Distributing copies of Trisquel at an Anime convention.
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Recently I read a blogpost about Ubuntu copies that were distributed at an Anime convention. (http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/11/can-ubuntu-reach-over-16000-anime.html) Kẏra, who wrote the blogpost, now works for the FSF and fights against DRM. I plan to distribute copies of Trisquel at one or more Anime conventions.
These copies will include Blender, Synfig, Darktable (a free replacement for Photoshop Lightroom) and some free music tools including lauloid that am currently working on.
Lauloid is a free replacement for the nonfree VOCALOID and UTAU softwares. It is based on the "open source [sic] C library that implements SMS techniques for analysis, transformation and synthesis of musical sounds based on a sinusoidal plus residual model." The Music Technology Group released the library that contains the core of VOCALOID signal processing under the GPL.
I know that there are Anime Fans who dislike DRM, so it could be worth trying to convince them to use Free Software. This includes to teach them to use my free replacement for the popular nonfree software VOCALOID.
This might sound weird, but you might want to consider not distributing Gnash with it, or disabling Gnash by default. I'm sure a lot of Japanese cartoon fans watch at least some of them online, from various streaming websites. Most of them simply will not work without Flash, but a significant number of them have fallback HTML5/Javascript players that will be used if Flash is not detected.
I wouldn't agree with this.
Without gnash, many youtube videos won't work, since html5 is not available for every video.
And I don't believe that a significant number of these anime streaming websites will switch to html5 if no flash is installed (I never encountered such a page though I like animes).
So I think gnash does more good than bad.
When I heard anime + free software this came to mind
This reminds me of "back in the day" when MKV came out and gained traction due Anime fans loving it for the flexibility of the format (embedded subtitles and multiple tracks) and distribution on file sharing networks.
I won't distribute gnash.
Instead I will distribute the viewtube scripts and several free browsers.
Abrowser as the default browser and Qupzilla as a fallback browser for H.264.
Most sites that can be viewed on an iPad use that format.
To use SoundCloud service without any proprietery software I had to modify the user agent string, so that SoundCloud thinks that I use an iPad. Flash is required on other platforms. I used the midori browser that uses Apple WebKit.
I do know about morevna and distribute the morevna tools.
PS:
Recently I mailed Tim Cook that I won't buy the new iPad Mini.
Instead I will buy a Flying Squirrel:
http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/kde_tablet/news/
I hope that this device meets the Respects Your Freedom hardware product certification criteria
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