This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive.

This series of 5 segments features Lindependence 2008 Organizer Larry Cafiero passing out fliers for an Lindenpendence 2008 event that evening, July 15, 2008. Lindependence 2008 is an event planned by Larry Cafiero and Ken Starks (aka Helios) to persuade a town of 6,000 people to try out Free Open Source Software for one week, starting July 28, 2008. On July 13 and 15, 2008, there were town meetings at the Felton Presbeterian church on Highway 9 in the small California town of Felton for the purpose of familiarizing people with GNU-Linux, and helping them with any issues that they might have in using Linux.

In these 5 segments, we see Larry Cafiero, his daughter (in an orange shirt) and GNU-Linux wizard Daniel Gimpelevich walking down Highway 9 in Felton from the Helios Solutions West office, where this footage departs, to the farmers market one quarter of a mile down the road. The group divides up to distribute fliers on both ends of the farmers market, with Daniel in the shade and Larry braving it in the bright afternoon sun. The camera passes a band of two people playing beautiful Irish music and then follows Larry over to his spot in the sun. Larry is a natural with the people of Felton. It is entertaining to see him brim over with enthusiasm for his project, an effort that he worked on tirelessly for several months in advance of this day. Now here we are on the day of the installfest, and Larry is still at it, working to bring in more people to see a novel technology, Free Open Source Software. After Larry leaves the farmers market, the series ends with random b-roll which will cut into voice-over segments. All of this is set against the backdrop of the gorgeous Santa Cruz county redwood forest in the distance.

This video will be cut into the Digital Tipping Point film as an example of some of the social activism that is bringing Free Open Source Software into the public consciousness. Marketing for Free Open Source Software takes several forms, both in the form of commercial marketing, such as for the Asus EEE PC, which runs on Linux or IBM marketing its IT services by using the Linux Tux penguin; and in the form of social outreach, such as the work of Larry Cafiero and his fellow social activist Ken Starks, who blogs as helios. The DTP is a study of the various ways that these commercial and non-commercial efforts will bring about a sudden and dramatic change in the way that people use computers, and how those changes will alter global culture, making it more flat and democratic.

Some of these segments stop abruptly, due to the fact that we are using dvgrab with default settings to capture footage. Dvgrab chunks out video into 4.51 minute segments equalling 1 GB by default. There is a saying in the Free Open Source Software society: "Let the code decide". We have let the code decide the default file size for most of the footage up here on the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection.

This footage is raw, rough edited video. It is our source code. It has no music, no transitions, and no special effects. It is offered to the world as the raw material for you to make your own movie about Free Open Source Software.

If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at einfeld@gmail.com. Your work will be credited and posted on this page.

The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt at digitaltippingpoint.com.

Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here:

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and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 002, Larry Cafier farmers market
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