Comment Re:The first program was not that interesting... (Score 1) 143
but the presenter (who tries to be a comedian)
Actually the presenter *is* a comedian - he's fairly well known in South Africa and had a great response from test audiences. Believe it or not, most people get the jokes ;)
As for the developer - the purpose wasn't to show-off one of the "great" open source developers, but rather to show how regualar, everyday people are using open source to achieve good things. This guy was clearly very young and had used gimp and the nokia SDK to develop a game that is being sold internationally, not bad going. Believe or not, hardcore geeks are also really difficult to get in front of a camera, and when they do they're often less than entertaining.
We never expected the show to appeal to harcore geeks, they now everything we're going to show, but we did expect it to appeal to people that have never heard of open source before, and it does.
Actually the presenter *is* a comedian - he's fairly well known in South Africa and had a great response from test audiences. Believe it or not, most people get the jokes
As for the developer - the purpose wasn't to show-off one of the "great" open source developers, but rather to show how regualar, everyday people are using open source to achieve good things. This guy was clearly very young and had used gimp and the nokia SDK to develop a game that is being sold internationally, not bad going. Believe or not, hardcore geeks are also really difficult to get in front of a camera, and when they do they're often less than entertaining.
We never expected the show to appeal to harcore geeks, they now everything we're going to show, but we did expect it to appeal to people that have never heard of open source before, and it does.
