After reading Jef’s post a short while ago I’ve been thinking about things we could do that would encourage creative people to use Fedora, to use free software tools for the creation of their work. Ultimately, I guess the goal is to try and build a community of people who will become passionate about using free software in their creative work, and who will help improve it So, a few thoughts:

1. Showcasing work created via free software tools, such as Jef’s webcomic idea, is a great way to get some attention and interest, not just in Fedora but in free software generally
2. While hosting could be a problem, there are lots of existing sites that we could create “fedora” tags on and aggregate via news.fp.o, or some other such site when we have the infrastructure in place, also archive.org could be an interesting solution
3. There’s no need to start from scratch – already there exists a number of communities who, with a little persuasion, would probably be quite interested in coming and working with us – especially if they can get their work show cased as above
   1. Creative Commons – already we have a relationship with them, and they have a large following of creators who care passionately about free culture, free software is a logical extension
   2. Red Hat High – started introducing students to creative arts through free software, why not follow up with previous students and invite them to continue working with free software tools in a healthy and supportive community, i.e. Fedora :p – what about getting some curriculum stuff from here that we can document properly to help new users get started too
   3. Fedora Art Team – we all know they rock, and I’m sure they’re all interested in show casing some of their other, less release focused work, from time to time
   4. Get upstream developers involved – if we can give them a platform to show case what their software can do, they may well be interested in working with us to create cool stuff

This isn’t very well thought out, but I do love Jef’s idea, and I certainly like the idea of trying to get ex-Red Hat High people on board too!