Brion wrote:
> 1) Overturn the requirement to avoid handling h.264 files on Wikimedia servers or accept them from users or serve them to users. Allow importing h.264 uploads and creating h.264 transcodes for playback compatibility.
Yes, this is essential. Can be via a separate videowiki in the short term (or NCcommons) if the WM Commons community is united in opposition.
I disagree. Using non-open tools in our workflows is a poison that should be resisted by any means possible.
Instead, we should create an app (or integrate in the Commons app), the possibility to record video natively in a free and open format.
Yes, it would be a big task, but it would show that we mean what we say when we talk about the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge and would be of great benefit not only to our movement, but to the society in general.
/Jan