On Jan 13, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Wednesday 12 January 2011 00:05:08 Ian Clarke wrote: >> http://draketo.de/light/english/vision-for-a-social-freenet >> >> An interesting blog entry about what the experience of installing Freenet >> could (and maybe should) be like. This kind of thinking is very useful, we >> should always be imagining what the ideal Freenet installation and usage >> experience should be, and then asking why it isn't currently that easy. > > It's a lot of text.
Has anyone considered giving new users the option to watch a video explaining everything? Of course that's something that wouldn't be feasible until the framework has largely stabilized (beta or release candidate). I think it would be much easier for people to understand if the broad concepts are expressed through audio and video. Such an implementation, though quite far off, would ensure that new users both absorb /and/ understand the important points. Some downsides would be: * Video is limited by the language spoken. Subtitles might work though. * Unless we happen to have a professional A/V volunteer, such a project would either be prohibitively expensive or low quality. * The video could only speak in broad strokes so that it doesn't risk becoming quickly outdated by new revisions to Freenet. If the circumstances are right, such a video would be a significant boon to efforts to grow the user base. ---------------------- Even though it's a lot of text, I like the direction. It brought back my personal dreams of a truly person-to-person network. I'm interested in Freenet because I want to help form the future internet. I want coming generations to have access to the world's history, news, philosophy, science... everything?no matter the restrictions under which they live. As George Orwell said: "He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future." For one to be truly free, no one no one may be allowed to control his access to knowledge. If not a video, there must be some way to implement some of the ideas from this blog post.
