While in Brazil for FISL 8.0, a film crew with Celepar was wandering around interviewing, filming and taking pictures of the speakers. They found me in the hacking room where keithp and i were sharing a table in quietude. They had a small list of questions to ask me, mostly about KDE, and asked if I would participate in their film project. Of course, I said I would and so they started. But they didn't actually ask me any of their prepared questions. Instead they asked me to say something about the topic of their film: free knowledge. I think the idea was that I'd say a little something about free knowledge and then we'd talk about KDE. Or something like that. Instead I went on a huge ramble about free knowledge, some of the reasons why it is so important and how free software helps ensure free knowledge. Then they asked me what I knew about Celepar, I rambled a bit more, and then all a-smile they packed up their things and thanked me for my time.
The result is this 5:21 of video. Given that I was speaking on my feet (nothing was prepared) I think it came out Ok.
Update!: Fabián was nice enough to encode the video in Ogg format so you don't need proprietary software to view it! Fabián: You rock! The link to the ogg can be found in the comments to this blog entry.
Oh, and as you can see, I'm using capital letters in this blog entry. Don't get used to it though. I'm doing it just so those who whinge about my love affair with the lower case will leave me alone for at least this one entry. ;)
hugs and kisses, aseigo.
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13 comments:
About your last sentence.
That's your blog and you do what you want with it and I totally respect that. With or without capital letters I'll continue to read it but I have to admit this blog entry is far more readable than the other one without the capital letters :) (Yes, unfortunately, english isn't my main language).
I found myself reading your blog entry much more easily than usual. I didn't know why until you mentioned the capital letters though. However, even without capital letters it's often more interesting than other blogs.
And that was some impressive talking. Even when I have well thought out thoughts I have difficulty turning them into comprehensible speech!
I actually like the lowercase letters as typical style thing of Aaron's blogs. :-)
Too bad though, that a video about
free knowledge is available only
in such a closed format :(
Nice impromptu replies! Now try to get it up to this speed.
I didn't even notice until you told you're not typing in all lowercase letters :D
@anonymous: "that a video about
free knowledge is available only
in such a closed format"
the irony did not escape me. =/ hopefully there's a version released unencumbered by flash in a friendly format such as ogg.
@anonymous: "Now try to get it up to this speed."
hehe... i can only aspire to Sulamita's grace, let alone command of the language =)
A lot of people can't pull off that kind of coherence with planned topics, let alone on their feet. Good job :-)
Makes me regret not catching your presentation at a vanlug meeting a while back.
You speak with the confidence that can only come from having an intimate understanding of the topic at hand. You have obviously put a lot of thought into the philosophy behind it. You are a great spokeman for free software, even if you do have defective pinky-fingers. :-)
aseigo: you rock!
Aaron: I've converted it and it's at:
http://www.fabianrodriguez.com/files/video/aseigo-fisl-8.ogg
Very nice interview! Some really good thoughts about why open standards are important!
One thing though, I don't know what Celepar is?
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