The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is looking for content, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase
The want to "show off free culture artists" and want audio and video under CC-BY-SA - I'm not sure we have much to offer them (do we?), but I suppose we'd be interested in at least of some of the submittions. So... maybe we could strike up some sort of collaboration? A Project on commons to make/collect/suggest content for them? Or ask them to tell people about commons?
I'm wondering if the content they want is really stuff we don't want (your neighbours garage band), or maybe stuff that could be extremely usefull to use ("example of a trumpet solo")? what do you think?
-- Daniel
PS: I think they could showcase a collection of backdrops and screensaver images from commons, btw :)
2008/8/5 Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de:
The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is looking for content, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase
The want to "show off free culture artists" and want audio and video under CC-BY-SA - I'm not sure we have much to offer them (do we?), but I suppose we'd be interested in at least of some of the submittions. So... maybe we could strike up some sort of collaboration? A Project on commons to make/collect/suggest content for them? Or ask them to tell people about commons?
We've got both types of files but the size limit may be problematical.
geni wrote:
We've got both types of files but the size limit may be problematical.
My question was rather if we have interesting original artwork suitable for showcasing "free culture artists", as opposed to illustrative samples of whatever. I mean... do we? I didn't look :)
-- daniel
2008/8/5 Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de:
My question was rather if we have interesting original artwork suitable for showcasing "free culture artists", as opposed to illustrative samples of whatever. I mean... do we? I didn't look :)
I'd say some of our featured pictures are in with a chance. The photographs are usually intended first and foremost as illustrative, but I'd certainly call some of them artistic - have a look through, for example, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures/Natural_phenomen...
Andrew Gray schrieb:
I'd say some of our featured pictures are in with a chance. The photographs are usually intended first and foremost as illustrative, but I'd certainly call some of them artistic - have a look through, for example, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures/Natural_phenomen...
I think they would be great to be featured as backdrops of screensavers in some linux distro, but this challange asks for audio on video only. the fact that our pictures arn't used more amazes and frustrates me a bit. few of the linux people seem to have picked up on it, really.
-- daniel
2008/8/5 Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de:
geni wrote:
We've got both types of files but the size limit may be problematical.
My question was rather if we have interesting original artwork suitable for showcasing "free culture artists", as opposed to illustrative samples of whatever. I mean... do we? I didn't look :)
-- daniel
Yes.
Videos:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Alexandria_folk_dancing.ogg
Sound well we have various music recordings
Images yes most of our featured images have a artistic element or there is the old standby http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Glasses_800_edit.png
There have also been a number of paintings and the like released under free licenses.