On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 10:24 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > I noticed the following: > http://launch.wearemaersk.com/ > > It is a movie which pretty much explains the goal of a company. It also > talks about some challenges. > > I think it would be nice to have a movie like that to explain GNOME. And > then something which is not out of date within a year. I guess it is > very difficult to produce, but it would be nice to have such a video. > > The goal would be to show it on www.gnome.org, and we could show it > during conferences. We'd need captions for conferences though. > > -- > Regards, > Olav
We need captions at all times, not just at conferences. :-) Some of us, including me, are Deaf and can't follow the online videos without some kind of subtitling. It's getting to be a problem as more and more things are going towards video and it pushes out the Deaf community as potential adopters of $opensource-project. And there is a significant amount of people with hearing loss in the world. For example in the US, it is estimated that 10% of the population has a hearing loss. That amounts to over 30-million people. Furthermore, captioning expands our reach across language barriers. With the option to select the caption in a language of your choice, we reach multiple countries with the same video. Also, the captions help increase search-engine indexing quality. Search engines can scan text (captions) for keywords, but not videos themselves. :-) I would love to see the open source community evolve its thinking to integrate captioning at all times, and not just for specific things like conferences. (stepping off soapbox) Bryen M Yunashko -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list