You’ve probably heard the news about the Linux Foundation’s “I’m Linux” video contest. In case you haven’t: The Linux Foundation is sponsoring a contest to create videos that “showcases just what Linux means to those who use it, and hopefully inspires many to try it.”

The grand prize is a trip to Linux Foundation’s Linux Symposium in Tokyo, Japan. (To be held in October, 2009.) The contest starts officially on January 26, but they’re accepting early submissions now. Not bad, as far as incentives go. (Well, unless you already live in Tokyo…)

This should be a really fun contest, and a great opportunity for Linux enthusiasts who aren’t developers to help contribute to the promotion of Linux. (Though developers are also welcome, of course.) It will be doubly fun for me,  because I’ve been asked to help judge the contest.

I think this, a grassroots promotion for Linux, is a very good idea. If we start applying the same kind of collaborative effort to marketing Linux that has been applied so far to actually developing code, I think we can get pretty far. (More on this to come…)

If you have a good idea for a video (and I’m sure that a lot of openSUSE community members do…) fire up the video cameras and get to submitting!