[odf-discuss] Malaysia supports ODF and OOo

[Yoon Kit Yong]

Hi Chris,

I will forward your request to the guys at MAMPU, who are spearheading this
in Malaysia. They would be best to be featured in this film!

yk.

2008/5/5 Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com>:

> hi,
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Yoon Kit Yong <yoonkit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was planning to write a blog post on this.
>
>
> that's great!  Also, if you are coming to San Francisco, California, USA,
> and you happen to have time for an interview, I would love to interview
> someone from the Malaysian government about this decision for the Digital
> Tipping Point documentary film.  There is a Malaysian Consul at this
> address, and maybe someone from that Consul could be briefed and be filmed:
>
>
> 201 Clay St
> San Francisco, CA 94111
> Phone: (415) 421-6570
>
> I say San Francisco, because that is where we are located.  We have
> currently exhausted our travel budget, and so would unfortunately not be in
> a position to pay for flights to Malaysia for filming.
>
> The DTP is a film library project and a documentary film project that
> strives to do three things:  1) build a great collection of video about the
> new human renaissance that Free Open Source Software (FOSS) will bring to
> the world; 2) build a movie-in-a-box out of the 5 best hours of that
> footage; 3) create an entertaining, informative documentary out of that
> library.  The film will show how Free Open Source Software is in the process
> of creating an explosion of creativity, literacy, and scientific
> advancement.  The target audience is Windows users.  We want to make the
> film sufficiently fun that even Windows users will be entertained.
>
> We have filmed many dignitaries such as Christian Ude (the Mayor of
> Munich), Hermann-Josef Pelgrim (the Mayor of Schwaebisch Hall), Gilberto Gil
> (the Culture Minister of Brazil), and Luiz Millan Vazquez de Miguel, (the
> Extremaduran Minister of Science, Education), Jimmy Wales, the founder of
> Wikipedia, and Mark Shuttleworth.  Our film is the first feature length
> documentary to be built on-line out of fully forkable footage released under
> a Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license on the Internet Archive.
>
> You can see our raw video here, where we currently have 59 hours of raw
> video.  This video will need to be re-rendered for most applications other
> than casual watching, as it is our "source code".
>
>  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.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yluwoc
>
> Thanks either way for considering my request.
>
> There is an active maillist, subscribed by govt users. Its in Malay, and
> > we'll keep you guys updated when there are more migrations agency by agency.
>
>
> We would be very interested in following this news!  Please post here and
> please also ping me personally, if it would be convenient for you to do so,
> and I will blog about it also!
>
> --
> Christian Einfeldt,
> Producer, The Digital Tipping Point
>
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