I agree fully with you Chad. Of course it is a nice thing this collaborative video stuff, but did we really need it that bad? How will this benefit the existing projects?
Something very dodgy is going on in my opinion - this commercial start-up has entered the foundation as if it was the most natural thing. I wonder what part Wikia plays in all this?
Ian [[User: Poeloq]]
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 15:34 -0500, Chad wrote:
When Flash itself becomes open-source, I'll join. Until then, I'm not touching it and I encourage the community to do the same.
The Foundation announcing support of some random YouTube-clone startup is really the final straw. They have now /officially/ abandoned the vision of free content.
Chad
On Jan 18, 2008 3:07 PM, Jay A. Walsh jwalsh@wikimedia.org wrote:
Simultaneous send to wikitech-l, foundation-l, and commons-l
Hi folks,
Yesterday the Wikimedia Foundation, Kaltura, and WikiEducator made a combined announcement about our beta collaborative video project. You can see the announcement here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Invites_Users_to_Take_Part_in_...
The Foundation has set up a landing page here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Collaborative_Video
with more background and information. We'll keep it updated regularly.
WikiEducator has done the same here:
http://wikieducator.org/Help:Collaborative_video
with specific instructions on how to participate in the beta.
Through this project the parties will be able to explore the potential for developing open-source, collaborative video or slideshows for the Foundation's projects. Collaborative video is simply a collection of images, video, and sound edited and combined by one or more collaborators.
The technology, which many of you may already be familiar with, will be demonstrated on WikiEducator - which is not a WMF project. Those of us involved in the Wikimedia Foundation projects will have a chance to examine the software, test its limits, and ultimately improve our ability to bring multi-media, free knowledge content to our users. We recognize that Kaltura's software and interface are still not 100% open-source, and as such the technology will not appear on any Foundation projects until we've worked through some of the technical challenges - which is where you come in.
Kaltura has released their code to the open-source community to help this project along. It's available on SourceForge,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura .
We're excited that an innovative, private business has taken strong initiative in embracing open-source development.
You're invited to examine the code, test the technology as it exists on WikiEducator, and help us bring this functionality to the Wikimedia Foundation projects over the coming months. You'll find a feedback process on the WikiEducator landing page, and of course we fully welcome discussion about the technology on the lists.
Thanks,
-- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org 1 (415) 287-0680
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