[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Invites Users to Take Part in Open, Collaborative Video Experiment

[Chad]

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 at 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_Open%2C_Collaborative_Video_Experiment
>
>
> 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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