Wikipedia:WikiProject Mozilla/Video & the Commons 2016
On January 19 2016 a group convened at Tisch School of the Arts in Manhattan to discuss integrating Mozilla's video editing software into Wikimedia projects. This page is an on-wiki record of some what happened at that meeting.
Background edit
The main description page for the project is Video & the Commons 2016
In early 2012 Mozilla sped development of an in-browser tool which would enable non-technical users to edit video online. In November 2012 the Mozilla blog presented "Popcorn", the tool. In August 2015 Mozilla announced that they would no longer support Popcorn. Some historical documentation is at Mozilla Labs.
The software is still interesting, and it was imagined that perhaps the code could be integrated into Wikimedia projects. This would allow the Wikimedia community to edit videos within Wikipedia. Examples of applications include combining and remixing videos and dubbing over new audio tracks including voice overs in any language.
Attendees edit
- Andrew Lih, American University
- Dave Rice, City University of New York
- Jonah Bossewitch, Columbia Center for Teaching & Learning
- Peter B. Kaufman, Columbia University & Intelligent Television
- Lane Rasberry, Consumer Reports, Wikimedia NYC
- Ryan Merkley, Creative Commons
- Joan Shigekawa, formerly National Endowment of the Arts
- Jack Brighton, Institute for Nonprofit News
- Dan Schultz, Internet Archive
- Roger Macdonald, Internet Archive
- Tracey Jacquith, Internet Archive
- Alan Berry, The LAMP
- Jeff Ubois, MacArthur Foundation
- Ben Moskowitz, Mozilla
- Mike Nolan, Mozilla
- James Vasile, Open Tech Strategies / New America
- Travis Daub, PBS NewsHour
- Vanessa Dennis, PBS NewsHour
- Johan Oomen, Sound & Vision
- Joseph Skinner, Thirteen/WNET
- Casey Davis, WGBH Media Library and Archives
- Karen Cariani, WGBH Media Library and Archives
- Caitlin Virtue, Wikimedia Foundation
- Richard Knipel / Pharos, Wikimedia NYC
- Winter Shanck, WNET
- Josh Engel, YouTube
About the project edit
The imagined future of the project depended on two things - having a test platform to use and recruiting people who would use it.
User:Brion VIBBER, a software development at the WMF, is the lead in managing the software demo. Currently there is no demo.
It was imagined that if there was a demo, then the local NYC team at WP:Meetup/NYC would recruit participants to test it.
Until then, there is a pause until there is a live software demo to test.