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FOSS for Media Makers

Anna Helme

social justice and environmental video online

INTRO and THANKYOUS

Front Page

EngageMedia.org is a video-sharing website focusing on social justice and environmental issues in SE Asia, Australia and the Pacific

This is our front page with our featured video, news and events and our latest videos that have been uploaded to the site.

First a bit of background on the EngageMedia project..

EngageMedia Aims

Content

Network

Training

Software

Our core aims are:

* To assist individuals and groups producing thought-provoking and informative content focused on social and environmental issues. * To foster a regional network of producers, to assist each other in producing and distributing their work in the South East Asia and Pacific region. * Training - To develop the digital media and Internet skills of independent video makers and marginalised communities. * Software - To produce an online video delivery platform under a free software license that others are free to use and modify for their own media projects.

FOSS for Media Makers

What is FOSS?

Free (Libre) Open Source Software

proprietary vs. free software

Free software:

community benefit motive

open source

can modify

can redistribute

Proprietary software:

commercial benefit motive

closed source

can't modify

can't redistribute

Free Software

free - ambiguous

libre (as in FREE SPEECH)

not gratis (as in FREE BEER)

You can charge money for free software, that isn't what free refers to. But in practice,much free software is free as in beer, also.

Free Software

free software coined by Richard Stallman (GNU / free software movement), 1983

Freedom to:

run the program, for any purpose

study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (access to the source code)

redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor

improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits

Join us now and share the software;You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free.x2

Hoarders may get piles of money,That is true, hackers, that is true.But they cannot help their neighbors;That's not good, hackers, that's not good.

When we have enough free softwareAt our call, hackers, at our call,We'll throw out those dirty licensesEver more, hackers, ever more.

Join us now and share the software;You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free.x2

Cover ofThe Free Software Song (Richard Stallman) by the GNU Stallmans from the film Revolution OS about the history of the Linux OS

free software vs. open source

Free software:

ethical motive

Free Software Foundation

social movement

radical roots / idealist

Open source software:

practical motive

Open Source Initiative

development methodology

business-friendly

FOSS Licenses Examples

GNU General Public License (GPL)

BSD-style licenses

Mozilla Public License (MPL)

but...

they are essentially very similar in practice. therefore:

F.O.S.S. Free and Open Source Software

How do FOSS projects work?

Project page

Code repository

Development tracker

Demo (if applicable)

Debian Devil Linux Gentoo

Red HatSmooth Wall Suse

FOSS Operating Systems - Linux

etc.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409

watch 10 minutes of Revolution OS

FOSS Web Applications

MediaWiki - wiki

Wordpress - blog

Drupal - CMS

Plone - CMS

break?

FOSS for Media Makers

Pre-production

Production

Post-production

Distribution

Pre-Production

Neo Office documents, presentations, spreadsheets, databases Mac

Firefox web browser
- X-platform

Thunderbird email client
- X-platform

Production

GIMP image editor - X-platform

Audacity sound editor - X-platform

Hyper Engine AV video editor - Mac

Other Production

Cinelerra Linux video editorKino Linux video editorBlender Linux Animation Visual Effects

Post-production

ffmpegX video transcoder- Mac

Sizzle DVD DVD authoring - Mac

Burn DVD/VCD burning - Mac

Other Post-production

Simple Theora Encoder Ogg Encoder - Mac

Media Coder- Video Encoder PC

avidemux - Video Encoder - Linux

Distribution

EngageMedia

Azureus

Indytorrents

EngageMedia

Azureus

Indytorrents

Miro (Democracy)

VLC

Handbrake

Plumi -
Video Sharing Web App

FOSS Multimedia
Compilations

AV NGO in a box

Dynebolic

General FOSS Compilations

The Open CD

NGO in a box Base Box

FLOSS Manuals

Front Page

NOW Ill take you through the website briefly

Advertising revenue - shareholders

Streaming - no re-distribution

YouTube license - for their re-use

Closed software platform

Sold to Google - Google ads

Donations revenue - producers

Download for re-distribution

Creative Commons - producer choice

Free software platform

No sale, community management

Websites for user-generated content very popular now - Google Video, Yahoo Video, YouTube are just a few of the big ones. All have different approaches but the big commercial video-sharing sites have a few things in common which mean we need to provide independent alternatives for distributing our own media on the Internet.

Many of the new commercial media sharing sites offer highly restrictive terms and conditions on their user contributions. The most dubious is that of YouTube who state:

"by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube's (and its successor's) business in any media formats and through any media channels.

Login

What happens when you log in to EngageMedia, an idea of what you can do on the site.

Edit your profile

Publish Video

Publish Events

Publish News

Navigate to your workspace where you can upload files and share them in order to collaborate with other media makers or promote your video work

Use Case:

Video Maker

Use-cases to show how different people would use the site.

EngageMedia founded on the concept of Participatory Media - help to break down the divide between consumer and producer of media

Many members of the EngageMedia online community may be both interested in progressive video content from the region and also be video makers themselves.

How you would experience the site if you had your video maker hat on.

Profile

Join the site and establish a profile. Very useful for independent producers who wish to promote their work through the site, as well as giving you a bit of personality to help make the online community more real and more successful.

Pip Starr is a local activist video maker who has worked with SKA TV at Channel 31 to produce pieces about asylum seeker and indigenous issues, climate change and is now working on a piece about the nuclear industry.

Contact details, what activities he is involved in, and what mediums he likes to work in such as TV, DVD, Web and Film.

Hoping that this will facilitate collaboration - one video maker looks at another video makers work on the site and decides they might like to work together on a production. Help connect producers with distributors - film festivals, community TV and the like.

See latest video contributions to the site - and has your own personal Vodcast link. A vodcast is a video podcast, that lets people subscribe to your video channel and download your latest videos automatically in a program like iTunes or Democracy Player.

Next PUBLISHING when youre ready to upload a video to the site just click the Publish button

PROFILE PAGE

Publish 1

After you click the publish button you reach our 3 step publishing form.

First step is to enter general information

Publish 2

Second step is to classify your film by picking its country and genre, and choosing some topics from the list

Also choose your Creative Commons license, to let others know how they may use your work once they have downloaded it

I'll go into Creative Commons in more depth in a minute..

Publish 3

Third step where you browse for your video file and an image and hit Save to upload them.

Video View

Video Page - what your video looks like once youve uploaded it.

Video called Exploiting West Papua, uploaded by the Plug In TV show, a very successful program running on Channel 31 community TV station.

You can download the video from here - watch it, screen it and share it as long as you follow the Creative Commons license - more on that now..

open content licensing system

alternative to restrictive copyright

some rights reserved NOT all rights reserved

flexible system to allow choice of licenses

Explanation of what Creative Commons is about:

Open content licensing system - contributing to a collectively owned pool of free culture as opposed to individual intellectual property

alternative to copyright - copyright applies by default on any video that you produce and is very restrictive about what others can do with your video. People arent allowed to screen your work in a community venue, at a fundraiser or anywhere without your explicit permission

some rights reserved NOT all rights reserved like traditional copyright

flexible system to allow choice - you choose who can re-use your work in what ways

Attribution - if they give you credit

Noncommercial - for noncommercial purposes.

No Derivative Works - verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

Share Alike - derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

You let others copy, distribute and transmit your copyrighted work ONLY:All Creative Commons licenses revolve around these basic concepts, you can mix and match which ones you choose. The license will say:

You let others copy, distribute and transmit your copyrighted work ONLY:

Attribution - if they give you credit - THIS APPLIES TO ALL CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES

Noncommercial - YOU CAN CHOOSE THIS UNLESS YOU DONT MIND IF PEOPLE USE YOUR WORK FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES. IF YOU REALLY WANT TO GET YOUR MESSAGE OUT THIS WILL POTENTIALLY ALLOW MUCH WIDER DISTRIBUTION OF YOUR WORK

No Derivative Works - PEOPLE CANT REMIX YOUR WORK IF YOU CHOOSE THIS OPTION

Share Alike - PEOPLE CAN REMIX YOUR WORK, OR USE PORTIONS OF IT IN THEIR OWN WORK BUT THEY HAVE TO LET PEOPLE REMIX THEIR WORK TOO

You can choose from a few different combinations of those options to use in your Creative Commons license.

Use Case:

Educator / Campaigner / Re-distributor

Another way of using the website:

Educator - teacher in schools or universities

Campaigner - social justice or environmental campaign and you want some video resources to support your work

Re-distributor - putting together a film festival or DVD compilation and youre looking for content

Video View

Video Page - what your video looks like once youve uploaded it.

Video called Exploiting West Papua, uploaded by the Plug In TV show, a very successful program running on Channel 31 community TV station.

You can download the video from here - watch it, screen it and share it as long as you follow the Creative Commons license - more on that now..

Browse Topics

View Videos by topic

Browse Genres

By genre:

Documentary

Experimental

Fiction

Animation

Music

Browse Countries

By different countries in the region

Browse Experimental

An example, here's a list of experimental videos uploaded to the site

Browse Climate Change

Or just our videos about Climate Change

Browse Documentary

And here is a list of all the latest documentaries on the site.

Each of these listings also generates a Video Podcast Feed automatically.

All I would do to access this Vodcast is copy the link from the orange VODCAST button

Democracy Player

Paste the URL into Democracy Player to subscribe to the channel

And then you can choose which videos youd like to download, or download them all automatically.

Democracy Player also has a video player built in, so its a great tool for putting on screenings direct from your laptop.

Subscribe to channels, search for videos, build a playlist and then watch the videos fullscreen.

social justice and environmental video online

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