We’ve all seen how cool technologies – such as Ruby on Rails – have wowed people through video.

Ubuntu Video is a new blog that can do the same for our favourite operating system. John Little, the site’s creator, hunts down Ubuntu-related movies and links to them using YouTube.

He told The Fridge what motivated him to get the site online:

Video allows us to dispel the old Linux myths: that it’s difficult, command line driven, there are no games for it, that sort of thing. I want Ubuntu users to flood the internet with videos that demonstrate the truth!

John’s even running a competition to find the best in Ubuntu Video. He’s offering $100 to the winner and makes some suggestions as to what you might make:

1. Record your own Ubuntu commercial.
2. Show us how you use Ubuntu in a unique way or place.
3. Record an instructive screencast.
4. Make a mini documentary about free software.
5. Go to a major retailer and ask to by a PC with Ubuntu pre-installed. Take your camera.
6. Show us your linux gaming rig.

Enter the competition at UbuntuVideo.com or get involved in this and similar projects by joining the Ubuntu Marketing mailing list.

More4 News, a Channel4 associate, interviewed Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth recently. The video of the interview is available at the online news story. Mark talks about philanthropy and technology in the interview, and we get to know that he loves the geek culture 🙂

When you’ve made £400m before your 30th birthday -you’d probably want to spend the rest of your days living the highlife.
But not Mark Shuttleworth who made his fortune when he sold off his internet security company four years ago.
Since then, he has given half of it to charity and bought a £13m pound ticket to space station.
Now he’s working hard to create a free software – which he hopes will rival Microsoft. He has given a rare interview to More 4 News.

Update: Jonathan Riddell tells us: The direct link to the video is mms://longurl… (right-click, copy) which can be downloaded using mimms from universe, then played with the w32codecs and mplayer. …If it doesn’t work out of the box 🙂

[Discuss the video on the forums]

Many Ubuntu users have found out that the wealth of knowledge available on the Ubuntu Forums is almost endless, as it seems there is an answer for almost every question. There are also a lot of forum users who contribute amazing guides to the howto section of the forum.

Until now most of this information hasn’t found its way into the documentation that is made available in Ubuntu systems and on the Ubuntu documentation website.

Now, Matthew East has announced a new team to pull the information from the forums and channel it into the documentation.

This team will provide a vital bridge between the mountain of information on the Ubuntu forums and the official Ubuntu documentation.

To find out more details on the new project, including how to contribute, visit https://help.ubuntu.com/community/forum.

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