Jeremy was asked to take part in the Free Software Foundation's video campaign entitled "I use Free Software, and I support Free Software", which launches on Monday, and decided to do something targeted at Windows users, and salesman-like :-).
Ellen Ko spent half a day coaching him through "about 20 bloody takes, most of which were disastrous and ended up with me screaming into the camera after screwing it up one way or another."
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jra
2009-10-31 05:20:06
The FSF will be running the video in Ogg - I already created an Ogg version for them (the camera films in mpeg2, what can you do :-). Tuxdeluxe linked to the non-free Youtube version as the FSF video isn't up yet and the Tuxdeluxe site doesn't have the bandwidth to serve the video directly.
Just thought you should know we did think about these things !
"If you're doing something hard and nobody hates it, you probably aren't doing it. If the right people hate it and those people happen to be some of the worst people alive, so much the better."
"[t]he rules of the vote saw community members asked to rank each of the eight proposals. Just under 600 people voted, but Debian’s election team rejected many for unspecified reasons, leaving almost 450 valid votes to count."
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jra
2009-10-31 05:20:06
Just thought you should know we did think about these things !
Jeremy.