Come one, come all!
Our next meeting for Wikimedia NYC is Sunday May 17 at Columbia University.
This is a meeting for volunteers to the projects of the non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation, and everyone else too, who has ever looked at
Wikipedia and wondered what's going on behind it.
One big topic of discussion, out of many, will be preparing for our
'Wiki-Conference New York' at NYU this summer.
Other topics will be recent experiences at the WMF Chapters meeting
and in cooperating with local groups in NYC, photography for Wikinews,
and discussing issues relevant to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia
projects.
We welcome all guests. If you support open education and free
culture, we are your people. If you have a project you want to work
on with us, this is a great opportunity to get acquainted. If you want
someone to give a talk or teach a class with an inside view of
Wikipedia, meet your volunteers. And if you just have any questions,
we'd be glad to try to answer them.
Remember, the agenda here is up to you! I encourage anyone who is
interested to sign up to give a presentation or suggest a topic for
general discussion at our wikimeetup page (given below).
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2:30 PM - 5:00PM:
Room 1402 Pupin Hall, Columbia University. Take the elevator to the
13th floor and then walk up one flight of stairs. Meeting to be held
in the library at the east end of the hall.
5:00 PM onwards:
Meetup at Pupin Hall, and then walk together to The Symposium, a local
Greek restaurant with an oddly appropriate name..
Page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
You can officially 'sign up' at that page, and please add your ideas
to the agenda!
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Dear NYC Wikimedians,
Please consider attending and spreading the word about this conference we're
organizing. We've just confirmed a talk with Erik Moeller and Michael Dale
about "Collaborative Video in Wikipedia," which we're very excited to add to
the mix!
Thanks,
Elizabeth
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Register now!* http://openvideoconference.org/registration/
on Twitter/Identi.ca: @openvideo
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June 19-20, 2009
New York City
40 Washington Square South (NYU Law School)
http://openvideoconference.org
*Details*
The Open Video Conference is a two-day gathering of thought leaders in
technology, business, public policy, art, and activism from around the world
to explore the future of the moving image.
Thanks to a proliferation of tools for recording, editing, and distributing
video online, anyone can be a broadcaster. Sites like YouTube are bursting
at the seams with user-created content. Individuals armed with cell phone
cameras are effectively citizen journalists. And emerging artistic forms
like video commentary and remix/mashup create new vocabularies for creative
and political expression.
Yet as the medium matures, we face a crossroads. Will technology and public
policy support a more participatory culture—one that encourages and enables
free expression and broader cultural engagement? Or will online video become
a glorified TV-on-demand service, a central part of a permissions-based
culture? Web video holds tremendous potential, but limits on broadband,
playback technology, and fair use threaten to undermine the ability of
individuals to engage in dialogues in and around this new media ecosystem.
*Highlights*
Bestselling author Clay Shirky will give a talk about the disruptive effects
of the web. Harvard's Jonathan Zittrain (TBC) will moderate a discussion on
platform innovation with Boxee CEO Avner Ronen, Blip.tv CEO Mike Hudack, and
representatives from YouTube and Adobe. Lizz Winstead, activist and
co-creator of The Daily Show, will discuss web video as political
commentary. Legendary hacker Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) will address data
portability. Mozilla, makers of the Firefox web browser, will highlight what
it's doing to cement open video standards. You'll hear from Anthony
Falzone—executive director at Stanford's Fair Use Project and counsel to
graphic artist Shepherd Fairey—about the new battle lines drawn around fair
use. Voices from the blogosphere, public media, and traditional media will
explore the ways to make their content work in an open video ecosystem. Josh
Silver, executive director of Free Press, will highlight the ways telecom
policy hinders independent media, and much more.
This is just a peek—have a look at our schedule page for more details:
http://www.openvideoconference.org/agenda.
In addition to two full days of high-profile programming, you can expect a
slate of workshops and behind-the-scenes technical working groups with
leading edge video developers from projects like VLC, Ogg Theora, GStreamer,
Blender, PiTiVi, Miro, Kaltura, Firefox, and many more. This event should
interest anyone with a stake in art, culture, technology, policy,
journalism, or online business.
*Registration*
Registration entitles you to all conference benefits: talks and
presentations, workshops, screenings, two lunches, and a cool afterparty
featuring video turntablists Eclectic Method. Plus you'll get to mingle with
thought leaders in online video and take home a cool bag of schwag! Don't
wait—register at http://www.openvideoconference.org/registration.
*Organizers*
Our conference co-organizers are Participatory Culture Foundation, Yale ISP,
iCommons, and Kaltura. Our partners include Mozilla, Berkman Center for
Internet and Society at Harvard, Free Press, Creative Commons, Big Think,
NYU Information Law Institute, Intelligent TV, The Workbook Project, FGV
Brazil CTS, NEXA Italy, and more.
For more information, contact conference(a)openvideoalliance.org.