13:12 UTC 2008


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Colby Hoke <choke at redhat.com 
> <mailto:choke at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I think it's something that will need to come from the community and
>     I'm working at doing stuff using OSS - it's just not where I need it
>     to be for my daily job.
> 
> 
> I wonder, is there an appropriate developer's conference situation where 
> we could make a short presentation about what people like you need in 
> video production for 'daily job' activities in a way that inspired 
> someone to take up the challenge and create the application?  The real 
> trick is finding those few key people who know enough about what you 
> need, and have enough coding experience to put a functional application 
> on the map in the space with just enough initial features to build a 
> community around it that can add more features over time.
> 
> Can we as a project organize a posh, snack laden, hack session at a 
> conference to do this? Would developer attendees participate? Am I 
> smoking crack?

Strangely enough while normally I'd suggest LGM [1] for this, it seems 
they don't really cover the FOSS video editing tools.

I wonder if there is a separate conference for FOSS video tools.

~m

[1] http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/index.php?lang=en




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