[mdlug] An Idea inspired by....

[Robert Adkins]

Ron,

    I like the cut of your jib and would like to subscribe to your 
newsletter.

    I should add though, that to shoot the video, in order for it to 
look more than just "some amateurish thing", a "proper" professional 
grade video camera should be used, along with the proper lighting, a 
nice neutral backdrop as well as low or absolutely no background noise.

    Cutting the switch commentary with some of the really nifty, 
interesting bits about a Linux Desktop Manager, like KDE (One desktop 
should be focused on for this kind of thing, it doesn't have to be KDE.) 
should be shown across the screen. Whatever Desktop is used, should 
remain the same across ALL of the spots, if more than one spot is created.

    This would be difficult to do, knowing the major opinions so many of 
different Linux users/advocates. However, to the layperson, such a well 
polished series of pieces would do more to draw them to Linux than 
anything else.

    -Rob

Ron Blanchett wrote:
> I recently had an idea that was inspired by a few of the things that I have been reading
> over the last few months. The first of which was the paper by Eric Raymond & Rob Landley
> entitled "World Domination 201" [1], the second being a Blog post by Helios [2], and the
> third being a comment to Helios' blog post and its expanded ideas [3]. Keep in mind that my
> idea is not originally mine but is an expansion of someone else's idea.
>
> My idea could help the FOSS community in many ways but the first of which I believe to be in
> advertising it biggest piece of software, Linux.  Before I get to my idea I would like to start with
> some background on the ideas presented by the three things that inspired my thinking.
> The first of which is Eric and Rob's paper WD201, in it I beieve that Eric and Rob are trying
> to point out to the FOSS community that they need to pick one battle and win it instead of trying
> to win an entire war all at one. The battle that they are referring to is Desktop Domination for Linux.
> And the overall 'war' (for lack of a better term) they refer to is the overall adoption of FOSF (free and open source formats).
> Helios further expands on this idea in his blog post by pointing out a few of the things that the user
> community can do to help win this battle and even examples of things that he is doing to help. A reader
> of this blog brings up the idea in a comment and is his own blog of creating a series of videos  to be posted
> to places like YouTube to help Linux gain desktop domination.
>
> All of these things tied together in my mind with the culmination of the idea to setup a few video booths at 
> Penguicon in April to record peoples statements on why they switched to Linux. I believe that these videos could be
> done to the tune of a satire of the Apple Switch commercials. To be successful the switch type videos need
> to be as vendor/distro neutral as possible and really only need to state why the person giving there reason
> for switching switched from Windows to Linux. This idea can also be further expanded upon to include a
> few satires of current Apple vs. WinTel PC's commercials with a us doing a similar type of commercial that
> replaces the Apple PC with a Linux PC or maybe adds in a Linux PC along with the other.
>
> I am not a videographer or writer so I am posting this here to both garner interest and to try to find people that can help
> with this enddever. I have a video camera that can be used but to make this work I think we would need more than
> one video booth setup for people to use. I would also like to find some people that would like to help create the commercial
> that is a satire of the recent Apple commercials and also some people to act out this commercial.
>
> After Penguicon all of the footage will be cut into individual commercials and posted to the web in a low quality format on YouTube
> and similar site to become as viral I hope as the LN2 video from this past Penguicon. The videos will also
> be made available in high quality for LUG's to use as promotional material via either a CD/DVD ISO download and/or a torrent seed.
>
> If any one is interested in helping with this project and collaborating with me on it please let me know ASAP as we will
> need to start working on this very soon for it to be ready to be done at Penguicon this April.
>
>
> Thanks for all the fish,
> -Ron
>
> [1]: http://catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html
> [2]: http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/91-OK,-Heads-Up-Linux,-Youre-on-in-5..4..3..2-cue-music....html
> [3]: http://upgrade2linux.blogspot.com/
>
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