Re: GNOME tour?

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 5/21/05, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> On 5/21/05, Chris Deigan <chris deigan id au> wrote:
> > quote("Luis Villa");
> > > For the liveCD, I'd like to use Theora, but probably flash or even
> > > still/simple screenshots makes sense for the web.
> >
> > Flash is arse. It's non-free, doesn't run on various architectures
> > (well, the macromedia player that actually plays anything in this
> > century doesn't) and is, well, arse.
> >
> > What would be awesome, however, is to annodex a bunch of demo vids in
> > theora and create an Annodex web from it. You could have one long video
> > demonstrating programs fairly briefly with a link to a more detailed
> > videos for specific applications, or all sorts of other whacky stuff.
> >
> > http://annodex.net/
>
> Annodex would actually be pretty awesome for the liveCD- thanks for
> the suggestion. Looks like content creation, for our purposes,
> wouldn't be particularly more difficult than the other proposed
> formats, though the lack of a standalone player might be a little bit
> of a PITA (I'm not terribly excited about having a browser frame
> around all the demos on the CD.)

Oh, and the firefox-specificness of the plugin (AFAICS) is probably
also a problem.

Luis
 
> On the website, thought, we're not talking about marketing to people
> who are free software purists or who are on obscure platforms- we're
> talking about marketing to people who are fairly mainstream* and
> looking for alternatives. Those people *all* have flash installed. So
> asking them to install Yet Another Plugin to view something whose
> value they are ambivalent about in the first place doesn't make sense.
> I'm not a big fan of non-free either, but if I can create it in Free
> tools (which I can) and if I can view it in non-free tools (which I
> can, albeit that's not the common way) then I'm not going to ask
> people *who I'm trying to sell to* to jump through extra hoops. [I
> wouldn't object to doing a basic tour in flash, and having the same
> super-tour that is on the CD also available on the web, with a link to
> the plugin.]
>
> Luis
>
> * some examples we could be targetting:
>  university students who have heard about this linux thing
>  ISVs thinking about porting to Linux (which means windows and mac
> users, basically)
>  marketing folks from our distro partners (who in most cases have
> flash installed, even if they are using linux)