Re: New Project: GNOME YouTube Video Contest

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri spiritone com>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:38:37AM -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> 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.)
> 

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Yes, there is that.  I'm not sure though how to get around this.  Flash
has become a de-facto standard for multimedia on the web.  Unless of
course we could convince google to help fund a free alternative (good
leverage against Adobe later)

On the other hand, success will gain us money to help fund an
alternative.

But the underlying purpose of the idea is that frequently our brand is
subsumed by the vendor/distro.  When people talk about a Redhat desktop,
SuSE desktop or whatever they refer to the default desktop for that
distro.  GNOME is hardly considered.

Having specific channels that highlight cool desktop tricks, application
tutorials like the gimp are all neat ways of bringing people from
different distros under the GNOME brand.

If there are alternatives, I'd like to hear them..

sri