This year’s Open Video Conference will take place on 19-20 June at the NYU Law School, New York. Andy and Andrew from EngageMedia will both be there, talking about EngageMedia and Plumi. Open Video is a broad based movement of video creators, technologists, academics, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, activists, remixers, and many others. When most folks think of “open,” they think of open source and open codecs. They’re right— but there’s more to Open Video than open codecs. Open Video is the growing movement for transparency, interoperability, and further decentralization in online video. These qualities provide more fertile ground for independent producers, bottom-up innovation, and greater protection for free speech online.
More info…GO TO ENGAGEMEDIA
Gosh I am so not sure about this: but it’s done the rounds or should I say geek circuit; so you be the judge.
BarCamp Sydney is on again and it’s been dubbed the Recession Edition. In keeping with the Recession theme of BarCamp there are a few changes. Like a new venue, at the Australian Technology Park (ATP) Innovations Centre.
Constantly looking for ideas, we open us discussion in The Think Tank room – a small room with no projector and no tech – just enough room for a small group of people discussing ideas. And what better ideas to discuss than ideas about the future.
More detailed information to come but check out the website and stay informed and block out Saturday June 27 for BarCamp Sydney and put your thinking hats on to present a ripper of a session.
Bar Camp Sydney website
The competition is for filmmakers to produce an original and imaginative film that works within the confines of sixty seconds. The categories for submitting your film are Film, Animation, Mobile File, Documentary, Machinima, Experimental, Title Sequence, Film Trailer, Ident, Advert. Each month we will show the films sent to us which are open for a public vote to decide which film wins each month and goes into the grand final of the twelve best films of the year. At the end of the year the best 12 selected films will be judged by the public to decide which film is the Winner of the prestigious Renderyard 1 Minute Challenge award. You can submit as many films as you like. Your film must be no longer than 1 minute in length.
To submit a film please click the link.
Billed as “the e-mail of the future,” Google Wave is the result of a multiyear project inside of Google to reinvent the in-box, blending e-mail, instant messaging, photo sharing, and perhaps, with input from developers, connections to the world of social networking.
Wave organizes Internet discussions in the trendy stream of consciousness fashion. It’s a little bit Twitter, a little bit Friendfeed, and a little bit Facebook all in one service, allowing you to send direct messages to online contacts with real-time replies, share photos or documents, and add or delete members of the conversation as needed.
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