20081118 sesion#01

Host institution is wonderfull flamish cultural center PianoFabrique...

With (very) short delay and (very) few participants missing workshop started off with quite serious and detailed overview of licensing policies, economic relations, technological limitations and much more from the digital video world (from perspective of open source developer/producer/user)... as (somewhat) expected Jan Gerber of (0xdb and pad.ma fame) is showing some of the amazing examples of what future version of web browsers (primarily Firefox and Opera) with support natively video+svg+JavaScript ...this will enable us to do/see - AMAZING NEW WEB of VIDEOS and not just web pages ...while avoiding embedded propertary technologies/content (flash & other plugins)!
Presentation of http://MetaVid.org/ was also impressive demo of what can be done using semantic wiki data JavaScript applets and SMILE (the fact that SMILE is back in big style - brings SMILE back to my face ;-)

Participants got a free copy of Videovortex Reader!
You can get in touch with participants on IRC and go to OSVideo chat room...