[Inkscape-board] Re: VOTE: Release Video Budget

Dear All, Marc wanted some clarrification and asked the vectors this question: "Do you, as the vectors team, feel like the release videos Chris does, are useful for outreach ? would you qualify them as an important asset for advertizing newest Inkscape version and features ? as an essential tool that we should always do ? Thanks for any comment on this, both in general for yearly releases, and in the specific case of the incoming 1.2 new features, if the answer is different." I'm forwarding the vector's team responses: Moini: "useful - agree. important - agree. essential - no, the only things really essential are downloadable files and some way of informing the public about their existence (social media, news article, whatever)" Lazur: "yes, imho visual cues are more essential than any article, the screen generations attention span is down to 20 seconds" Ryan: "I think video in general is good. I'd like Chris to make a video, but if I think a video highlighting what Inkscape is and how it's different, that could live on the home page of the website, would be much more valuable. Follow on videos showing people how to contribute to the project, would be valuable too, but probably shouldn't be completely animated. The incremental improvements to the software, while neat, are speaking to our current audience, not necessarily growing it. I'm pretty sure we get a lot of stray visits to the home page from people who don't really understand why Inkscape is free and why they should get excited about that. Just my $0.02. I'd like to have a release video for 2.0 though. The 1.0 release video got 71k views. The 1.1 got 12k." Michele: "I love our release videos! They inspire creativity and imagination. They rock! Period. They are useful for outreach, an important asset for advertising and fairly essential to the process of big releases. Video is a bit of a king these days, certainly a powerful first-contact medium. That said, Inkscape would certainly benefit from more evergreen videos - not necessarily animated. I can see the potential in an animated evergreen explanation of the Inkscape project. Exciting to consider being able to invest in these kinds of tools for promotion and education around the project, open source and to contribute." Best Regards, Martin Owens On Tue, 2021-12-14 at 14:57 -0500, Martin Owens wrote: