Re: [ubuntu-marketing] How do I get permission to use commercial music?
Due to cost and legal hassles in licensing a single track for a small project I strongly recommend that you find suitable music somewhere else where it's either free or can be licensed with a few clicks and a credit card for a few hundred bucks. I recommend Jamendo (www.jamendo.com) for that, they have a catalog of over 50.000 albums distributed under creative commons and many of them offer their music under a license that allow derivate works (sometimes even commercial) without any payment or special permission. Others wants to be paid for commercial use and Jamendo has a standard fee for that and a license can be aquired and paid for with a few clicks. The license used for each track is prominently displayed and they are all standard creative commons licenses so its easy to find out what you are allowed and not allowed to do. If in doubt you can always contact the artist directly. They are all struggling indies and friendlier to deal with than a star or a major label. Let me know if you need any help in finding music or sorting out the license details. I'm a big fan of Jamendo and creative commons. As a matter of principle I only listen to music released under creative commons so that I'm free to copy it to my friends without being called a thief or pirate. I have about 120 favorite albums from 80 artists on my computer and I've gotten nearly all of them from Jamendo. You can find some of my artist recommendations on my blog: http://tordj.blogspot.com/search/label/jamendo They cover most kinds of music styles. Regards, Tord Jansson On 09/08/2011 12:39 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: I would really like to use some of the music of Nellie McKay in a few promotional videos for Ubuntu. How do I go about getting them? If anyone has experience with these types of inquiries, I'd appreciate some advise. Kind regards, Jo-Erlend Schinstad -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
[ubuntu-marketing] How do we syndicate videos for a LoCo?
I've been having some discussions with the contact for the Norwegian LoCo, Rubén Romero -- huayra on IRC -- regarding syndication of videos. I bring this to your attention of two main reasons: 1) the problem might not be restricted to our LoCo and 2) we don't feel competent enough to decide which course of action is best suited to obtain our goals. I am hoping to find a canonical way of doing this, or if none exists, to create one. I also hope that this discussion will be a narrow one, with a clear focus on the task at hand, because I feel that a good solution might make it much easier for us to create content on a global scale. Would it, for instance, be possible to create a screencast of a new release that is translated to all languages and told by the best narrators we have to offer in each country? This would have the advantage of cross language contamination, which in and off itself would not only be of great marketing benefits, but also prove that we're able to do the things that only the great multinational corporations have been able to do until now. I obviously believe that it is possible, but I also believe that it is one of those things we have to do in order to prove that we have come of age. So the question is how. To me, the obvious choice is YouTube, not only because it's the most well known video sharing website, but also because of our ties -- on all levels -- to Google. I have seen channels on YouTube, but I don't have any experiences with creating one. I also think we should not let ourselves become blind sided on YouTube. There might be other choices. Therefore, I present a list of goals that I personally think is essential, in the hope that someone has A Correct Answer. If we cannot come up with one, then I feel it is a bug of similar magnitude to #1. * 1) We need leadership. * 2) Leadership should not depend on any single individual. * 3) Content should be created by any user on their own account, not a central one. * 4) Content that we use must be explicitly licensed in a free way. * 4) Editors and administrators should be separate roles, the administrators being those responsible for passwords, etc. * 5) Content suitable for i18n should be pushed upstream to a wider audience. What is the best solution? Have I missed something in my list of goals? Let the games begin. Jo-Erlend Schinstad -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] How do we syndicate videos for a LoCo?
You can count me in. I have read a lot of discussions of this issue from community projects to contests involving regular users. Regarding the licensing I don't know what you mean. If you are talking about being able to say we are official or something like that, I believe I read a post about it and it wasn't a big deal, I could look it up. When you mean that users should create content on their own account do you mean that the site should basically upload what users create? The last discussion ended with us talking about what would be the incentive for common users and some started talking about a contest and money which obviously wasn't possible from our place. I'm sorry to bring up the subject again, but If we came up with a better solution we could encourage users to create their own videos. Also I don't think we would have problems with translations, even if we don't get voices we can use google subtitles which is a very easy function. 2010/9/14 Jo-Erlend Schinstad joerlend.schins...@gmail.com I've been having some discussions with the contact for the Norwegian LoCo, Rubén Romero -- huayra on IRC -- regarding syndication of videos. I bring this to your attention of two main reasons: 1) the problem might not be restricted to our LoCo and 2) we don't feel competent enough to decide which course of action is best suited to obtain our goals. I am hoping to find a canonical way of doing this, or if none exists, to create one. I also hope that this discussion will be a narrow one, with a clear focus on the task at hand, because I feel that a good solution might make it much easier for us to create content on a global scale. Would it, for instance, be possible to create a screencast of a new release that is translated to all languages and told by the best narrators we have to offer in each country? This would have the advantage of cross language contamination, which in and off itself would not only be of great marketing benefits, but also prove that we're able to do the things that only the great multinational corporations have been able to do until now. I obviously believe that it is possible, but I also believe that it is one of those things we have to do in order to prove that we have come of age. So the question is how. To me, the obvious choice is YouTube, not only because it's the most well known video sharing website, but also because of our ties -- on all levels -- to Google. I have seen channels on YouTube, but I don't have any experiences with creating one. I also think we should not let ourselves become blind sided on YouTube. There might be other choices. Therefore, I present a list of goals that I personally think is essential, in the hope that someone has A Correct Answer. If we cannot come up with one, then I feel it is a bug of similar magnitude to #1. * 1) We need leadership. * 2) Leadership should not depend on any single individual. * 3) Content should be created by any user on their own account, not a central one. * 4) Content that we use must be explicitly licensed in a free way. * 4) Editors and administrators should be separate roles, the administrators being those responsible for passwords, etc. * 5) Content suitable for i18n should be pushed upstream to a wider audience. What is the best solution? Have I missed something in my list of goals? Let the games begin. Jo-Erlend Schinstad -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing -- Lisandro H. Vaccaro -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] How do we encourage game developers to work with Linux?
First your arguing that FOSS isn't commercial (which is very wrong), then your arguing that we have a social problem with expecting peer reviewed code. And finally you wrap it up with a market size argument. So which is it? Is Ubuntu not a big enough target or are we just jerks to poor developers and want to make sure they don't earn any money? Let's all repeat this together: FOSS and Ubuntu are commercial, they earn money and make livings. Martin, On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 09:10 -0400, Mike Feravolo wrote: I don't think that you are never going to get mainstream game developers to support Linux because they are in the business of selling the games, not giving them away. Also if they did release binaries for the major distros, they would still get attacked for not making them open source. Mainstream game developers that write state of the art games, write them for gaming appliances like Playstation, X-Box, Wii etc. They release Windows versions, because there is a large market of Windows users that buy them. -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] How do we encourage game developers to work with Linux?
First, start small. The AAA developers are not interested. They have turn-around times measured in years for _becoming_ interested and they don't see a valuable market yet. We don't need them anyway. What we want is to encourage And To Help casual, independent game developers. Talented people / small groups that agree what they do is fun and like to do cool things. And what _they_ tend to like is clarity. I see the success of dedicated game development languages like Blitz3D, and the very frequent use of packaged engines like Ogre3D, as examples to this end. These developers like APIs and development tools, of course. Good ones. Clear ones. Ones that say use this; don't worry, we won't take it from you in a year. I'm not talking complex do-everything languages (like the horror that is Darkbasic), either. There should be nothing that somebody may not use in a given project. They need packaging tools, but we shouldn't jam these down their throats at the start because game development is all about rapid prototyping. Add in Makefiles and boilerplate wrangling and you have KILLED whatever creative spark there was ten minutes ago. A draw of something like Blitz is you can instantly have something working (and building anywhere) without any fussing. As for when fussing becones necessary, BuilDj or Gyp are perfect choices here because they're nice enough to use that you don't need to start early. (And they're strict enough that a dedicated IDE could generate their respective build description files magically). Quickly is a step in that direction because it gives the user a bunch of tools and says these are the ones you're using. We need that, but focused on high performance stuff that doesn't use (or want to use) GTK, or anything particularly high level. Come to think of it, the modding community is a thriving one, too, building off fully formed games like HalfLife 2 (usually with total conversions like Eternal Silence and Project Reality). It could be interesting to explore what makes them tick, and see how a Quickly For Games could interest them. One other thing is Ubuntu needs to stop being so great to develop mundane software for. I was GOING to make a game. A really cool one. Then Python and apt-get source ruined me ;) Dylan -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
[ubuntu-marketing] How do we encourage game developers to work with Linux?
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[ubuntu-marketing] How do we handle these issues?
I have a problem, I hope you can help me with this. I've promised to create good and extensive screenshots for Ubuntu Norway. I have some reservations, since I want to do a professional job. I don't want to release screencasts which doesn't match the real product, but I don't want to redo my work either. The latest news is that the decision to keep or change the titlebar buttons will be made public earliest at the release of beta 2, or possibly release candidate. I've been planning for this for more than six months, and I have had to reschedule lots of stuff because of it. Now, it seems, I may have no more than a week to create in-depth screencasts of Ubuntu. Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu, I don't know if these are going to change as well. At this time, I think I'll have to drop presentations of Evolution, OpenOffice.org and Kubuntu. The original plan, was to have real in-depth screencasts of Ubuntu, a little less in-depth presentation of Kubuntu, and superficial presentations of Xubuntu and Lubuntu. How are you handling these issues in your languages, and if you're going ahead, how do you present the change of the titlebar buttons? Thanks, Jo-Erlend Schinstad -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] How do we get one for the marketing team?
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:47 AM, John Botscharow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan, Thanks. I kinda like it myself :-) I am pretty new to the team and am not real sure on how to proceed, so if there is something that I should do to move this forward, please let me know. And I have no objections to either private emails or private IRC messages. My IRC name - is that the correct terminology? - is jbotscharow. Just be aware that I am a slow typist and may make a few typos here and there :-) I don't have the luxury of spellcheck on IRC. On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:37:48 -0500 Alan Munson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, that sounds like an awesome idea! I personally love it myself...anybody else interested in this idea? On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 23:27 -0500, John Botscharow wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was just in my Firefox and noticed that I had inadvertently installed a plug in for the Italian LoCo that has links to various pages on the community pages for their members. I thought that was a very cool idea and was wondering how does such a plug in come about? I'm not a developer, so I would not even dare attempt to code one myself, but is there someone I should contact with my ideas for a couple of custom plug ins like the Italian one. How does the idea of a marketing team plug in sound? One that is customized for the LoCo with links to various marketing pages like Resources, Content, etc - -- Peace! John -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIU0jEsTN+hz1Fu7URApGVAJ9zUmgZMbbRlYxD2wffgYelgwDHvACgvvj1 YcZJ6ioaKPFlD1X+W79b8jE= =4vRZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- - -- Peace! John -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIU5OwsTN+hz1Fu7URAkBdAKDnEMTtpZKk9JOxj/Ve2c01R9rmAgCePKXE bh1h+x/ecXtdiE8Q9VTEaiw= =QOtK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing Thats an excellent idea! I dont know how to code either, but it would be great if this could be done. -- Bruno Barrera Yever -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] TO DO list for the magazone
a lot of good work going here http://www.ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Help On 8/9/06, sara vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rich can you put this on the TODO Wiki 1st issue (Learning about Ubuntu) Web site Layout, art work --John and Pascal What is Ubuntu (the software) - Sara, any one else interested? Intro to it Linux-Ubuntu-Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc What is it, Why is it so stable, What is open source, Ubuntu is not Linux, but ubuntu has Linux What is Ubuntu (the comunity) -Sara, looking for someone to do it, maybe Rich? I am thinking that this would be a good time to get an interview with Joh Bacon How 2.0 Packagin and Ubuntu Eric How to install pacakges on Ubuntu and Kubuntu Installing commercial packages from Canonicals repo Spotlight on Ubuntu ( Articels that show the advantage of Ubuntu) Here I would like to make some screenkast to show off AdeptSara (it was a Kubuntu initiative and I think that Kubuntu is the only one that uses it as its native package manager) Add/Remove programs- Someone? I think that is is an important part of Ubuntu we take from granted Automoatic Update- Someone? another important part of Ubuntu to show off. How can you help-- Looking for someone A list of place and thing that community members can do to help 2nd Issue (the user experience)Maybe if I get enough volunteers we can include this on the first issue I think we need to show thing that Ubuntu has to make the use experience better. XGL, Katapult, Kubuntu's system settings, I mainly use kubuntu so I know most of them. I first wanted to put this on the 1st issue, but I feel that what we need now is to finish something and then move foward, but we need a product -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing -- Linux User #348873 ILUGD Commitee Member, GZLUG , DGLUG Moderator Software Trainee @ Xavient B.Tech 4th Year Computer Science , RKGIT , Ghaziabad http://rockybhai.blogspot.com When i can run , i will run , When i can walk , i will walk, When i can crawl , i will crawl. But i will not stop moving forward -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] TO DO list for the magazone
This is terrific. Very neat and clean interface and lots of good stuff. Rajiv On 8/10/06, गौरव मिश्रा(Gaurav) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a lot of good work going here http://www.ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Help On 8/9/06, sara vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rich can you put this on the TODO Wiki 1st issue (Learning about Ubuntu) Web site Layout, art work --John and Pascal What is Ubuntu (the software) - Sara, any one else interested? Intro to it Linux-Ubuntu-Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc What is it, Why is it so stable, What is open source, Ubuntu is not Linux, but ubuntu has Linux What is Ubuntu (the comunity) -Sara, looking for someone to do it, maybe Rich? I am thinking that this would be a good time to get an interview with Joh Bacon How 2.0 Packagin and Ubuntu Eric How to install pacakges on Ubuntu and Kubuntu Installing commercial packages from Canonicals repo Spotlight on Ubuntu ( Articels that show the advantage of Ubuntu) Here I would like to make some screenkast to show off AdeptSara (it was a Kubuntu initiative and I think that Kubuntu is the only one that uses it as its native package manager) Add/Remove programs- Someone? I think that is is an important part of Ubuntu we take from granted Automoatic Update- Someone? another important part of Ubuntu to show off. How can you help-- Looking for someone A list of place and thing that community members can do to help 2nd Issue (the user experience)Maybe if I get enough volunteers we can include this on the first issue I think we need to show thing that Ubuntu has to make the use experience better. XGL, Katapult, Kubuntu's system settings, I mainly use kubuntu so I know most of them. I first wanted to put this on the 1st issue, but I feel that what we need now is to finish something and then move foward, but we need a product -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing -- Linux User #348873 ILUGD Commitee Member, GZLUG , DGLUG Moderator Software Trainee @ Xavient B.Tech 4th Year Computer Science , RKGIT , Ghaziabad http://rockybhai.blogspot.com When i can run , i will run , When i can walk , i will walk, When i can crawl , i will crawl. But i will not stop moving forward -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] to do
I'd say that just posting all of what needs to be done, then assigning those that you know are covered works well. Then anything left people can see needs to be done and can take it if they want to. On 7/19/06, sara vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okplease bear with me as I am learning as I go and I am thinking out loud. Iam thinking if my to do list is the best way to approach this. I feel reallyweird handing out jobs and not being complete sure that I am taking full advantage of your help, so if you think that there is a better way to carryon please let me know. As you can see from my previous e-mail you can seethat I am having second thoughts concerning the coherence of the assignments. Sara--ubuntu-marketing mailing listubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.comhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
[ubuntu-marketing] to do
ok please bear with me as I am learning as I go and I am thinking out loud. I am thinking if my to do list is the best way to approach this. I feel really weird handing out jobs and not being complete sure that I am taking full advantage of your help, so if you think that there is a better way to carry on please let me know. As you can see from my previous e-mail you can see that I am having second thoughts concerning the coherence of the assignments. Sara -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] What do you do with a good idea?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Baer wrote: 1. Spread Ubuntu A lot of discussion but I am uncertain of what this is all about. Yes I have spent some time at the Firefox site and I realize it is very popular, but what does it mean to Ubuntu? Someone needs to champion this idea, make it a project, and write a plan. I need help understanding and with all due respect, as of this moment it is just a good idea. John, please read the spec on the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/SpreadUbuntu It's not perfect, but it says quite a bit about what SU is supposed to do and be. I probably won't make much progress on it in the next month, as I'm leaving for nearly three weeks. But during august, I'd like to get the site running. Jenda -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEugoPkfxlW1GdBWoRAhE2AKCBQqQoAptcQ1HXZdHqfWdd52Ir0gCfZPGe WAJllyptLVJawik2J4Kch0Q= =OE/N -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
