---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Holmes Wilson campaigns@fsf.org Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:20 AM Subject: [FSF] Why is free software important to you? Submit your response to our new video campaign! To: info-fsf@gnu.org, info-member@gnu.org

The FSF is launching a new advocacy campaign, and we'd love to have you involved.

One of the most important tasks for us at FSF is to help foster the understanding that free software is crucial to a free society, and that citizens should switch to free software at home and in their own work, for freedom's sake.  But in many ways, most of this work has always been done by the millions of free software users around the world, telling others why they care about free software and what they use it for.

So, why not make all that energy, specificity, and persuasion part of our message to the world on FSF.org?  And what better way to do it than with videos from free software supporters, published using free formats and an exciting new free standard for online video?

In 2-5 minutes, using a camcorder, digital camera, or webcam, you can create a video about why you or a friend love free software. Then submit your video and invite friends to do the same!

Submission guidelines:

* http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/video_testimonial_guidelines/

At the Women in Free Software Summit and the Boston celebration of Software Freedom Day 2009, FSF volunteer Dana Moser roved the event asking participants the following questions, and making videos of the responses:

* "What do you do with free software?" * "Why do you like free software?" * "Why is software freedom important to you?"

Blog post with Dana's videos:

* http://www.fsf.org/news/video_testimonials_campaign/

Direct links to the video files:

* http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/what_like_sm.ogv * http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/important_sm.ogv

More about Dana:

* http://curiousart.org/resume.html

We look forward to watching your contributions!

Thanks,

Holmes Wilson

Free Software Foundation

P.S. We've been collecting written testimonials for a while -- check out the link below.  If you'd like to submit a written testimonial, email testimonials@fsf.org.

* http://www.fsf.org/resources/testimonials

If you'd also like to put up a short video to be part of our end of year fundraising campaign, instructions are here:

* http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/year-end-fundraising-videos/

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