Re: [libreoffice-marketing] voiceovers for LibOCon

Hi :)
OMG that looks excellent!  I think you gave us a link to that particular one a 
few months ago and in English?  I think it's easier to talk about LibreOffice 
without saying the name OpenOffice quite so much now but back then it was fairly 
vital.  


I gave a wrong impression earlier.  I often heavily criticise things i do really 
like.  Drew's videos look excellent and i appreciate it's difficult to force a 
good mix of people if the events themselves don't have the diversity.  Where i 
work there is a good variety but everyone else refuses to use non-MS.  I don't 
have skills in video or sound and am stretching myself to even use images.  Also 
i'm not great at working with people otherwise everyone at work would have 
switched to LibreOffice months ago.  


Would the Vietnamese chap be willing to work at this?  If there are other videos 
anything like the quality of Drew's in other countries then sampling a few of 
them and putting it together might just completely solve the diversity problem.  
Does the Vietnamese chap speak English?  If so then please send me his email 
address off-line in a personal email.  


Regards from
Tom :)




________________________________
From: Drew Jensen <drew@baseanswers.com>
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Mon, 25 July, 2011 15:26:43
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] voiceovers for LibOCon

On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 15:01 +0100, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> I think people have already addressed everything i could think of to worry 
> about.  I don't follow IIRC so i don't know what decisions have been taken but 

> what has filtered through to the mailing lists looks good and positive.  
>
>
> I worried that mp3 was the jpg of sound but i have been "reading up" about it  

> and it seems a lot of the lossy part is beyond normal human hearing range so 
> it's not as bad as i thought.  I worried the M part might signify a proprietary 
>
> format but if it is it's not owned by MS apparently.  
>
>
> TDF shows almost no visible sign of ethnic or gender diversity.  There are 
> seldom females in the videos, there is almost no ethnic diversity or age range 

> and no-one a natural suit-wearer or fashion-victim.  There is sometimes a range 
>
> of accents and languages which is the only indication of TDF's natural 
> diversity.  We alienate everyone that is not a male WASP between about 24 to 45 
>
> and wearing  a t-shirt.  However some of the best people in TDF are ladies; 
> Sophie, Barbara, Jean, Hal and so on.  The problem is not going to be made 
> particularly worse by voice-overs but if the voice-overs could be done by a 
> lady 
>
> or a mix of voices then that might help.  

Excellent points - so are you volunteering to work on this with
us..really. 

For example the most professional video(s) so far are coming out of
Vietnam, I'd love to dub the latest to English and that idea has been
sitting languishing on my personal todo list for a while - would you
help do the leg work to make that happen.

http://vimeo.com/24069278

Would you take that on please - all I need at this point is contact with
the creator and an ok to generate a transcript...of course if they could
supply a Vietnamese copy that would help and English, well that would be
gold - but I haven't written an email - could I ask you to do that,
please.

Best wishes,

//drew


-- 
Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+help@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

-- 
Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+help@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted