[odf-discuss] Linspire's MOOX initiatives

[Christian Einfeldt]

On 7/11/07, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
>
> > we will see a true digital tipping
> > point.  Hence the name for our film.
>
> Speaking of which, how is the film coming?
>


Thanks for asking!  We have loaded 45 hours of fully forkable footage onto
the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection (IA DTP VC).
That brings us to about 12% of our footage.  Not all of our footage will go
onto the IA DTP VC, so we might be about 20% toward our goal of first
building our video library, because that is how we are planning on
collaborating across time zones to build this film.  You can see our raw
video here:

 http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=digitaltippingpoint

Our keyword search index page is located below.  It is the place to go to
find specific persons or themes for our footage.  Your names will show up
here if you have been interviewed, which many of you have been, since, after
all, this is a film about our community!!

http://tinyurl.com/yluwoc

On the one hand, I am somewhat sad that we have not gotten funding yet.  On
the other hand, the real digital tipping point is not as far along as I
thought it would be, either.  My goal is to release the digital tipping
point at a time when the average newbie will have at least heard of "open
source" enough to be able to at least see the relevance of it in their
lives.  I am hoping that the Digital Tipping Point will help be one of the
things that will help push the real digital tipping point over the edge.
Maybe that is too ambitious, but at any rate, it is really labor intensive
and capital intensive to build a film.  We just got another video editor who
has offered to do some rough video editing, and so hopefully that will speed
up our rough video editing.  Also, our lead video editor, Jonathan
Grindstaff, has spent much of the summer traveling with his wife from San
Francisco to their new home in eastern Pennsylvania, and that has hindered
his ability to edit video.  Plus, I have my law practice and I have the
issues with the public school that is going to play a role in the film.  So
we still have lots of work.

We are seeing random people transcribe video, which is nice.  But that is
still coming at a slow rate.

On the other hand, we have had thousands of downloads of our existing
footage, and we have done no professional marketing for the film yet at all,
which is encouraging.  We have had probably about an average of 15 downloads
of each of our 557 segments of 5-minute video clips that are now available,
so that is about 8,355 downloads of 5 minutes, which equals 41,775 minutes
of video viewed, which equals 696 hours of video watched.

Our goal from the beginning has been to increase a video presence for
stories about FOSS, and to that extent, we have succeeded.  But we had hoped
that we would complete the film long ago, which is disappointing.  So we
will just continue on, and we hope to finish the film just as GNU Linux is
hitting about 18% market share on the desktop, so that more people will
actually believe that maybe FOSS does have a chance of breaking the MS
monopoly, so they will want to actually see our film.  Right now, people
still don't have enough basic brand awareness of what FOSS is, or why
freedom matters.  Right now, people are still willing to sell their freedom
for efficiency.
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