I agree. I foresee this to be a great way to promote Fedora to the mass. Lets give a heads up to this initiative. How do we kick start? Any thoughts??
-Naresh On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Jeff Spaleta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I think you understand that Fedora being a community distro such a video > > should come from the community, namely from you, me and others like > us.... > > So if you want such a video, start working to make it happen: maybe write > a > > script, maybe shoot some footage with your camera, maybe do some editing > > with video software... > > I think a 'truth happens' for Fedora coming out of the Red Hat side of > the fence would not be a bad thing as long as its done right. There > are video production experts over there, and they do have mad skillz. > As long as we are willing to accept that to make a video like that we > aren't going to be dog-fooding our our video tools. If this is > something 'we' want I'm sure there are ways of approaching the video > gurus inside the Red Hat fence line. > > If they were going to take on such a task at the behest of our > community marketing group, I would ideally like to see some sort of > partnership evolve such that community produced material was > incorporated but gave the video experts a lot of creative control on > how to use the material...including choice of digital tools to use. > But that's just me talking. > > And I should clarify since I know people lurk on this list, I have > said in the past that I don't want the Red Hat side of the fence > leading an effort to get a Fedora community video production process > up and running. I've said that primarily because I am afraid that the > quality of the work they typically do is orders of magnitude above > what we can do with in-distro tools and having them jump in early and > gifting us with very nice, well produced videos for us to use would > taint the discussion concerning our own toolset. Banging our > collective heads on creating screencasts and interviews using the > in-distro tools is an important part of a community push to move this > toolspace forward and I didn't want to see that short-circuited by > setting the bar on video quality for the community too high with a set > of initial video drop. But we have a process in place now, and it > could be time to think about how we deal with the need for high > production quality videos meant for re-use as marketing pieces that we > know we don't have the toolset to build in-distro...yet. > > -jef > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list >
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