[Debian-NYC] Open Video Conference (NYC)
I'm guessing our fellow New Yorkers would probably be interested in
this event, so I'm forwarding the conference announcement to the list.
A number of free software projects will have representatives at the
event, and DVD Jon and some prominent members of the free culture
movement will speak.
See the agenda: http://openvideoconference.org/agenda/
Cheers,
Dara
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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 conference@openvideoalliance.org.
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