Re: The NetBSD way video
César Gil <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Matthew Mondor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 21:38:42 +0100 > César Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Maybe a link to the page would suffice but, how about asking for >> permission to the owner/s of the video and hosting a copy of it in >> one or several open formats? It looks to me like a very interesting >> resource to educate newcomers about the project. > > That was nice to watch/listen to. The format of the video I could > download using clive was already in ogg theora/vorbis, but the video > site unfortunately made it hard to watch without flash, indeed. > > Since the URL to the actual media file seems to be static, I guess that > linking directly to > http://blip.tv/file/get/Fosslc-20100814__1030__DMS_1150__David_Maxwell__The_NetBSD_Way_processe804.ogg > would also be fine, perhaps? > -- > Matt Very good. However a couple of questions come to mind: - Do we have permission from the author? Is the video under a CC license or similar? - Would it be possible to host, if only, a low resolution copy of the video on netbsd.org or associated mirror? This would be so as not to depend on an external hosting site. César