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Posted to Rev list with zero response so far - clock ticking away. A
friendly face suggested I try the professionals :)<br>
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<b>Summary</b><br>
In case, the open source jargon is lost on some - a quick summary. It's
a conference I'm programming, around 800,000 people are destined to
fall on London this weekend for the "European Social Forum" - not all
our event. Our little event includes two of the top names in the open
source names - no names till bullet proof. To make the event
participatory and fun I'm suggesting we(that is the list) build a
useful app in 24 hours with the code released LGPL. The features would
be specified during workshops at the event. The tool is for NGO's -
perhaps to edit and ftp video to their site. <br>
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The conference features a debate around the forthcoming Creative
Archive of the BBC - which will allow people to download and remix,
much of the BBC's archive of material - documentaries etc.<br>
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In short it is a show case for how fast it is to prototype multimedia
apps in MC / Rev, and it's for a good cause. The challenge is:<br>
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<blockquote>So what can be built with MC / Rev inside 24 hours?<br>
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Below, I copy the sadly neglected, but lovingly written missive :(<br>
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<b>The context</b><br>
Following the Creative Commons launch of the UK licenses here in
London, there will be a series of workshops on software tools, and
demo's working towards a multimedia presentation and DVD release of
documentary made on the day. This is all taking place at London School
of Economics on Saturday 16th and 17th of October. A group of
documentary makers from Goldsmiths will be documenting the day. We hope
to have some material and speakers from the Creative Archive project
from the BBC and there will be a live link-up with a parallel arts
based conference in Vienna. The event is being held in the midst of the
"chaos" of the European Social Forum (ESF) in London that weekend -
forgot how many people are due to turn up - 800,000? A lot anyway.<br>
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Going to release a bunch of code and tools, hosted on SourceForge, so
anyone else want to release their code LGPL get in touch. It would be
good to kick start some group work on small code libraries - to help
out those lonely developers working away on their own stuff :)<br>
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<h4>The idea?</h4>
Nothing new - Dar's report on the contest he entered made me think it
might be a nice idea. The context will be different though.I'm thinking
of some multimedia tool creation going on based on live feedback from
the workshops. That is not really a contest between different tools -
just a show case for how much can be done with Rev and this community
here in 24 hours.<br>
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One thing I'd like to build on in particular is Trevor DeVore's
enhanced QuickTime external. There is a need for a number of non-profit
groups to have simple cross-platform clients that can edit video and
upload these to streaming servers and archives. Surely we can code a
little ditty like this in a day? More to the point is the ability to
respond to specification request during the workshops themselves on the
first day and then incorporate them prior to the next days seminars?
Pretty good show case for RunRev no?<br>
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Maybe the BBC will take this up and distribute it with the launch of
the Creative Archive project? The code will be released open source
under an LGPL license. The documentary shot on the day, and at other
ESF locations, will be distributed under a Creative Commons license.
Other ideas could be to make an interactive title out of the material?
The main focus will be on responsiveness to feature requests from users
and people at the workshops - how far we take it will depend on the
level of interest from the list. let me know if you love or hate the
idea?<br>
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<br>
david
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