On 5/21/05, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/21/05, Chris Deigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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) > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list