[Advocacy] Re: spreadopenmedia.org is (almost) alive

[Jon Phillips]

Go ahead and post on the about page and then send the link for the live
editing :)

Jon

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 01:19 +0100, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
> On 7/8/07, Cameron Parkins <cameronparkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Any presentations/definitions you guys have, please send my way. It'll
> > surely make the announcement more well rounded.
> 
> I have written the following text to be used on some kind of About
> page.  Not only does it state what SOM is, its mission, and what it
> offers to people, but also explain what OM formats are all about.
> Throughly and short, I think.  If you guys agree with it, I'll also
> make a PT translation.
> 
> And Cameron, feel free to use whatever you think worthy for the announcement.
> 
> Spread Open Media is the one web site where you'll find everything you
> need to know about the media formats that will help build a better
> world.  And if you believe in our cause, you may want to tell everyone
> you know about those new formats, because ignorance is their worst
> enemy.  So come join the fight to free the content you care from the
> corporations that want to restrict your rights and lock your files.
> 
> On SOM you will find campaigns to join, advertisement material to use,
> tutorials to help your friends, a database of products that work with
> Open Media formats, and a directory of cool stuff to watch or listen
> to.
> 
> Open Media formats allow for innovation, quality, and freedom.
> Through them, and only thorugh them, do projects like Wikipedia and
> Creative Commons make sense.  Through them, and only through them,
> will video and audio work across the web as smoothly as images do now.
>  It's time to promote them.  It's time to Spread Open Media.
> 
> -Ivo
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