Comments on: Open Video Conference an Amazing Step Forward

By: Matthew Smith

Matthew Smith — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:48:46 +0000

Great write-up. If you’re interested, we were there and shot some footage. Thanks.

http://www.thoughtcast.org/thoughtcast-shorts/the-promise-of-open-media/

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:35:54 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, J! Would love to work together on a feedback group with content producers and coders — it’s something we’re talking about quite a bit, post-conference. Feel free to email me!

By: JonRob

JonRob — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:03:47 +0000

Great post, especially the part about reaching out to content producers to get their feedback on Gnome software. If there’s anything missing from free software development, at least from what I understand, it’s feedback from users of the programs. Automated QA and all the work that’s going in to bug squashing in Fedora is awesome at the moment, but it doesn’t do anything to help ensure developers are actually creating software people want to use!

I’m sure there are those that say because it’s free software it doesn’t matter if the developer creates something other people want to use, so long as they’re scratching their own itch, but to me this is only half true.

Anyway, great post and good work.

By: Duv

Duv — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:24:18 +0000

That is not entirely shocking that Youtube would be like that currently. But I don’t think that they are going to have much options left to them if they continue to beat that drum.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:45:01 +0000

I just wanted to mention OpenShot Video Editor and KDEnlive.

By: will

will — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:58:56 +0000

Figured I’d mention a few things. I’m pretty sure Dean said there were 800+ people at the conference. The best thing about the conference wasn’t the number of people who attended but rather the fact that we had people from all parts of the video production, publication, distribution, playback, hack spectrum. I’m hoping next year we can do an exercise to line everyone up in the spectrum from directors, videographers, producers all the way down to the folks who design the codecs.

I was talking with some other folks about how the Adobe and YouTube representatives (whose names I don’t recall) seem to have completely different narratives about what’s going on. The Adobe rep kept using the word “open”, but … I don’t think it means what she/they think it means. It’s really frustrating.

Also, you mentioned how the YouTube rep was saying theora wasn’t there yet. I’m pretty Mike from blip.tv was also beating the “theory isn’t there yet” drum. That surprised me. I think they missed the sessions that demoed results of the work on the theora encoders.

It was good to see you at the conference. The work on Fedora Community is awesome.