On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Elizabeth Stark <emst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear NYC Wikimedians, > > Please consider attending and spreading the word about this conference we're > organizing. We've just confirmed a talk with Erik Moeller and Michael Dale > about "Collaborative Video in Wikipedia," which we're very excited to add to > the mix! > > Thanks, > > Elizabeth
Thanks for the invite, Elizabeth. I hope a couple of us can be a little part of the mix along with Erik Moeller and Michael Dale, especially if we have that Open Video Hack Day on Sunday. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) > ----------------------------------------- > Register now! http://openvideoconference.org/registration/ > > on Twitter/Identi.ca: @openvideo > on Facebook: http://is.gd/xeL8 > > June 19-20, 2009 > New York City > 40 Washington Square South (NYU Law School) > http://openvideoconference.org > > Details > > The Open Video Conference is a two-day gathering of thought leaders in > technology, business, public policy, art, and activism from around the world > to explore the future of the moving image. > > Thanks to a proliferation of tools for recording, editing, and distributing > video online, anyone can be a broadcaster. Sites like YouTube are bursting > at the seams with user-created content. Individuals armed with cell phone > cameras are effectively citizen journalists. And emerging artistic forms > like video commentary and remix/mashup create new vocabularies for creative > and political expression. > > Yet as the medium matures, we face a crossroads. Will technology and public > policy support a more participatory culture—one that encourages and enables > free expression and broader cultural engagement? Or will online video become > a glorified TV-on-demand service, a central part of a permissions-based > culture? Web video holds tremendous potential, but limits on broadband, > playback technology, and fair use threaten to undermine the ability of > individuals to engage in dialogues in and around this new media ecosystem. > > Highlights > > Bestselling author Clay Shirky will give a talk about the disruptive effects > of the web. Harvard's Jonathan Zittrain (TBC) will moderate a discussion on > platform innovation with Boxee CEO Avner Ronen, Blip.tv CEO Mike Hudack, and > representatives from YouTube and Adobe. Lizz Winstead, activist and > co-creator of The Daily Show, will discuss web video as political > commentary. Legendary hacker Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) will address data > portability. Mozilla, makers of the Firefox web browser, will highlight what > it's doing to cement open video standards. You'll hear from Anthony > Falzone—executive director at Stanford's Fair Use Project and counsel to > graphic artist Shepherd Fairey—about the new battle lines drawn around fair > use. Voices from the blogosphere, public media, and traditional media will > explore the ways to make their content work in an open video ecosystem. Josh > Silver, executive director of Free Press, will highlight the ways telecom > policy hinders independent media, and much more. > > This is just a peek—have a look at our schedule page for more details: > http://www.openvideoconference.org/agenda. > > > In addition to two full days of high-profile programming, you can expect a > slate of workshops and behind-the-scenes technical working groups with > leading edge video developers from projects like VLC, Ogg Theora, GStreamer, > Blender, PiTiVi, Miro, Kaltura, Firefox, and many more. This event should > interest anyone with a stake in art, culture, technology, policy, > journalism, or online business. > Registration > > Registration entitles you to all conference benefits: talks and > presentations, workshops, screenings, two lunches, and a cool afterparty > featuring video turntablists Eclectic Method. Plus you'll get to mingle with > thought leaders in online video and take home a cool bag of schwag! Don't > wait—register at http://www.openvideoconference.org/registration. > > Organizers > > Our conference co-organizers are Participatory Culture Foundation, Yale ISP, > iCommons, and Kaltura. Our partners include Mozilla, Berkman Center for > Internet and Society at Harvard, Free Press, Creative Commons, Big Think, > NYU Information Law Institute, Intelligent TV, The Workbook Project, FGV > Brazil CTS, NEXA Italy, and more. > > For more information, contact confere...@openvideoalliance.org. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia_NYC mailing list > Wikimedia_NYC@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia_nyc > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia_NYC mailing list Wikimedia_NYC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia_nyc
