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

[Brion Vibber]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> My understanding is that Michael Dale was told that Wikimedia would be
> using Kaltura and that it might consider metavid some day 'in the
> future'. Perhaps I misunderstood, but this is also appears to be what
> was claimed in the presentation you gave to Sun Microsystems, and it
> was consistent with the press release that Kaltura was circulating
> when I heard this.

That's hopefully inaccurate. The only person in a position to say with
any authority what plugins we're planning to run would be me, and I've
certainly not said such a thing.

> The SVN hosting (which started a few weeks ago) is, as I understand
> it, a direct results of Kaltura-related complaints that WMF is
> ignoring requests for help from open projects.

Quite simply, Michael asked me and I said "of course!"

I never, ever would have turned him down at any time he might have asked
previously, had he done so.

-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)