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

[Ian A Holton]

I agree fully with you Chad. Of course it is a nice thing this
collaborative video stuff, but did we really need it that bad? How will
this benefit the existing projects?

Something very dodgy is going on in my opinion - this commercial
start-up has entered the foundation as if it was the most natural thing.
I wonder what part Wikia plays in all this?

Ian [[User: Poeloq]]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 15:34 -0500, Chad wrote:
> 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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