[mdlug] An Idea inspired by....

[bob dion]

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.
> 

I was disappointed when Helios pulled the plug on the Linux radio spots 
project he started.

If I'm in town, I'd be glade to help you with lighting, although I do 
not have a video light kit just a flash kit. I also have a backdrop 
stand for seamless paper if needed and some other stands and reflectors.

BD