{"id":61689,"date":"2009-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2009\/06\/26\/mark-surman-open-video-conference-roundup\/"},"modified":"2021-02-08T20:30:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:30:56","slug":"mark-surman-open-video-conference-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/mark-surman-open-video-conference-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Video Conference Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Editor’s note: The inaugural Open Video Conference<\/a> took place last week in New York City (Mozilla was one of the sponsors). Mark Surman<\/a>, executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, has posted some observations about the conference<\/a>, which are excerpted here. We’re excited about the future of video on the web as we prepare to release Firefox 3.5<\/a>, with built-in support for the open video format.<\/p>\n

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Wow! was the only word that can really sum up the Open Video Conference<\/a> last weekend in New York City.<\/strong> It was an amazing confluence of people from the worlds of online video, art, free culture, open content and web technology. This is not a group that comes together often, but it turns out sparks fly when they do (in a good way).<\/p>\n

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Photo: Kid Kameleon, CC BY SA NC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Of course, the big take away is that open video is both important and<\/em> fun<\/strong>. Dean<\/a>, Elizabeth<\/a>, Ben<\/a> and all the volunteers did an AMAZING job organizing an event that showed this. They invited the right mix of people<\/a>, programmed the right content<\/a> and threw the right parties. The organizations that backed the event also showed tremendous leadership and prescience \u2014 Participatory Culture Foundation<\/a>, Kaltura<\/a>, the Yale Information and Society Project<\/a> and iCommons<\/a>. All of these people and orgs deserve a huge thank you (I hear clapping!).<\/p>\n

Next steps:<\/strong> start doing the small and easy things (open video awareness and documentation), and figure out a way to pick up some of the hard stuff along the way (better codecs, easy tools, deeper connections to the people who make video). The good news is there are alot of people and orgs that want to make it happen, and they are gathering around this idea of an Open Video Alliance<\/a> (the umbrella for the conference). Good things ahead.<\/p>\n

PS. A full video archive of the conference sessions is coming soon<\/a>. In the meantime, you can see one of the demos that Blizzard and Paul Rouget gave here<\/a> and Blizzard and my slides here<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read Mark’s full wrap-up of the Open Video Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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