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["Nicholas Lawson" <nicholas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Ohio,


I am a new producer here in Cincinnati, OH and I am very interested in the
Open Source Community,  as a focus for exploring content. I have very rarely
if ever seen any television programming geared towards any type of
computational concepts and I would like to do some work to be a part of that
change as a member of the Public Media Community here in Cincinnati. 

 

There is a man named ERK that is the Butler County Really Local Community
Team Leader. We are planning on meeting after the 9th of this month to
discuss content that would be of use to both the world of Public Media and
the world of Open Source Software. Both communities to me have similarities
in that they thrive on word of mouth and are niche markets in the public
discourse. 

 

I know that the television model as we know it is changing significantly as
slowly and at an increasing rate people are collecting their media from
portals online such as YouTube and Netflix and iTunes. The whole concept of
tuning in at 5pm to see your programming offered is changing to watching
what you want when you want because you want to. The gatekeepers of
mainstream media are retiring and an entirely new model of content
dissemination is being developed or rather has been developed and my
generation and the generations younger than myself are growing up in and
becoming comfortable in a world where television is not the major purveyor
of media comfort food.

 

I am proposing the creation of pilot content here at Media Bridges for the
purpose of informing the public of Cincinnati and the Media Bridges
Community about the world that you are creating. I believe that what Ubuntu
and Linux and the Public Media Model all have in common is that they thrive
on community organizing and serve to become developed by the group for the
group. I love that. I love it heavily and would like to get feedback from
you, the Ubuntu Community. 

 

What ideas would you like to see explored on a television program for thirty
to sixty minutes? Would you be willing to record yourself discussing ideas
that you feel are important for the purpose of having that content published
on television? What software do you think people overlook in the Open Source
Community and pass over that should be considered more mainstream software?
How do you feel about the Ubuntu Community now , how vibrant is it to you?
Where do you see open source software five years from now? 

 

I would be interested to hear your responses and will be taking any
correspondence that comes from this and bring it to Eric the Butler County
Ubuntu Lead and we will be discussing your responses then after the 9th of
October. 

 

Thank you so much for your hard work and your organizational structure. This
is where the new is and you are making it daily. Thank you.

 

If you feel moved enough by this email please feel free to call me and talk
to me personally. I would dig that heavily.

 

Nicholas Lawson

Ph: 513 312 5204

Em: nicholas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx