New Project: GNOME YouTube Video Contest

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

How about a video contest for GNOME desktop tips and howtos? (Sriram Ramkrisha had this great idea on IRC and I thought I'd bring it over to the marketing list.)

Users upload them to YouTube and we put them all in one channel.

Working with Google, we might be able to also sign up for the YouTube partner program for them.

Benefits:

• Lots of howto videos for GNOME related technologies. (Lots of technologies and companies are successfully using video to help out new users now. Lately I've watched several really useful ones for some really simple things.)
  
• Help GNOME users that are googling for answers
  
• Generate excitement around GNOME
• Generate word of mouth marketing for GNOME technologies
  

Work/Costs:

• Marketing the contest, getting people to submit videos
  
• Setting up a YouTube channel for people to submit to
• Working with Google to see if we can get our channel signed up for the YouTube
• Picking a prize
• Providing the prize
• Making videos! :)
  

Anybody want to help?

Stormy