[Office-commits] r9653 - trunk/campaigns/pipeline

[sysadmin]

Author: www-data
Date: Wed Sep 23 11:15:59 2009
New Revision: 9653

Log:
web commit by holmes

Modified:
   trunk/campaigns/pipeline/videotestimonials.mdwn

Modified: trunk/campaigns/pipeline/videotestimonials.mdwn
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--- trunk/campaigns/pipeline/videotestimonials.mdwn     Wed Sep 23 10:39:29 
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+++ trunk/campaigns/pipeline/videotestimonials.mdwn     Wed Sep 23 11:15:59 
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@@ -10,30 +10,41 @@
 
 Lessons learned:
 
-* Give editors (or people submitting videos if the request is online) a primer 
on not including words Linux / Open Source in videos.
+* Give editors (or people submitting videos if the request is online) a primer 
on not including words Linux / Open Source in videos (see guidelines)
 * Add something to the video instructions on using lapel microphones whenever 
possible.  ADDED
 
 ## Launched
 
-* Site
-* Emails
+Checklist:
+
+* Page:
+* Get a link from http://www.fsf.org/resources/testimonials from address@hidden
+
 
 ## Draft
 
 Materials:
 
-### Questions:
+### Submission Guidelines:
+
+* By submitting videos, you're agreeing to license them under the public 
domain, and that you have permission from everyone in the video to do that.
+* If you can, try converting your videos using this command, and posting them 
for us to download.  
 
-* Do we need to edit people out who say "Linux" and not "GNU Linux"? (this is 
obviously a "voice of the people" kind of thing and not FSF speech, so I'm 
inclined to try to keep it to a minimum but let it happen once in a while). 
-* What if they *could* potentially be referring to the kernel and are being 
vague? 
-* If people say "Open" do we have to cut them? 
-* "Open source"?
-* Any other control of message we need to have?  I'd like to keep this as 
light as possible, recognize that we're just as much listening to people here 
as we are pushing our own message.  
+ ffmpeg2theora
 
-Possible solutions:
+* If that looks to hard, post them to [videobin.org](http://videobin.org) or 
[Tinyvid.TV](http://tinyvid.tv/) and send us a link.
+* If you're in a noisy place, try using a lapel mic or something similar 
instead of the mic in the video camera.
+
+One important note: There are a lot of people out there promoting open
+source and an operating system they call Linux on the grounds that it's
+inexpensive and works well -- but it's really important that those of us
+who share the GNU Project's concern for the ethical issues make a point
+of letting people know about the importance of software freedom -- so
+send us your video about *free software* and the *GNU/Linux* operating
+system.
 
-* Tell editors to pull it out
-* Tell video submitters not to include it (tell interviewers to tell 
interviewees this too, but don't make it obnoxious)
+To be completely clear, we can't use videos that use the words "Linux" (not 
referring to the kernel)
+and "Open" (referring to software).  See: [Confusing Words and Phrases that 
are Worth Avoiding](http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html).
 
 ### Email to info-fsf
 
@@ -49,13 +60,15 @@
 
 The FSF is launching a new campaign, and we'd love to have you involved.  One 
of the most important tasks for us at FSF is to persuade people that free 
software is crucially important to a free society, and that they should switch 
to free software in their own work.  But in many ways, most of this work has 
always been done by the millions of free software users around the world, 
telling others why they care about free software and what they use it for.  
 
-So, why not make all that energy, specificity, and persuasion part of our 
message to the world on FSF.org?  And what better way to do it than videos from 
free software supporters, published using free formats and an exciting new free 
standard for online video? 
+So, why not make all that energy, specificity, and persuasion part of our 
message to the world on FSF.org?  And what better way to do it than videos from 
free software supporters, published using free formats and an exciting new free 
standard for online video?  
+
+[Submit a video]() (plus important submission guidelines)
 
 At the Women in Free Software Summit and the Boston celebration of Software 
Freedom Day 2009, FSF volunteer [Dana Moser](http://curiousart.org/resume.html) 
roved the event asking participants the following questions, and making videos 
of the responses:
 
 * "What do you do with free software?"
 * "Why do you like free software?"
-* "Why is it important to you?"
+* "Why is software freedom important to you?"
 
 The responses came out great (watch them below) but that's just the beginning. 
 We'd like you to submit your own video, and invite friends to do the same!  It 
only takes five minutes.  You can do it with your phone, your digital camera, 
or your webcam.  
 
@@ -73,7 +86,7 @@
 
 VIDEO
 
-These came out great, didn't they?  Take 5 minutes to [submit one of your 
own]().
+These came out great, didn't they?  Take 5 minutes to [submit one of your 
own]().  
 
 Thanks to everyone who participated in the "beta" videos above.
 
@@ -86,6 +99,15 @@
 Fumiki Yuguchi              Nate Aune
 Christine Spang             Steve Revilak
 
+Thanks,
+
+Holmes Wilson
+Free Software Foundation
+
+P.S. We've been collecting written testimonials for a while-- check out the 
link below.  If you'd like to submit a written testimonial, email address@hidden
+
+http://www.fsf.org/resources/testimonials
+
 ### Report back from Dana Moser w/ video links:
 
 Subject: Re: Any video yet?