Idea: 30 sec video contest promoting power user community

[Klaus Borges]

That's a great idea! Since it's a short video, I think a good way to do it
is recording some changes made to a vanilla desktop within a dual monitor
setup (or another trick), so the actual software doesn't need to be shown
yet, and the video's purpose would be to generate interest in the project.
Later on the development stage we could make another video, this time
showing how it works, underneath the curtains.
It doesn't have to be 30 seconds of footage, it could start with the footage
and end with a 5-10s segment with the name, some kind of slogan and a link
to the project's website. Yes, it's the good old viral approach, simple and
efficient.

What do you think?

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Mike Basinger <mike.basinger at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On 05/24/2011 11:20 AM, Jono Bacon wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:20 -0700, thefanum at gmail.com wrote:
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> LaserJock and I have been kicking around an idea on IRC, and wanted to
> >> run it by everyone on the mailing list for input. He came up with the
> >> idea of a short video, that demonstrates some of the customizations we
> >> are capable of in Unity (and as a result also demonstrates what the
> >> Power-User group is about). The parameters we have come up with so far
> >> would be a short (aprox. 30 sec) video, showing a vanilla unity desktop
> >> being customized/tweaked/hacked to the most extreme extent possible. We
> >> were considering a time-lapse style approach, that would also compare
> >> the original vanilla desktop to the tricked out one at the end to show
> >> the contrast.
> >>
> >> The fun part of this idea is, once we have the parameters set, we can
> >> make it a contest open to all, and approach sites like
> >> www.omgubuntu.co.uk and www.webupd8.org to promote it.
> >>
> >> Ideas? Feedback?
> >
> > Sounds like a wonderful idea to me!
> >
> >       Jono
> >
> Is there a Ubuntu Community Video YouTube channel, like the Ubuntu
> Developer Channel?
>
> Mike
>
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