The Linux Foundation Video Site:: LINgo

User-submitted video from The Linux Foundation Video Site

http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1293

Two IT guys converse in a covert lingo, but the code has been compromised.

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• Linux
• TheLinuxfoundation

[djcavanaugh]

This is so unrealistic!

An oppressive IT department locks down a Windows machine?

Meanwhile, the arrogant help desk fails to solve the problem (that they probably created). Even worse, they fail in their desire to flirt with the girl.

This never happens! All joking aside, this is a sad commentary on what the IT industry has become. Geeks went from pathetic to cool, only to reverse the process.

[zantrua]

lol, anyone who knew what the were saying would fix there own damn sys...

[hozelda]

There is an audience that would find this attractive.

Sure, I agree.. change the script some, adjust the acting, use better production equipment, etc.

The Linux Foundation contest was a great push. Expect some of these seeds to have a future. Expect the LF push to help move Linux to the next level.

"Even" this commercial has hope.

Remember, FOSS is about letting you "have it your way". It's not about 1 or 10 commercials or faces. It's about 1 billion of them to satisfy its 1 billion faces.

[stemcellfilms]

okay I get why people don't like these commercials... but yeah as a linux user I personally appreciated this....

I get that telling people that linux people are an insular clique of aged nerds isn't marketing though, I get that...

[b0rk3d]

Yay make videos that make Linux look stupid. Maybe we'd have a desktop in 10 years.

[hozelda]

Supporting websites can accumulate Linux+multimedia video howtos.. even leveraging some of the commercials as a running theme throughout the particular lesson/tutorial.

Teach something useful and that can be used to support a fun group activity, and you will attract people.

[hozelda]

A website can keep track of the "forks".. the tree of relationship that get created as users contribute. Each mashup can be voted on from that website. You can also see which videos would be related to which other.

A contest (or more than one) could stipulate a number of interesting rules/restrictions.

Engage the audience. Give everyone their 15 minutes of fame. And make sure to maintain statistics and relationships as these make things more interesting.

[hozelda]

The Linux Foundation should consider requiring certain licenses from the commercial (including source code) if this is not the case already. The value of FOSS is in allowing new people to take existing works and "make it their own".

Let's play "phone" with these commercials to see what we end up with at the end.

Also, a marketing campaign leveraging this would try to encourage bloggers and other participants to keep coming back to look/mock/extend/play with these things.

[hozelda]

rabidben demonstrates a good point about how people generalize irrationally. This commercial would have to be done more professionally and have the dialog rescripted if it were going to be shown to many people. The elements of this commercial would have to evolve as well.

The best use of "by users" commercials is not to put as a Super Bowl ad. There are many ways to leverage community contributions to spark interest and engage the audience.

[rabidben]

I think that pretty much sums up Linux users.