[Cc-webedit] [Fwd: Using Free software]

[theinnercityhippy at riseup.net]

i agree. Since it's been proposed to have an open discussion and a
proposal about wide scale adoption of open source software for anything
related to cc at the next meeting, in which i was going to raise very
similar concerns, i propose that any development on the new site waits
until after the next national gathering or takes the need for non
commercial and open source implementations of software into account across
the board.

I also couldn't use the live site and was meant to be relying on it for
dispatch. That's no slur on it's quality, you guys did a fantastic job in
a very short space of time, just that it wasn't compatible with linux.

Jimdog

> A good point well made. Would be great if this feedback could be taken
> into consideration for the new CCTV website when it's done.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> From: vedmore <vedmore at gmail.com>
>> To: website at climatecamp.org.uk
>> Subject: Using Free software
>> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1904 17:20:35 +0000
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I noticed that you are only offering flash on site. As a Free software
>> (see http://www.gnu.org/ and some one that tries to keep my older
>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html)  PPC computer useful and
>> out of landfill  this makes it very difficult to view your movies. I
>> understand many main stream users confuse free as in cost with free as
>> in liberty. But it would be nice if you could show some solidarity with
>> ethical software users by adding a link to free versions of your movies
>> and sound files. That's ogv and ogg. As you probably know theora is the
>> movie file. vorbis the sound file.
>> http://www.vorbis.com/
>> http://www.theora.org/faq/
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora
>> http://people.xiph.org/~greg/video/ytcompare/comparison.html
>>
>> As of Firefox 3.5 these formats can be played natively without the need
>> for plugins. I'd have a go at converting the original files for you if
>> required it.
>> http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/07/native-ogg-vorbis-and-theora-support-added-for-firefox-31/
>>
>> If it's not possible could you at least provide a direct link rather
>> than embedded flash.
>>
>> It would be really cool if ethical software could be used in your
>> ethical campaign
>>
>> Thank for you time Andy Vedmore
>>
>>
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