Olav- I have been imagining the same thing! A commercial of sorts, is how I have been seeing it. I'd love to help-
Christy On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Bryen M Yunashko <a11yro...@bryen.com>wrote: > On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 10:24 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > > I noticed the following: > > http://launch.wearemaersk.com/ > > > > It is a movie which pretty much explains the goal of a company. It also > > talks about some challenges. > > > > I think it would be nice to have a movie like that to explain GNOME. And > > then something which is not out of date within a year. I guess it is > > very difficult to produce, but it would be nice to have such a video. > > > > The goal would be to show it on www.gnome.org, and we could show it > > during conferences. We'd need captions for conferences though. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Olav > > > We need captions at all times, not just at conferences. :-) Some of > us, including me, are Deaf and can't follow the online videos without > some kind of subtitling. It's getting to be a problem as more and more > things are going towards video and it pushes out the Deaf community as > potential adopters of $opensource-project. And there is a significant > amount of people with hearing loss in the world. For example in the > US, it is estimated that 10% of the population has a hearing loss. That > amounts to over 30-million people. > > Furthermore, captioning expands our reach across language barriers. > With the option to select the caption in a language of your choice, we > reach multiple countries with the same video. Also, the captions help > increase search-engine indexing quality. Search engines can scan text > (captions) for keywords, but not videos themselves. :-) > > I would love to see the open source community evolve its thinking to > integrate captioning at all times, and not just for specific things like > conferences. > > (stepping off soapbox) > > Bryen M Yunashko > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >
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