Hi James and Marketing folks, I think the video is pretty cool - do you think we could use it to showcase GNOME for Software Freedom Day? We might want to add a message about how GNOME is free software and the GNOME community supports Software Freedom ...
Stormy On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:38 PM, James Coddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: James Coddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 12:54 PM > Subject: free graphic excitement > To: [email protected] > > > > Greetings GNOME Community! My name is James Coddington, digital media > artist and principle of Zero Point Systems. I find myself fortunate to have > found you all and am inspired by your humanitarian direction. I greatly > appreciate that free software makes it possible for people in 3rd world > countries to use computers and connect to the greater world at large, is > affordable for the disadvantaged and is accessible to the disabled. The > ability to translate into so many different languages is particularly > exciting to me! > > I come to you with enthusiastic inspiration regarding the graphic media (or > lack thereof) of the GNOME community. I must admit, however, that I am > novice GNOME user. > > Upon being familiarized with your cause and software I feel you could reach > a much broader audience if you were to integrate a little more flash > (asthetically) and could be made much more attractive with animation, video > and sounds. It is my hope and vision to create compelling visual stimulus > for this emerging and growing community. > > I designed and created an animation that could be played as the user logs > into their machine to make the experience more exciting. > > I have a wellspring of ideas of how video and animation could be used in > the desktop space. One of which could be that we provide an introductory > video that could be viewed to highlight the usability, freedom and > humanitarian aspect of the project and why people should even consider using > GNOME. We could then turn this animation/video in to a television > commercial with the idea it could be played on PBS or other types of public > access. I know that showcasing work on some public access channels is > completely free. This would be a great place to get airtime for > humanitarian related content. > > Some things that could easily and should be highlighted > It's Free > It's Easy > It's Accessible > Support > Many Humanitarian aspects, like the fact it is used by the one laptop per > child program. > I'm sure there is more that could be added here. Any suggestions of what > we could add? > > I have already donated a significant amount of time on this intro > animation, so it is my hope that that translates into how emphatically > enthusiastic I am about this project! It is also my hope to release this > under the Creative Commons with a small personal signature for networking > purposes. Perhaps I will utilize the Creative Commons Attribution-Share > Alike 3.0 Unported Liscense. > > Again, your cause and community is something that I am very excited about > and would love to get some ideas and feedback on the animation I created. > > http://www.soaringbrain.com/GnomeTest2.swf > > I am aware that to be truly free these movies need to be converted to > Theora or another free format, but I thought I would get your input and > feedback before progressing any further. > > Keep in minds these are low-resolution renders. Perhaps together, we can > sink our teeth into this amazing opportunity and create a very compelling, > high res series of projects that will generate interest, momentum and wonder > in the open source project known as GNOME! Lets set Gnome apart from the > rest with rich visual content that grabs the user and won't let go! > > Feel free to view and get back to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Gratefully Yours, > James Coddington > MVM Digital Media > 773 780 3473 > > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > >
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