Georg C. F. Greve schrieb:
The last time I checked I found it impossible to simply view many of the videos on YouTube with Free Software, so my evaluation of the site stopped right there.
Has this changed?
I don't use YouTube and I don't know about the formats of the content posted on it. I think it's Flash and maybe it can be viewed with a free flash player. GNASH comes to my mind, but I didn't test it yet.
I suggested it, because it seams to have a nice structure of categorizing it's content through categories and tags.
There are probably two problems with using YouTube:
1) YouTube is only for videos, not for transcripts, audio files, etc.
2) I suppose their terms of use will be too restrictive. But I didn't check.
If these problems would not exist using YouTube could have some advantages:
1) We don't have to spend resources to implement our own system.
2) Putting content about Free Software on YouTube would be a good channel for distribution even outside of the FSFE community.
I suggested it, because I thought it could provide some inspiration for who will implement the system on the fellowship site.
Happy hacking! Patrick