Re: Video ad for kde - Code in
Carl Symons <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 16 December 2010 14:07:05 James Cain wrote: >> As an aside (this stream-of-consciousness-thinking happens a lot on this >> list, which is great!) on these video ideas, maybe we could even hold a >> contest on the best video submission...hmmmm... I like it! > > Yes, that could be cool > >> And maybe the >> board could sponsor a nice prize for best video submission (How about an >> OpenPC??? :) > > (Personal opinion) I'm not sure if putting up prizes is the best use of e.V. > funds - it raises questions of why one person entering a competition gets to > win some stuff when people contributing in other ways all the time do not get > payment or freebies. Others may disagree :-) I can certainly see the appeal of > a competition though... I agree with Stu on this. > > On the other hand, if an independent company wished to sponsor such a > competition, that is a different issue. So I cc Frank in case OpenPC and/or one > of their hardware partners might be interested - there is also associated > publicity of course (a couple of Dot articles announcing the competition and > the winner, mention of the prize and sponsor on e.g. YouTube video pages). > Nokia could also be worth talking to if we wanted to pursue this, since a > phone with a video camera could also be an appropriate prize (they donated a > prize for the Plasma Javascript Jam session - although also as I understand it > KDE e.V. paid for attendance at a KDE event as a prize too) How about if initial video submissions were intentionally rough drafts? And then some were chosen in an equitable fashion to get resources to polish for final. I'd rather see heartfelt appreciation of KDE than a snazzy video that someone did for a prize. Carl _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.