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Linux Foundation Announces 2010 "We're Linux" Video Contest
prourl writes "The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the 2010 'We're Linux' video contest. The contest seeks to find the best user-generated videos that demonstrate what Linux means to those who use it and inspire others to try it." Sadly, the winner will almost certainly be edited in Final Cut Pro on a Mac ;)
My video would be one showing me frustrated, angry, swearing a lot, and ultimately smashing my keyboard (last time I tried Ubuntu on a generic PC). It would end with me saying "fuck it" and installing Windows XP again. I doubt that would win.
I don't respond to AC's.
as the army of porn sites happily hosted on Linux servers open their collective floodgates spewing video offerings.
... with the damned "I'm a" bullshit? It's getting really old.
I'm a PC! Well I'm a Mac!
And back there you have Linux who is insecure and just has to jump onto the bandwagon.
Linux was a community many years ago, but the days of songs around a camp fire are over. These days when I think of Linux, I think of:
Tivo
Apache Web Server
Android phones,
WiFi routers,
OLPC
Portable media players
Server Farms
Linux has really come into it's own, but I don't think anybody will ever mistake it for a hobbyist niche again.
This contest makes me think of the "sexy nerd" calendar they did in The IT Crowd.
Shudder...
Why is that sad? It's a great program that puts world class non-linear editing within reach of most everybody. What is sad, is the insanely expensive and fiddly avid workstations and non-linear editors of the past.
Linux is just like macs in that there are huge disciplines where no applications exist. For example there is no credible 3D solid modeling programs or printed circuit board layout on the Mac. Now there is no credible non-linear video editing program for linux. Both platforms are a niche market, both excel in ways that windows does not, and both are a victim of that nitch-i-ness.
It's only sad if people tried to make a video editor for linux and somehow were denied by forces outside their control. If the only reason is that nobody has bothered to write a good one, then that's not sad.
Sheldon
Seriously, can't these Linux guys ever come up with an original idea? First Apple comes out with "I'm a Mac... and I'm a PC" ads. Then Windows comes out with it's "I'm Windows" campaign. Not satisfied with copying the entire GUI for XP, Vista, OS X, and Windows 7, now Linux nerds are even copying the advertisements? How about some freaking originality once in a while? Where's all this creativity that the community is supposed to engender? So many eyeballs, but the only thing those eyeballs can do is Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V.
to actually make the video, or can you use Win/Mac?
I was perfectly happy with Linux until I wanted to start editing video. Most Linux video editing apps while "free" and do a basic job, they IN NO WAY compare with even iMovie that comes included with your Mac.
And I chose Windows because Linux is still too obtuse for the average user."
Wake me up when it's actually the Year of the Linux Desktop. These false alarms are getting old.
So I guess you are advertising yourself as a PC user by being easily frustrated, violent and unable to learn anything so you resort to using an OS soon 10 years out of date...
Somehow I don't think MS will be calling you to advertise for them.
Lets face it:
Mac users = Gay.
Linux users = Elitist assholes.
BSD users = Even more elitist assholes.
PC users = Wishing they could be any of the above so they to could have cool sites to post upon rather then having to claim "I am a geek" on a windows machine.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
No multi-monitor support. Kernel updates that break drivers. Poor if any documentation. A "community" that trips over itself to insult you when you "dare" ask for help. Yep, we're linux!
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Can we at least get the Linux Foundation to support Ogg/Theora as a supported format to upload videos in. Ideally they would accept only Ogg and use HTML5 to show the videos instead of Flash..
Link?
What?
Populus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur...
"Force shits upon Reason's back." - Poor Richard's Almanac
Why are the trolls so obsessed with some guy's penis?
Things were so much better when I was a troll let me tell you.
I'm a Mac
I'm a PC
I'm IBM
I'm a Windows
Got milk?
Can't we just trash all these? Also, the annoying commercials where lots of multi-culti people finish each other's sentences. Exactly what are you trying to say, that using your product will turn you into a hivemind? Well, isn't that neat.
How about we get more creepy children whispering about mirrors, or babies making stock trades. Babies talking like adults is PURE ADVERTISING GENIUS.
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
http://news.cnet.com/i/bto/20070322/1157960476967.jpg
The Linux Foundation also did this in 2009. Here are last year's winners.
Also, I'm pretty sure that good results come from people who know their tools, and not from the tools themselves. A large amount of the video-editing tools on Linux leave a lot to be desired, but they're still light-years ahead of what was available, say, 20 years back. People made (and still make) good videos/movies without any kind of digital intervention, so that snide remark is probably debatable.
And a cell phone that doesn't ring. Contrast that to my "I am Windows" support team: they haven't left town yet being called back to the office to reboot machines, fix virus problems, mange servers, handle local applications.
Ah....aren't thin clients and Linux grand :)
Better still: http://comixed.com/2010/02/06/comics-comic-strip-yonkoma-trilogy-of-awesome/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-22EpQOm8c
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slashdot.org Errors found while checking this document as HTML5!
with apologies to the "Red Riding Quartet"
Can I just vote for this instead of some dumb video?
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
I guess they like 'em big, and Malda deceived them on CL or something.
My brother has a great screwdriver, (Ok, Settle down - I meant the tool for threaded fasteners) pull the handle back (away from the bit) and the bit retracts - turn the handle to select a new bit, push the handle forward and the new bit comes out. Holds 8 bits. He leaves one of the slots empty so he can put the handle in with no bit showing for the toolbox or pocket.
Sounds like you had no clue what you were doing.
I have computers that run Windows XP, OS X and Fedora. Each one is particularly good at one set of tasks while not so good at others so I switch around as needed. From my experience of installing different operating systems over the past fifteen years, the only one that goes without a hitch every time is OS X, mainly because there's a limited amount of hardware it's expected to support. I've run into install problems with Linux (various distros), Free BSD and Windows and it's always been related to drivers for some obscure piece of hardware. Free BSD, in particular, is very fussy about Ethernet cards.
While I'm not a huge fan of Windows, given the huge variety of hardware out there it's probably not reasonable to expect any OS that's intended to be installed on a generic PC to install flawlessly every time.
This ain't rocket surgery.
I mean, seriously? That's like advertising the keys on a keyboard, or the wheels on a car. Linux always forms part of a product, like a distribution, or a PVR or something, what's the point in it having it's own advert? Now, if they were making Ubuntu, Fedora etc. adverts then yeah that would make sense.
That said, I quite liked the winning ad, if they replaced "Linux" with "Ubuntu" or some other distribution name it would make more sense though.
P.S. Why for the love of code do I have to wait 30 seconds for my preview to come up before I submit? And now I have to wait again coz I edited.. grr..
I've been using Linux since '94. And it's dorky "community" stunts like this that make me want to disassociate and pretend I still used Windows.
"Hey Kids! Let's put on a show!"
"Oh, super! I can recite all the dialogue to "...Holy Grail!" What can everyone else do?"
every so often, I try audicity, remember why it sucks, and use something else.
I was only able to see one video on the site hosting the contest results. I actually had to google search the winner, and watch a copy from Viddler.
Major 3D studios are shifting their entire render farms *and* editing workstations to Linux. Linux is getting bigger and bigger everyday in the computer graphics industry. I wouldn't be surprised if soon the very best setup to do video editing were Linux based too.
But yup, to all the haters... Apache / Linux is a failure, Android is a failure, Maemo is a failure. Ubuntu is a failure and, no, professional aren't doing 3D under Linux but using 3DSMax on Windows.
Yeah, sure.
And now comes the -1 by the paid MS astroturfers and fanbois.
what's wrong with using the right tool for the job? This cuts right to the heart of the Linux issue doesn't it? The software and platform just isn't there to do what many in the consumer base need it to do. It's still a niche offering, albeit a growing one, but Linux just isn't there yet.
this could be done as cgi or maybe actors dressed in costumes for a more campy feel.
Ad starts with a zoomed in, full screen of tux's face. "Tux here. it's hard work being a mascot." (4-color butterfly flies by and then seizes up. "But I sure do love my job."
camera then zooms out to show BSD butt fucking tux doggy style.
ObRalphWiggum:
I'm a unitard!
I'm Idaho!
I'm a viking!
I'm special!
This won't end well.
Get off my lawn.
Depends on what kind of porn you're watching.
TRHOnline - Staggering Towards Brilliance
So let me get this straight. You set up your new Linux machine, and it's working well. You've compiled everything you need to compile, and since you're compiling anything at all it's pretty apparent that you're a geek. Now you set up your machine to dual-boot into Windows, and you stop being a geek all of a sudden? Specifically at what point does that occur?
Around the time the start-up chimes would play on a default install. XD
Bow-ties are cool.
My vid would show a blank desktop, with apps opening as I stabbed at the keyboard (custom keyboard shortcuts for my most used apps), or for less used apps, using the keyboard to bring up the run dialogue or the keyboard shortcut for the terminal.
Perhaps one shot of revealing the hidden taskbar by moving the mouse to the edge of the screen. It would show logging in to remote servers using ssh on the command line, transferring files with scp, and using the multimodal vim editor to edit code and configuration files.
I think "my" Linux would scare most Windows users. If this is a Linux advocacy thing, maybe I should refrain from making a vid.
Loose lips lose spit.
and so can you!
Meep.
This project can not be considered complete unless it contains footage of Richard Stallman wearing a hard-drive platter as a halo, holding a conucopia and his GPL sheild. Bonus points if he is heard correcting someone on terminology during the video.
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Can we at least get the Linux Foundation to support Ogg/Theora as a supported format to upload videos in. Ideally they would accept only Ogg and use HTML5 to show the videos instead of Flash..
The Flash player delivers H.264 video to 99% of the potential market. Flash Player Version Penetration
Hardware accelerated in Flash 10.
The browser with Ogg/Theora support has about 22% of the market. Browser market share
What it does not have is YouTube. What it does not it have is the potent backing of 759 corporate licensees - the biggest names in broadcasting and consumer tech. AVC/H.264 Licensees
Can we please have more IMB-like ethereal commercials showcasing how Linux is growing and is ultimately unstoppable because it represents the collective knowledge of the world?
Faith is a willingness to accept something w/o complete proof and to act on it. Reason allows you to correct that faith.
You know, I learned some modeling and animation with Blender and I'd heard it could do editing - but I haven't really found out anything about how it's done or what it's capable of...
Bow-ties are cool.
I'm using Linux. And I'm boycotting flash. So I'm here on an Ubuntu Linux (my home computer) and can't watch the videos on http://video.linuxfoundation.org/category/we-are-linux-foundation-video-contest the linuxfoundation is talking about. WTF? You people should try to make some accessibility example for OSS folks if you want to be taken seriously. What is this carp??
On the other hand, reading about the content of the videos, maybe it's better this way..
And I chose Windows because Linux is still too obtuse for the average user."
Wake me up when it's actually the Year of the Linux Desktop. These false alarms are getting old.
It could be that the "Linux Platform" (i.e. what you get from a "Linux Distribution" as opposed to, say, something like Android) will always be too obtuse for you. Honestly, I'm fine with that. I'm more interested in it being a good system for me as opposed to a good system for you. I am interested in the technical aspects of computing for their own sake, and I'm interested in participating in the future direction of the platform. I am interested in making Linux a better computing platform - but the direction I want to see it go is not necessarily the one that would suit you.
It may be that I've missed something but I haven't really seen anybody claiming, "OK, casual users, Linux is finally ready for you!" - Rather, I've just been seeing guys like you dragging out the tired old "Year of the Linux Desktop" line ad nauseum to remind everyone that no one has quite bent Linux entirely to your specifications yet... So where's the "false alarm" here?
Bow-ties are cool.
That is so funny and the Linux guy looks just like my neighbour!
I'm afraid that's not possible. See, to get in the ad industry you have to take an IQ test. If you score over 80, you fail.
Free Martian Whores!
and you'll recognize those submissions as the ones where the audio and video are totally out of sync.
Try Audacity, it's much better than that crappy knock-off, Audicity.
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
you know, at least half of the videos are going to end with a Rod Serling like quote
"That book, how to serve the Linux Community, it's a cookbook!"
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Premiere 1.0-6.5 sucked royally. Once they revamped it and made it "Premiere Pro", some of the more recent iterations have been fairly solid; IMO version 2.0 was the best balance between features and bloat. No, it doesn't have perfect compatibility, but I've gotten just about every AVI codec to import and edit properly. While DV-AVI is the codec that Premiere natively edits (and in many cases I find myself transcoding before editing anything else, lets the render times triple), it has supported virtually everything I've tried to edit. The only issue I had was editing .mkv files (which Adobe officially states isn't supported), but even that I was able to Google my way to a workaround. Most of the stability issues I've had have either been due to a corrupted video file, or a third party plugin misbehaving. Premiere has other issues, but it's come a LONG way in recent years.
Sadly, the winner will almost certainly be edited in Final Cut Pro on a Mac ;)
I'll "edit" you with a final cut mister Mac!
I'm sorry, but when I think of a "I'm a Linux" commercial I imagine some 600lb man in a scooter making some incoherent gurgling about something as he drifts in and out of consciousness.
This didn't fail hard enough the last time they did it, I suppose. Get ready for some more generic feel-good meaninglessness. WKA!
That is so funny and the Linux guy looks just like my neighbour!
FYI, the Linux guy is Jay Maynard, the Tron Guy
As far as I know, Linux has never had a decent marketing campaign. I don't care if it's not the most imaginative approach as long as people start to see it as a viable alternative. I'll reserve judgment until the results are in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSu2dzu--TE&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=DED094DC7559526D
I was browsing Wikipedia a while back and found a this prgram, SGO Mistika, which is intended to run on SuSE. It looks pretty high end, though the Wiki page says it has a reputation for having a difficult UI and seems to have a small but dedicated following. Still, it's neat that there's something like this on Linux.
Saying "I'll probably get modded down for this" in a post is the best way to get it modded up.
Sadly, the winner will almost certainly be edited in Final Cut Pro on a Mac ;)
Why not Cinellera on Linux?
You wouldn't want to base your self image on statements by somebody like the above AC, would you?
It starts with the typical Mac/PC ad. Just as the argument starts to get annoying to the viewer, a penguin comes in and starts pecking the other 2 off the screen. "Linux: The OTHER PC"
Another option is any one of those really annoying Microsoft ads. Just as the guy starts raving about how he can line up 2 Windows, the penguin mentions his PC was added to a bot net during the commercial before pecking him off the screen. "Linux: The OTHER PC"
Or maybe you could have a "Project: Sahara", where everyone is raving about the new version of Windows, how fast and secure it is, and many applications it has, when it is revealed they are running Ubuntu.
"Be grateful for what you have. You may never know when you may lose it."
I'm an anteater!
the fact that Linux users making a video about using Linux don't have a decent tool to edit their videos with is kind of a drag...
OpenShot runs in Linux and I am positive you could edit a commercial in it
http://www.openshotvideo.com/
*We are Linux* Buy the same hardware that we use for develop our OS or die. ;) Well at least is the same answer you get when you ask for help in several Linux forums so this is not a lie ;)
It's like the special olympics ... just entering makes you a retard.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Sadly, the winner will almost certainly be edited in Final Cut Pro on a Mac ;)
No, the winner will almost certainly be edited in Blender on Linux, just like "Elephants Dream", "Big Buck Bunny" or "Sintel".
Good news.. I now want to get my hands into the old forgotten cyberlink video creator.