Jay Walsh wrote:

Hey all,

Kaltura - who are kind benefactors of Wikimania this year, wanted to pass on the following invite to those who are participating in Wikimania

• or those who may not be able to.

They've got two lonely videos on there right now. Consider uploading your travel videos for some open-source collaboration/editing. Add as many other videos as you can come across while you're in Alexandria. If you can't make it, why not edit a video or add some reflections or views of your own?

(PS, freshly blogged at http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/07/08/kaltura-and-wikimania-08-collaborative-...)

Thanks! Jay Walsh, Head of Communications

Here's the invitation from Lisa Bennet, Director of Public Relations and Marketing, Kaltura

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Hi Everyone,

As Wikimania is right around the corner, we’ve added a new great way to share information about the event. I would like to invite you to the Wikimania Video Site where you can create collaborative videos. The site already has some videos where people can add their expectations for the event or share why they can’t join us this year, and there will be computer stations at Wikimania for attendees to add videos and pictures in real-time from Alexandria. Hopefully, it will be a great resource for people that could not be there in person to see the highlights, and for the attendees to document the event.

Check it out at: http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Wikimania_Video_Site

The site is hosted on the Kaltura devwiki and uses the collaborative video technology from Kaltura, which the Foundation partnered with late last year to explore adding videos to Wikipedia and other projects.

You’re invited to share your experiences from Wikimania, play with the technology, and provide your feedback.

Okay, my first three feedbacks.

1. I uploaded an image just fine. This image was added to the end of the video automatically (I could not put it elsewhere). I had no other choice than cc by sa as a licence. The image may have been cc by sa... or something else... so I may have infringed the original licence. I had no field where I could add the source or name of the author. So, ultimately, I did not respect the licence of the image. I apology to the author.

2. I tried to remix the video. When I clicked on remix, I found myself in front of the "add to this video" system. I was never able to remix, nor to see a history of the entire video.

3. I decided to go back to the main video to click again on the remix button. It crashed my browser and I lost the roughly 30 pages which were opened.

That ended my experience with it.

Ant