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Videos from the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

[Posted May 16, 2008 by corbet]

The Linux Foundation has posted a series of videos from the Collaboration Summit held in Austin. There's a bunch of interesting stuff there, but, unfortunately, the videos are in Flash format and, thus, will not collaborate well with a lot of Linux systems. The word from the Foundation is that the company hired to do the video work wasn't able to figure out how to produce the final result in an open format.

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Posted May 16, 2008 17:11 UTC (Fri) by sylware (subscriber, #35259) [Link]

ffmpeg -i foo.flv -vcodec libtheora -acodec libvorbis foo.ogg

Videos from the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

Posted May 17, 2008 14:36 UTC (Sat) by stock (subscriber, #5849) [Link]

 
The Linux Foundation was founded in 2007. Well that can happen folks.  
Late starters always join when everything works fine, even multimedia  
on Linux, so no need to re-invent some essential Linux skills. Somehow  
the Dilbert's of this world always know what is wrong but never know  
how to fix it. Which brings me to my question, why would Dilbert all of  
a sudden start promoting a thing like Linux : 
 
"Linux/Unix " 
http://dilbert.com/fast/ 
 
Ohh, Linux/Unix is associated with fast! How cool, they simply skip the 
Flash/Video from the cartoon and suddenly this thing starts moving  
again! LOL :)))

Videos from the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

Posted May 20, 2008 4:17 UTC (Tue) by daniel (subscriber, #3181) [Link]

Video posted in flash format...  is Linux Foundation ever going to get a clue?  Might as well
give away XBox 360s as door prizes at the next Linux conference.

On the other hand, the whole "summit" concept in Linux is more than a little Dilbertesque, so
maybe they should just keep posting flash videos and throw a few powerpoint presentations out
there for good measure.