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Will Linus Like Your Video?

The Linux Foundation Video Contest this year is different. For the first time, we're running it mid-year and more importantly, it is one of the ways we're celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Linux. Here are five more reasons to submit a video this year! Deadline is July 2, 2011.

1) Linus. Linux creator Linus Torvalds is choosing the ultimate winner this year. No one has a better sense of humor, or competitive streak, than Linus. Winning this year's contest will get you some real community cred. Don't be intimidated. No flames.

2) Planes, trains and automobiles. You get a free trip, people. And, you get to choose from four different destinations depending on which event you choose to attend as the winner: LA Film Festival (Los Angeles), SXSW (Austin, Texas), LinuxCon North America (Vancouver, B.C.) or LinuxCon Europe (Prague).

3) You'll go down in history. This year's winning video will become *the* 20th Anniversary of Linux video. It will be hosted here on the widely visited Linux.com website and The Linux Foundation's YouTube Channel, as well as promoted to hundreds of thousands of people on The Linux Foundation's social channels.

4) Get skillz. If the only thing you've ever shot is your kid eating applesauce but you had a great time doing it...winning this contest could open up a new outlet for your creativity or even get you noticed and open up a new career path.

5) Make a difference, inspire. Linux invokes passionate emotion from the people who use it and who are involved in its development. Linux is the largest collaborative development project in the history of computing. It set the expectation that software, hardware and much more could be built collectively. Your video could plant the seed for the next inspiration to come from Linux.

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Hands-On with Netflix for Android (video)

Netflix for Android is here... finally. It's been a long time coming and we're thrilled to be able to bring our instant queue with us wherever we go. Though technically only approved for a handful of HTC phones and the Samsung Nexus S, we were able to successfully get it up and running on at least one unsanctioned device -- the Droid X (sporting a leaked copy of Gingerbread). So what's Netflix like on Google's mobile OS? Well, it's a heck of a lot like the iPhone app. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to tell them apart if it weren't for the tabs being moved from the bottom of the screen to the top. Still, we figured it was worth giving a solid once over and, as usual, you can find our impressions after the break.

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More Ways to Get to LinuxCon: Submit Your Video

We need you! And, we want you to join us at LinuxCon. That's why today we're announcing that we will give away one free LinuxCon pass per 20th Anniversary of Linux Video Contest entry.

Our annual Video Contest is one of the only ways that individuals can promote Linux as they see fit and enter it to be considered for high-level visibility and promotion as the annual winner. And, with this year's focus on the 20th Anniversary and with Linus judging, that visibility should be bigger than ever.

But, we understand it takes a little bit of work to put a great video together, and we want to thank you for that effort. That's why we're giving away free passes to LinuxCon for each entry. A free pass to this year's event is one to put in the scrapbook: with the 20th Anniversary Gala taking place opening night of the event, the Video Contest winner being revealed onsite, and keynotes from Jim Whitehurst and Clay Shirky, among other speakers, it's going to be one for the history books.

Don't forget that the big winner of this year's Video Contest gets their choice of an expenses-paid trip to one of four events: SXSW, LA Film Festival, LinuxCon North America or LinuxCon Europe.

Get your entry in early and start racking up the community vote. Linus will be considering community favorites when he chooses the ultimate winner.

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