Hey DPic, Would you like to do a group video at the next meeting? We could add it to our blogs and such. Post about it to the rest of the Ubuntu community.
Martin, On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 23:03 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > Just thought this was a good idea that Ubuntu LoCo's could get in on > =] > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Holmes Wilson <campai...@fsf.org> > Date: Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 15:50 > Subject: [FSF] Why is free software important to you? Submit your > response to our new video campaign! > To: info-...@gnu.org, info-mem...@gnu.org > > > The FSF is launching a new advocacy campaign, and we'd love to have > you involved. > > One of the most important tasks for us at FSF is to help foster the > understanding that free software is crucial to a free society, and > that citizens should switch to free software at home and in their own > work, for freedom's sake. But in many ways, most of this work has > always been done by the millions of free software users around the > world, telling others why they care about free software and what they > use it for. > > So, why not make all that energy, specificity, and persuasion part of > our message to the world on FSF.org? And what better way to do it > than with videos from free software supporters, published using free > formats and an exciting new free standard for online video? > > In 2-5 minutes, using a camcorder, digital camera, or webcam, you can > create a video about why you or a friend love free software. Then > submit your video and invite friends to do the same! > > Submission guidelines: > > * <http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/video_testimonial_guidelines/> > > At the Women in Free Software Summit and the Boston celebration of > Software Freedom Day 2009, FSF volunteer Dana Moser roved the event > asking participants the following questions, and making videos of the > responses: > > * "What do you do with free software?" > * "Why do you like free software?" > * "Why is software freedom important to you?" > > Blog post with Dana's videos: > > * <http://www.fsf.org/news/video_testimonials_campaign/> > > Direct links to the video files: > > * <http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/what_like_sm.ogv> > * <http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/important_sm.ogv> > > More about Dana: > > * <http://curiousart.org/resume.html> > > We look forward to watching your contributions! > > Thanks, > > Holmes Wilson > > Free Software Foundation > > P.S. We've been collecting written testimonials for a while -- check > out the link below. If you'd like to submit a written testimonial, > email testimoni...@fsf.org. > > * <http://www.fsf.org/resources/testimonials> > > If you'd also like to put up a short video to be part of our end of > year fundraising campaign, instructions are here: > > * <http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/year-end-fundraising-videos/> > > > > info-fsf mailing list > info-...@gnu.org > Unsubscribe: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-fsf > > > > > -- > ☮♥Ⓐ - http://www.google.com/profiles/danny.piccirillo -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
