Please visit http://www.fsf.org/ now to help us test the new FSF video player and our ability to balance our traffic load before we do a full launch of our year-end membership drive.
You should see a video from FSF member and Samba developer Jeremy Allison. Jeremy does a great job introducing people to the advantages of GNU/Linux and free software, and we hope it will inspire more people to give using it a try. This is the first in a weekly series of videos we will be releasing during our year-end membership drive. The videos will highlight the work of our members and supporters, FSF staff and board members. Please also test our new video widgets at https://my.fsf.org/associate/widget. You can put these widgets on any website you control to help us promote the campaign. They will update automatically from fsf.org as we rotate in new videos. The widget uses Michael Leigeber's Tinybox, with a combination of jQuery and mvembed for the displaying of the video. mvembed, developed by Metavid, is free software written in JavaScript which allows users of browsers who don't have support for the latest HTML5 video and audio tags to enjoy these multimedia aspects, without relying on proprietary software. Our campaigns manager Matt Lee did a great job getting our web pages ready for this. Please send notice of any errors you see to [email protected]. Some lag is expected, so don't worry about that unless it's severe. You can also help today by making an early renewal of your 2010 membership https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom. Thanks for your support! Happy Hacking, Peter and the Free Software Foundation team -- Peter Brown Executive Director Free Software Foundation www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
