Promotional and explanatory video (WeUseCoins style)

[Deafboy]

I was just thinking recently about how weusecoins video helped with promotion of bitcoin in the past. As far as I know, there is no such video for Namecoin.
If we want people to know and understand the countless possibilities of NMC, we have to present it in a simple and accessible way.

I have no previous experience with this kind of work, but I found this simple to use toolkit for Adobe After Effects.

I'll also try to contact Weusecoins people and see if they are willing to provide us with material from their original video.
I'd prefer if all material is available under some permissive license, but If we for some reason cannot use weusecoins materials, I'll buy the license for toolkit mentioned above. It's like 7,4 NMC at the moment anyway

Next I'm going to write a basic script containing the introduction and explanation of basic features of NMC and put it online later so anyone can edit it.
Do we have an official working wiki? I heard about some dot-bit replacement currently hosted on github, but everything about NMC development is so messy right now so I'm not sure

What's still missing however, is the good voice actor. I have no clue how to get in touch with this kind of people. If you know someone personally, know where to easily hire them or have anything else to say about this proposal please share your opinion in this topic or on IRC.

[indolering]

Make sure to emphasize the censorship-resistant aspects of Namecoin. The censorship provisions of SOPA, PIPA, and the TPP all rely technologies which Namecoin is designed to get around.

[domob]

I really appreciate your efforts here! While I don't think I'm good with this kind of stuff and don't have enough time, if you have a finished proposal for the script, I'll happily read it and give suggestions. Apart from that, I think that you should indeed focus on the aspects like censorship-resistance (since domain seizures actually are done on a not too small scale, also with political motivations - see wikileaks). Other interesting things: Identities (sharing public keys with human-readable names, NameID-style logins), bonds & shares, .bit TLS to get rid of the flawed current CA system. Not sure how easily all of these can be explained in an introductory video, though.

If you create a good video that gets the approval of the community and is licensed "free" as in freedom (CC BY-SA, not NC; or GNU FDL), I'll put up a bounty of 10 NMC for you. (I know this is not too much for what you want to do, but at least it is a little token of appreciation.)

[indolering]

If you create a good video that gets the approval of the community and is licensed "free" as in freedom (CC BY-SA, not NC; or GNU FDL), I'll put up a bounty of 10 NMC for you. (I know this is not too much for what you want to do, but at least it is a little token of appreciation.)

Go file a ticket on the Namecoin repo and throw the bounty on BountySource : )

[Deafboy]

Just a quick update. I have started working on a script for the video.
In the first part I'd like to focus on brief introduction (backed by BTC mining power, based on blockchain), and on some of the problems NMC is trying to solve (DNS, SSL, IDs). In the next part I'll try to show how easy it is to use it. Hopefully there will be some tools to easily and reliably resolve domain names before the project is finished

Feel free to contribute, edit, reorganize or remove anything:
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sb8dszwbLf

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Also I'll have a talk about NMC on next local Bitcoin meetup in Bratislava. If everything goes well there will be a wifi hotspot with DNS set-up to resolve .bit domains

[indolering]

Maybe you should try breaking this into a different segments and making a video for each. That way you can do it more piecemeal : )

And I was being serious, create a ticket on Github and then one on BountySource. I would like to get you some real funding but it's much easier to do it this way.

[domob]

And I was being serious, create a ticket on Github and then one on BountySource. I would like to get you some real funding but it's much easier to do it this way.

Ok, the issue is here: https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin.info/issues/11

I tried to create a Bounty on BountySource, but it only allows me to specify the bounty in USD ... at least unless I miss something. Not everyone is living in the US, and especially in this case, I don't even want EUR but instead 10 NMC. Can I just specify an "arbitrary" USD amount and write somewhere that it actually is 10 NMC? How does the payment work upon resolution?

[indolering]

Oh, hey: http://bitfilm.com/

Deafboy, want to get a quote from them?

[biolizard89]

And I was being serious, create a ticket on Github and then one on BountySource. I would like to get you some real funding but it's much easier to do it this way.

Ok, the issue is here: https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin.info/issues/11

I tried to create a Bounty on BountySource, but it only allows me to specify the bounty in USD ... at least unless I miss something. Not everyone is living in the US, and especially in this case, I don't even want EUR but instead 10 NMC. Can I just specify an "arbitrary" USD amount and write somewhere that it actually is 10 NMC? How does the payment work upon resolution?

BountySource holds the bounty money in escrow until the bounty is claimed (or maybe expired?). Right now they only take USD but they're planning on adding Bitcoin via Coinbase. Reportedly this will be out within a week or so.