[ubuntu-us-ma] Fwd: [FSF] Why is free software important to you? Submit your response to our new video campaign!

Danny Piccirillo danny.piccirillo at ubuntu.com
Fri Oct 30 13:31:24 GMT 2009


Anybody have some ideas for this? Perhaps it would be worth creating a wiki
page to organize our ideas?

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 23:22, Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo at ubuntu.com
> wrote:

> Leaving out ubuntu loco-contacts because i don't think you meant to include
> them.
>
> That sounds like a great idea Martin! Might require some additional
> planning as to what we will say, etc.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 23:09, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 <campaigns at 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-fsf at gnu.org, info-member at 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 testimonials at 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/>
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> >
>> >
>> >
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