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Kaltura DevConnect — free admission for friends of OVC

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Our friends at Kaltura are offering free admission to Kaltura’s DevConnect 2012 event. Read on for more…

With online video revolutionizing so many aspects of our lives, improving the ways we communicate, educate, collaborate and even buy and sell, this the right time to get up to speed with what’s possible using today’s technology and help shape the technology of tomorrow, making video higher quality, faster to stream and easier to create. Join us this year at DevConnect, a full-day conference taking place in NYC in April 2nd , bringing together web & mobile developers, video experts and content makers who care about the future of web video. This year, we have a great line-up of speakers featuring luminaries from Disney, Avid, Internet Broadcasting, Cognizant, Remote Learner, Paypal, eBay, Sencha and more.

Join us in these insightful sessions and many more sessions and hands-on workshops, shaping the future of online video – Check out the agenda at: http://devconnect.kaltura.org/agenda

The first 25 readers to register get a FREE ticket!
http://devconnect2012.eventbrite.com/?discount=OVAFREE

And if you’re too late, we have a special $100 discount for OVA friends at:
http://devconnect2012.eventbrite.com/?discount=OVAMEM

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Marvin Ammori on Threats to Open Video

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

We are thrilled to announce that Marvin Ammori will be delivering an address at this year’s Open Video Conference. Marvin is a Legal Fellow at the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative and a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. He is an internationally recognized lawyer and expert in the areas of Internet law, media law, freedom of speech, and cybersecurity law.

Before joining the Open Technology Initiative, Marvin taught cyberlaw and international and domestic telecommunications at the University of Nebraska College of Law, where he helped found the space and telecommunications law program with the support of U.S. Strategic Command. He has also acted as counsel on some of the most important cases involving the future of the Internet. As Free Press‘s first lawyer in Washington, DC., he was the lead lawyer before the FCC on the Free Press-Comcast net neutrality case, which has been called a “model of the free-speech battles of the future” and which shaped several years of telecom lobbying in Washington, DC. Marvin is also a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Marvin’s legal writings focus on freedom of speech, security, and new technologies. His work has appeared in places such as the New York Times, Boston Review, and the Huffington Post, and he is a contributor to Balkinization, one of the leading blogs for legal commentary.

Marvin will address the threats to our essential communications infrastructure—especially online video.  Marvin will draw on his wealth of knowledge to help us examine the stakes involved in ensuring that video progresses as a democratic, participatory, and collaborative medium. He has been on the cutting edge of addressing legal issues in communication throughout his career and will be bringing his expertise to the questions that will shape the future of video on the Web.

Marvin will also be leading a session that will work towards developing a map that visualizes the many patterns, layers, processes, and structures of the open video ecosystem.

If you haven’t already, make sure you register today!

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HTML5 progression at OVC: Open Media Developers

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

This year’s OVC will include an Open Media Developers conference track, convening a group of coders, engineers, and standards advocates working toward a more open video ecosystem.

If not for FFMpeg, VLC, Xiph, Blender, GStreamer and similar projects, publishing audio and video would be much more expensive, restrictive, and difficult.  Developers of these and other open source projects are building the foundations for our essential communications infrastructure.

Combine these foundational open video technologies with the recent developments in HTML5 & WebM, and video is poised to become a “first-class citizen” of the web. Browsers are within striking distance of offering limitless publication and distribution possibilities for audio and video content—a revolution of enormous scale, if you consider what’s been made possible by ordinary web pages with text and images.

The Open Video Conference is about building a future in which anyone can make and share video—and we are fortunate this year to convene the Open Media Developers working group for the architects of this future.

Previously, the Open Video Conference was host to the FOMS (Foundations of Open Media Software) developer workshop in the days following the main event. This year, the organizers of FOMS and OVC have decided to make this workshop a core part of the conference. The Open Media Developers track is comprised of the following sessions, all focused on developing next-generation video technologies:

In addition to these sessions, we’ll be very flexible on making more sessions and smaller breakouts to focus on particularly difficult challenges. And of course there will be time for coding, since we know that progress is only made when actual code is written.

If you are a developer in the space, we would really like to encourage you to join us. Travel support is available—please write conference@openvideoalliance.org and let us know what you’re working on in the open media landscape.

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