[CoLoCo] Linux Needs Something Like This

[David L. Willson]

It took me all day to say I completely disagree, because flash is
hammered on my box (wailing and gnashing of teeth), so I had to wait to
get to a machine that I could view the vids on.  These vids are YouTube
implants.  They are consistent with the quality of other vids on
YouTube.  I find no cause for criticism.

~Enthusiasts~ should share their excitement.  Even if their production
skills or resources are limited, they should sing from the mountaintops
about the parts of Ubuntu / Linux / Free Software that they find most
exciting.

~Canonical~ should make a nice introductory video, like the one that
Apple made for Leopard, at least every time they make an LTS release,
and the one that Canonical makes should look good, highlight new
features, touch on oldies-but-goodies, and it should be consumable in a
wide variety of formats.

Telling folks not to proselytize if they can't do it right, is wrong.
We all love this stuph in our own way, and Linux grows friend-to-friend.
If you want to see a website with professional quality vids, start one.
I'll help you.

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 09:27 -0700, David Overcash wrote:
> While I think ubuntuvideo.com is a great idea, it looks like absolute
> crap (in the professional sense) compared to anything else out there.
> I hate to say it, but sometimes community contribution to promoting
> Ubuntu hurts it more than it helps. 
> 
> Someone over at Canonical should take over it, clean it up (make it
> look more like a real tutorial website rather than a blog with posted
> videos), and start advertising it on google adwords to key words like
> "windows, os x, mac, tutorial." 
> 
> Sorry for the cynicism, but I'm confident that the number one reason
> Ubuntu doesn't grow faster is due to poor or unprofessional user
> promotion.
> 
> -David
> 
> On Dec 19, 2007 9:02 AM, Joey Stanford < joey at canonical.com> wrote:
>         http://www.ubuntuvideo.com/   ?
>         
>         
>         On 12/18/07, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
>         > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:30:48 -0500, Michael \"TheZorch\"
>         Haney wrote 
>         > > David L. Willson wrote:
>         > > > And something like this, too:
>         > > > http://www.apple.com/macosx/guidedtour/
>         > > I agree.  Its one thing to tell people how great Linux is
>         but until you 
>         > > actually show them something they won't believe it.
>         >
>         > That movie shows Mac zealots what they can do with a Mac, so
>         that when a non-zealot is
>         > near them, they are going, "It does this and this and this
>         and I never use these, but it 
>         > does this and this and this, too..."  That's excitement and
>         education combined.  And I'm
>         > betting that the movie didn't cost a ton to make.
>         >
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