The Open Video Alliance, Open Source Video & the Kaltura Platform

Posted on July 30, 2009
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Kaltura is an open source video platform, from its video codec to its back-end systems for uploading, hosting, embedding, syndicating, analyzing and inserting advertisements into videos.
Anyone can use the code for free: clients pay only for custom installation, integration, and support, depending on their level of traffic.

Kaltura is also co-founder of the Open Video Conference that took place in NYC on June 19-20, along with the Participatory Culture Foundation, Yale Internet Society Project and iCommons.

So, what is actually Open Video?

Basically, a wide movement of video creators, technologists, academics, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, activists, remixers, and many others.

It’s not just about open source: it’s about interoperability and further decentralization in online video – because the movement maintains that centralized distribution and proprietary technologies can actually threaten innovation.

The video presented above is taken from that event. Some key points emerged from the interviews, I transcribed some of them below:

“The dream for open video is to be able to collaborate on video work with the same level of ease & facility that I’m able to collaborate on a wikipedia article”

“For me what it would be really exciting to come out of this is something along the lines of the social movement, and I think the open video has an opportunity to really bring these energies together, and focus them, and create something amazing”

“I think we need to figure out a system that let us reach a mass of audience of people, with tools that are totally open, and not dependent on any big company.”

“The biggest thing is making content free, and making people from across the world access the content they want, in the format that they want it.”

“Wide open is amazing, but if no one is using it’s a moo-point. It’s all about bringing average people to use it casually.”

“I want to see a lot more strong connections to be made between grassroots activists and policy makers, policy actors inside the play.”

“It’s really hard to convince people who are working with traditional media, in particular documentary film-makers about the value of sharing.”

“The idea is to be able to use popular culture in video work, without fear of being sued everytime.”

“If it’s going to be a movement and if it’s going to succeed, it has to be cooperation. Even if we are all going in the same direction without having talked to each other, it’s not cooperation, it’s just a sort of massive movement.”

What’s your opinion? Any feedbacks appreciated.

Sources:
Open Video Conference
Kaltura blog

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