Hi all,
If you are at Wikimania, please say hello to Michael Nolan, cc'd. Mike is currently
interning at Mozilla and his focus is to help "white-label" Popcorn Maker, our
browser-based video editor, so others can deploy it in their web apps. He's also a big
free culture and access to knowledge advocate on his campus.
Mike is attending Wikimedia to understand potential use cases and to hopefully build a
prototype showing how this could work on Commons.
If this sounds interesting, would encourage you to reach out: mnolan(a)mozilla.com. Mike
will be attending the hackathon and most of the video-related conference sessions. Here is
the repo where he's currently working:
https://github.com/nolski/popcorn-editor
Some background: Popcorn Maker is something we have been working on for a few years at
Mozilla. You can try it out here:
http://popcorn.webmaker.org. We will be winding down
Popcorn Maker as a Mozilla service over the next few months, but naturally as an open
source project we are interested in seeing whether parts of Popcorn's source code can
help solve problems for others.
Believe it or not, my motivation for helping to build Popcorn Maker stemmed from the 2010
era excitement around collaborative video editing on Wikimedia projects. I think that as
far as media sequencing, remix and attribution goes, Popcorn is at least 80% of the way
towards awesome and should be part of experiments on Labs & conversations on how the
Wikimedia project should approach collaborative media production over the next few years.
I wrote more on the opportunity here:
http://www.benmoskowitz.com/?p=1083
Post-Wikimania, would love to organize a call so we can plan further with interested
folks.
Cheers!
Ben