One of the really cool ‘web maker’ projects that Mozilla sponsored in the
last few years was Popcorn Maker <https://popcorn.webmaker.org/>, an
in-browser video editor that could take direct video clips or videos from
Youtube etc and let you remix to your heart’s content. (See Ben’s blog post
from July <http://www.benmoskowitz.com/?p=1083> and Mike’s presentation on
Air Mozilla <https://air.mozilla.org/mnolan/>)
Obviously this capability is very attractive for the future of video on
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites!
Unfortunately Mozilla has to shuffle priorities, and Popcorn Maker is on
the outs
<https://blog.webmaker.org/product-update-for-appmaker-and-popcorn-maker>.
Fortunately, there’s enough interest in the Wikimedia video world that
we’re helping to pick it up!
Popcorn Editor is a standalone version
<https://github.com/mozilla/popcorn-editor#readme> of the Popcorn Maker
editor tool, and I’m going to be helping with integrating that into
MediaWiki. We’ve got a milestone in the bug tracker
<https://github.com/mozilla/popcorn-editor/milestones/Wikimedia%20proof%20of%20concept>
and everything. [image: :)]
If you’re interested in helping out, we’re going to have some work sprints
at WikiConference USA <http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/2015/Main_Page>
next weekend in Washington, DC. Please come and help out!
-- brion