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Prizes? T-shirts, fatheads, etc. We could have different types of prizes, e.g. "Most creative video," "most informative," etc. Suggestion to give ''something'' to anyone who submits a video that ends up in the knowledge base.
Prizes? T-shirts, fatheads, etc. We could have different types of prizes, e.g. "Most creative video," "most informative," etc. Suggestion to give ''something'' to anyone who submits a video that ends up in the knowledge base.


== Technical Requirements ==
We can either do it the simple way, or the cool way. Therefore, this document contains the minimum requirements as well as optional, extra requirements. 
=== Minimum requirements ===
* A main contest page with
**A project description
**A large button to participate in the contest with e.g. the text "Create your own videos!"
**Two or three "featured" submissions. We could handle this manually by editing the page. (Lucy pointed out that this might not be possible for legal reasons)
**(See simple mockup of page [http://wiki.mozilla.org/images/a/a4/FirefoxSupportVideoContest_StartPage.jpg])
* A submission form for contest participants with the following fields:
**Name
**E-mail address
**URL/title of article the screencast is for.
**URL of the actual screencast.
*A simple list of submissions so far. Depending on legal stuff, could be linking directly to the video URL (or even embed it on the page and only show 10 videos at the time).
=== Extra requirements ===
These are things that would make the site more interactive and cool, but probably not feasible.
*A way to connect the list of available articles with the submissions. So, instead of just providing the name/url of the article chosen, the user would pick from a drop-down list of article, or choose "Other/None of the above".
**Would make it possible to see how many videos have been submitted for each article.
**We could use this to say e.g. "Article x has no submissions so far. By choosing an article with no other submitted videos, you increase the chance of your video getting accepted."
*A way to pick a "featured submission" so it automatically appears on the start page.


=== Needs decision ===
=== Needs decision ===
* what's the wanted format of the video (size, length, focus, etc)
* how can we make this interesting? (purpose, framing, prizes, etc)
* how can we make this interesting? (purpose, framing, prizes, etc)
** a fun and creative way of helping mozilla with firefox support
** creative freedom -- we shouldn't restrict people aside from the general guidelines above
* legal/rules of contest
* legal/rules of contest
* recommend Jing, but let them use whatever software
** Seth working with legal
* we cannot host software, so make it clear that entrants need to host it elsewhere
* recommend Flash, but not full-screen.  viewable on regular screen, small file size
* prizes (everyone that ends up on website gets t-shirt; grand prize for the best)
* prizes (everyone that ends up on website gets t-shirt; grand prize for the best)


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=== SFx Micros Site ===
=== SFx Micros Site ===
* static pages with information
* static pages with information
** purpose of contest
** rules / legal
** guidelines
*** recommend Flash, but not full-screen.  viewable on regular screen, small file size
*** recommend Jing, but let them use whatever software
*** we cannot host software, so make it clear that entrants need to host it elsewhere
*** limit dimensions to 640x480, to reduce both screen size requirement and download size
*** avoid full-screen (full-desktop) videos unless needed for the purpose of the video
*** focus on specific tasks or problems (e.g. don't create one video covering e.g. how to use tabs and the download manager)
* jslater might have an old microsite laying around that we can reuse for this, saving lots of time
* David puts up content during contest (clear with Catherine)
* David puts up content during contest (clear with Catherine)
* David and Seth do some joke time videos
* David and Seth do some joke time videos
== Technical Requirements ==
We can either do it the simple way, or the cool way. Therefore, this document contains the minimum requirements as well as optional, extra requirements. 
=== Minimum requirements ===
* A main contest page with
**A project description
**A large button to participate in the contest with e.g. the text "Create your own videos!"
**Two or three "featured" submissions. We could handle this manually by editing the page. (Lucy pointed out that this might not be possible for legal reasons)
**(See simple mockup of page [http://wiki.mozilla.org/images/a/a4/FirefoxSupportVideoContest_StartPage.jpg])
* A submission form for contest participants with the following fields:
**Name
**E-mail address
**URL/title of article the screencast is for.
**URL of the actual screencast.
*A simple list of submissions so far. Depending on legal stuff, could be linking directly to the video URL (or even embed it on the page and only show 10 videos at the time).
=== Extra requirements ===
These are things that would make the site more interactive and cool, but probably not feasible.
*A way to connect the list of available articles with the submissions. So, instead of just providing the name/url of the article chosen, the user would pick from a drop-down list of article, or choose "Other/None of the above".
**Would make it possible to see how many videos have been submitted for each article.
**We could use this to say e.g. "Article x has no submissions so far. By choosing an article with no other submitted videos, you increase the chance of your video getting accepted."
*A way to pick a "featured submission" so it automatically appears on the start page.
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