Writes Nelson Pavlosky on our blog: [![Win $1000! Enter the 2008 Sparky Awards][1]][2]
Students for Free Culture is co-sponsoring the 2008 [Sparky Awards][2], which asks people to make a short video to illustrate the value of information sharing. The first place winner will get a Sparky statuette and $1,000, and there will be some nifty prizes for the runners-up as well. The official list of judges isn't up yet, but [Rich Jones][3] from our [Boston University chapter][4] will be one of the judges, and hopefully our chapter members will create some fabulous entries! The [winners from last year][5] were pretty excellent (personally I'm partial to “Pri Vetai: Private Eye”), and I'm looking forward to seeing more creative videos about the importance of open access to information :) Just make sure to get your entry in by the deadline of November 30th, 2008! If you want to help promote the video contest, you can find some useful materials in the [downloads section][6] on the Sparky Awards site, or you could share this [promotional video][7] that I threw together: If you want to download the promo video, you can try grabbing the [Ogg Theora version][8] or [mp4][9]. Enjoy! [1]: http://www.sparkyawards.org/bm~pix/2008sparkies-wide.gif [2]: http://www.sparkyawards.org/ [3]: http://www.thenewfreedom.net/ [4]: http://bu.freeculture.org/ [5]: http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/08-0122.html [6]: http://www.sparkyawards.org/downloads/ [7]: http://sparc.blip.tv/file/1047685/ [8]: http://s6.video.blip.tv/0690004048313/Sparc- SparkyAwardsPromotionalVideo646.ogg [9]: http://blip.tv/file/get/Sparc- SparkyAwardsPromotionalVideo720.mp4 URL: http://freeculture.org/blog/2008/07/25/sparky-awards-video-contest/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
