May 31st, 2011 byAt UDS in Budapest we held a session on the idea of a toolkit for community members. It would allow anyone excited enough to show off and celebrate their use and love of Ubuntu. As you can see from the notes there were a lot of ideas and one of the first activities was to create a YouTube channel celebrating Ubuntu.
Last week we did exactly that and you can now head over to www.youtube.com/celebrateubuntu right now! Go on, head over. I’ll be here when you get back … that was quick 
Related to this as part of the 11.04 release I worked on a video for Ubuntu.com with our web team. Intended for the features page it shows off some of the new goodness that has made it into this release. I should also say a special thanks to Jason from the Novacut project who stepped in and helped right at the end. We couldn’t have done it without you chap! Thanks!
This video and the toolkit conversation got us thinking. Everyone has their own favourite aspect of Ubuntu. The thing that makes it great for them. The thing that makes them smile when they use their computer. The thing that makes them wonder why anyone would use anything else!
So make us a video that tells the world what your favourite part of Ubuntu is.
Step 1: Come up with your ultimate Ubuntu feature and how you might make a video of it. What’s the story? Will a viewer “get it”?
Step 2: Make your video and post it up on your favourite video sharing website/ Ubuntu One/ anywhere you can put the file send it to me!
Step 3: Just like any internal design project we’ll get our Brand Lead Marcus Haslam to have a look and the ones we think make the grade will be posted on our channel for the world to see!
We’ll be looking at these throughout the Oneiric cycle, blogging and promoting the ones we think are great so there’s no deadline as such.
Get creative, enjoy and together let’s celebrate Ubuntu!
The toolkit
10 Responseshide comments
The Youtube link is incorrect
Oops, I’ve updated it, thanks!
and the ubuntu one link
Cools videos, but english only, it’ would be great if you can translate to another language and LoCo use it for events
We’re working on it Luciano! We’re trying to find a straight forward way of localising but if you can think of one please do let me know!
Great videos, it would be awesome to see something like this integrated into the ubiquity installer to replace the slideshow. if the success of mac has proven anything its that users care more about polish than most things
The popularity of Ubuntu will depend on the support of games.
Hi, I am new to Ubuntu and in terms of design the OS is pretty slick except in one little annoyance : the icon set.
The icons feel like they are from the initial days of Ubuntu. They feel like they were made for children, almost a cartoon like feel. I would be must pleased if you redsign the icons set with a brand new and futuristic feeling like your awesome Ubuntu font.
Thanks and keep up the excellent work.
I don’t know if anybody still reads the comments on this post, but I was wondering if you could tell me what programs were used to create the “Introducing Ubuntu” and “Choose Ubuntu” videos.
Thank you!
Anthony: Somebody reads the comments! Somebody even tries to reply to them all!
To your question about the tools used in production of the videos on the Celebrate Ubuntu Youtube channel, I can’t give you a definite answer, because I don’t know (the production of these videos was subcontracted outside of Ubuntu/Canonical).
My hunch is that it’s very likely that Adobe/Avid/* or similar were used—please see the related discussion on this long reply about the creative tools various people in the design team use. Perhaps there might be some metadata in the video files that would allow you to fingerprint them and find this out?
If the production tools used by the subcontractor are really important I can try to find out but it’ll take a while; in the mean-time tools I’d recommend looking at are:
Is that useful? There should be packages/PPAs for all of the above available, and perhaps you even know better!