[plug] Linux demo

[Michael Collard]

Thankyou very much for the feedback. There is a fair bit of work to go
and I can change any part of it with the application I'm using
(Cinelerra), probably will end up changing lots of it...

If its not much trouble I would like to get some screenshots of various
desktops from us pluggers to include. Have to work out a number of
things still :)

And to answer Daniel's question, I will be making a number of formats so
it can be played on anything. Just I prefer OGG & OGM is all :)

Kind Regards
Michael Collard

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 03:43, Onno Benschop wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 00:28, Michael Collard wrote:
> 
> > Got lots to go on it so far so I would almost demand feedback :)
> 
> 
> Cool.
> 
> Now for the feedback you demanded :-) I'm sure that there is more to
> say, and I hope that you don't read this as negative feedback - you've
> gotten off your arse to do this, I'm sitting here critiquing you from
> the comfort of my lounge-room...
> 
>       * What's with the squiggles / old film noise over Tux?
>       * The idea of the many faces of Linux is good, but showing logos
>         distributions here is pointless, you're better off showing how
>         or where it's being used.
>       * The bits of the words that flash up (security/flexibility/etc.)
>         when over the top of Tux, leave those bits lingering - if you
>         actually made the lingering part a word, that would be cool,
>         otherwise the effect is pointless
>       * The games are OK, but I wouldn't show you selecting "Death
>         Match", that sort of ruins the tone.
>       * I'm not in favour of Wolfenstein as an example either...
>       * Sound track is excellent.
>       * Idea is there, but I get the feeling that you're not sure who
>         your audience is. If you picture your audience, keep going back
>         to who they are when you decide what to include.
>       * The many distributions is a nice idea (just not in that spot),
>         but I'd make the logos larger and try to incorporate them more
>         into the movie, rather than have little boxes on the screen. (I
>         don't mean stick them everywhere, I mean make them visually more
>         part of the frame.)
>       * The highlighting of the Microsoft Trade Mark heading dates your
>         movie - who's to say that it will stay that way.
>       * The idea of Freedom needs to be expanded - you need to talk
>         about what freedoms...
>       * The browsing is a nice idea, but if I was watching this, I'd
>         want to know about Office, Email, Web in that order.
>       * You need to talk about Open Source.
>       * You need to give some idea of how much software is out there.
>       * In the distributions, there are some missing...
>       * Talk about schools / governments / municipalities / companies
>         using this stuff.
>       * Talk about user groups.
>       * Talk about support.
>       * Talk about *why* it is that you're so excited about Linux...
> 
> Onno Benschop 
> 
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