apperently I received the answers off-list (see below) and they landed
in my spam-box :/ Anway, I am not completely sure what he is trying to
tell me.
Can someone confirm that the files were replaced, or can someone on our
side just convert the stuff by the means I described and give them the
files?
I think I got a little too technical there. Maybe quality is not the
most important thing here[1].
Can someone prepare the letter, so they have something to hang on there
wall? It seems rather important to them, and although I don't in general
support school rankings and competitions, in this case it might create a
good example to other schools in Russia.
Who should we put as signee on the letter? MK as German head? Karsten as
Prez? Me or Henner as official spokespeople for pdfreaders.org? Any of
the interns as the people doing most of the work right now? Or even
people of the edu team?
→ So many people involved right now ;)
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[1] Why I usually care about this, is because I want to avoid creating
the impression that Open Standards imply worse quality. This is often
caused by reencoding lossy formats…
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Subject: Re: [edu-team] ответ на письмо 10/11/2010 (Antwort auf das
Schreiben 2010.10.11)
Date: Sunday 28 November 2010, 17:20:51
From: МОУ Кромская средняя общеобразовательная школа
KromShkola@ya.ru
To: Hannes Hauswedell
h2@fsfe.org
Hello. Thank you for your help. We have links to free software video.
And other files. We will continue to work in this direction. Expect to
receive your missive. Happy to cooperate.
Sincerely subhead ICT Sharshunov Alexander and the school director
Lyudmila Agoshkova.
> On Sunday 28 November 2010 07:20:50 Ineiev wrote:
> > Hi, Hannes!
> > > IIRC VLC uses ffmpeg's vorbis-encoder, which has a poorer quality
> > > than others.
> > I'm not familiar with these jobs; could you elaborate about better
> > choices?
> Anything which uses libvorbis for encoding should be fine, e.g. the
> command line tool oggenc, or mp32ogg, which should be more user
> friendly. By googling I just found some windows software[1], but I
don't
> know which encoder it uses and it might be proprietary.
> > > I don't know of a user-friendly alternative on Windows, though.
> > I don't think we have to restrict ourselves with Windows.
> > I could do it e.g. on Trisquel 4.0.
> This looks like it does the job[2].
> It uses gstreamer, which is decent quality I think.
> > > In general it would be good to encode from the original source of
> > > course.
> > I think Alexandr may know for which files this can be done. what
are
> > your recommendations about how to do this?
> Well, just take the wav files or higher quality source files for
> encoding.
> > > I think youtube is not that much of an issue, since they are
> > > moving to free formats right now.
> > Good.
> > > However, if you can provide all the links to youtube than I can
> > > check if WebM-Versions are already available (which they could
> > > download and offer directly if desired).
> >
http://www.youtube.com/v/a27HvD5I1wk&hl=ru&fs=1
> >
http://www.youtube.com/v/eg48NvtIxNM&hl=ru&fs=1
> >
http://www.youtube.com/v/fBN4HhdFr9Y&hl=ru&fs=1&;
> >
http://www.youtube.com/v/J9OyJpL3XCw&hl=ru_RU&fs=1&;
> >
http://www.youtube.com/v/KdWOV30NLGI&hl=ru&fs=1
> >
http://www.youtube.com/v/KdWOV30NLGI&hl=ru&fs=1
> They are not available as WebM (yet). You can check by using youtube-
dl
> [3]. Just type in
> youtube-dl -f 43 "URL"
> "-f 43" ist for regular size WebM, "-f 45" is for HD WebM. Once you
have
> the files, you can offer them for regular download on your web-page.
> If you use a current version of Firefox than you can use firefogg[4]
to
> create free format videos, either OGV or WebM.
> As I said, I am not sure if this is crucial, since I expect youtube to
> convert everything sooner or later. What do the others think?
>
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Subject: Re: [edu-team] ответ на письмо 10/11/2010 (Antwort auf das
Schreiben 2010.10.11)
Date: Sunday 28 November 2010, 09:57:57
From: МОУ Кромская средняя общеобразовательная школа
KromShkola@ya.ru
To: Hannes Hauswedell
h2@fsfe.org
Hello.
Thank you for your assistance in converting files from youtube. All
links will necessarily available at Kromskoye secondary school:
http://kromshkola.ucoz.ru/.
Be good if you do not complicate it to convert all other files on our
website and send a link and we will place them on the site. We just have
a problem with some programs. And your help to accelerate their
transformation to this matter. We hope for your understanding and
cooperation. And just be grateful for an official letter of thanks for
our work and appreciated the school site.
Sincerely Deputy Director for Information and Communication Technology
MOU Kromskoye school Sharshunov Alexander.
P.S. School Address:Российская Федерация
303200, Орловская область, п. Кромы, ул. 30 лет Победы, д. 39.
> On Saturday 27 November 2010 19:45:15 Ineiev wrote:
> > Hi!
> Hi Ineiev,
> Thanks for being involved so much with this!
> > They expect our guidelines; can anybody confirm
> > that we can treat the next conversions of the files from
> > the site as recommendations from the FSFE?
> >
> > .doc:
> > convert to PDF (with any program) or .odt (with OpenOffice
Writer)
> > .xls (the results of examinations):
> > convert to PDF (with any program)
> > .ppt .pptx:
> > convert to .odp (with OpenOffice Impress)
> > .rar:
> > repack into .zip; convert the contents if needed
> > .mp3:
> > convert to OGG Vorbis (with VLC)
> IIRC VLC uses ffmpeg's vorbis-encoder, which has a poorer quality than
> others. I don't know of a user-friendly alternative on Windows,
though.
> In general it would be good to encode from the original source of
> course.
> > Also, I need to know how we should deal with
> >
http://kromshkola.ucoz.ru/uroki/__.pps and YouTube videos.
> I think youtube is not that much of an issue, since they are moving to
> free formats right now.
> However, if you can provide all the links to youtube than I can check
if
> WebM-Versions are already available (which they could download and
offer
> directly if desired).
>
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