[Cialug] This is Linux

[Todd Walton]

The "I'm Linux" video contest has ended.

http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1261
http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1271

Playful, cool:
http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1154

Creepy, would make me cower and hide from Linux:
http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1262

And! The winner:
http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1106

I have to join with the prevailing dissenting opinion, which is to say
I don't like the videos.  I think a video could have been done that
would have done some kind of justice to Linux., but none of these
quite fit it.  What I was hoping for is something that emphasized the
plurality of Linux.  So, maybe an ad that focuses more on community
and livelihood.

This ad, from many years back, is better IMO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwL0G9wK8j4

But it's still too *refined*.  I mean, Linux is not refined.  Refined
is for shiny black boxes.  Not only is Linux going to break once in a
while, but it *should*, with all the hands in the pot making it
better.  It's only truth in advertising to let people know that Linux
can be painful.

So, not that I necessarily could do better, and I didn't put my camera
where my mouth is, but how about... an ad shot in live action
amateurish video in which a bunch of geeks are in a room all standing
around crackin' jokes and tinkering with something.  And suddenly the
something stands up and starts haltingly walking.  Somebody with a
look of horror on his face cries, "It's alive!".  Black screen, white
letters: "It's Linux".  Cut back to the geeks still in the room,
crowded around the open door and looking out.  Somebody says "Oh shit.
 It's loose."

-todd