It might be thought that Erie Looking
Productions only acts in the library world. It might be thought
that Erie Looking Productions only handles a single program and
nothing else. It might be thought that Erie Looking Productions
cannot break out of the LIS cloister.
Wrong!
Erie Looking Productions is acting as media partner for a project
that has nothing at all to do with librarianship. Using what is
known about dealing with librarians, the air staff is assisting a
joint marketing effort between the NGO and Ohio community teams of
the Ubuntu project. The NGO team is attempting to reach out to
non-governmental organizations like the red crosses and crescents
and other to get them to adopt Ubuntu. The Ohio community team is
needing practice with members producing their own audio so that an
Ohio team podcast could be released that would help strengthening
bonds between geographically dispersed team members. Erie Looking
Productions is here to help tie the effort together so that
something akin to the multimedia marketing output relative to the
Bowflex exercise equipment can be created.
Right now we will be using Launchpad to develop the scripting for
this. This allows for collaborative coding already for software
projects. In lieu of changing text files containing programming
code, we will be working with OpenOffice.org Writer files to deal
with scripts. The version control system in use for this will be
bzr.
What's intended as the end product? The joint marketing effort is
intended to create an audio program that presents Ubuntu's
usefulness from a functional point of view rather than spewing
stats. This would be focused on reaching out to those who are
specialists in their own field but not necessarily computer
specialists.
This is looking to be an exciting project that might also allow for
great collaborative opportunities. At least one paper (or at least
a research note) could be written about this relative to using
Launchpad & bzr for collaborative new media production. Other
tools like Basecamp, Citadel, Zimbra, Lotus Notes, and the like do
exist. Since Launchpad is used for development mainly within the
Ubuntu project, we will be sticking with what possible contributors
are already using.
As for a release date, such is not firmly stapled down yet...