Re: New Project: GNOME YouTube Video Contest

[Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>]

2009/2/18 Luis Villa <luis tieguy org>:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
>> 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:
>
> Endorsing/using proprietary software (AFAIK none of the free flash
> players plays youtube acceptably, at least using code that is legally
> available in the US.)

I think we should require an OGG/Dirac version, on the other hand,
publishing it at youtube/vimeo is the only way to broadcast the videos
properly.

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Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz