[Wftl-lug] Tuxzine

[Christian Einfeldt]

hi,

On 1/8/07, Charles McColm <twccomprec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I once gave 7 PC's with edubuntu to a local Montessori school and I
> recently
> > stopped by to say hi and noted six of them were all now running windows
> 2000
> > and one was still ubuntu, but now a simple file server.  Oh well.  I
> wonder
> > if the computers would have had a fighting chance if I had given them a
> > reference like Moving to Ubuntu (that had not yet been published at that
>
> I'm sending 16 PCs with the Working Centre Linux Project installed on
> them to a school in El Salvador. I think the PCs will probably
> continue to run Linux because we also plan on giving them instructions
> for their computer admins as well as providing them with contacts to
> other schools and organizations in El Salvador that are also running
> Linux. We're trying to keep the community in mind. If they look to
> other schools for Linux help it's a lot better than if they look to
> us.


I think that your ideas here are simply brilliant, and I would like to
document your work in that regard.  I would like to be able to contact those
schools.  It is possible that I will be traveling more frequently in the
upcoming year, and I might be able to get to El Salvador to shoot some
footage.  Or, better yet, it would be wonderful to see if we couldn't get
some footage from them.  I am hoping that we will be able to get video
contributions from others and stitch that footage into our Digital Tipping
Point film.  By the way, the Digital Tipping Point film is not going to be
just one film; it is going to be a series of films that are updated in the
same fashion that FOSS is updated.  Right now, only I can contribute to the
Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection, for technical
reasons, but I am working with the Internet Archive to find a way for others
to contribute video.  I am hoping that we will be able to create an
international film repository there which is logically catelogged so that
anyone who wants to search for footage pertaining to any particular theme
can grab that footage, rip, mix, burn and improve the footage, and then
re-submit it back to the Internet Archive.

If I am not able to do so, then I will need to chose another place to host
the video for the Digital Tipping Point.  I am interested in having more
than one host, anyway, because I don't want to have all of the footage
living in just one place.  The Internet Archive has sufficient redundancy,
with storage in on at least two separate continents, AFAIK, in case of
disaster in one place, their data will live elsewhere; but still, if the
Internet Archive loses funding, it is possible that all that footage could
be lost, and, more important, that our community will have suffered a
setback.

See, my idea behind the Digital Tipping Point has been that the community
creates the code, de-bugs the code, markets the code, and distributes the
code.  Everything that I do is directed toward helping to create public
awareness and useability of FOSS software, because, as I said earlier, IMHO
we have a narrow window of time before Microsoft succeeds in locking down
our entire digital culture in proprietary formats.  So my goal is to help
unbundle the various different processes that Microsoft performs:  they are
the center of a business hub.  We need to create a new, viable center, with
a very rich, diverse, and commerically viable alternative to each of the
discreet functions that Microsoft and its business partners perform.

As one small step in that direction, I am hoping that the Digital Tipping
Point will be one among many repositories of knowledge, video, and
entertainment, sof that we can tell our stories to the world.  We need to
get our stories out to the world.  Joe Sixpack must hear our stories and
understand how important freedom in cyberspace is.  Right now, the average
person doesn't know or care about digital culture, and they just assume that
it's all beyond them, and they are more focused on their daily lives.  We
need to invade their daily lives, and do it is an enterntaining, fun, and
informative way.  IMHO, the best way of doing that is by creating a series
of open, distributed hubs for video, so that they can grab the video and
share it with themselves.  IMHO, we need to expand our community in a steady
fashion, because Microsoft has an IMMENSE network of business partners who
are commercially motivated to support the on-going success of the Microsoft
business hub.  We need to compete with that hub.  We need to be more fun,
more cool, more profitable, faster, cheaper, and more easy to use than the
products and services offered by Microsoft and its business partners.

So the Digital Tipping Point is actually going to be released in a series
code-named after Debian Linux.  So the code name for the first film will be
DTP Buzz; then DTP Rex; then DTP Bo; DTP Hamm; you get it.  I am hoping that
by the time Rex comes out, there will be Digital Tipping Point projects that
I don't even know about, as well as other video projects dedicated to
marketing FOSS.
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