Create short form video content

[vladh]

@gregkumparak was saying today that it would be great to find a format for ~1min long videos that is easily repeatable, so that we can put out multiple videos a week, with similar scripts.

We could highlight Open Source projects that are crucial to our everyday activities.

But we can't make it boring and techy, so we can't lead with the computer stuff.

So maybe: in 2012, 4.5 million healthcare records were stolen by hackers; this happened because of a security problem in OpenSSL; so the people taking care of OpenSSL are very important!

Or here's another idea: Apple has made 7 bajillion dollars from the iPhone; but the iPhone was built on software created for free as a gift; the creators never got paid; shouldn't Apple pay some of it back?

It would be great to land on an idea we think would be entertaining. Once we do that, I could film a test video.

[vladh]

Maybe a short about Andres Freund: https://mastodon.social/@AndresFreundTec/112180083704606941

[vladh]

This might be nice to cover:

This Android library with 174 stars and one maintainer has taken down Monday.com, Eventbrite (!!!), UPS, Kraken, Lowe's, YBS, IKEA, Agibank, iFood, PagBank, pago.ro, and Udemy.
— Filippo Valsorda, 21 Jun 2025

The library is appmattus/certificatetransparency.

The issue is tracked here: appmattus/certificatetransparency#143 (comment)