[webcast-l] Transmission - Rome 7-10 June 2006

Bill Best bill.best at commedia.org.uk
Wed Apr 26 10:22:53 BST 2006


http://transmission.cc

7th-10th June 2006

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Transmission is a gathering of video makers,
programmers and web producers developing online video
distribution as a tool for social justice and media
democracy.

A host of initiatives have sprung up across the globe
in recent years that seek to mix media activism with
increasing access to broadband, new video encoding
advances, content management systems, RSS, p2p and
free software. These technologies and projects are
converging to democratise access to video distribution
on a global level, challenge the dominance of top-down
broadcast media and give voice to range of critical
social and environmental issues.

http://transmission.cc

Those attending the meeting will have a key role in
constructing the agenda - as the goal is to work on
issues that concern us all. Given the space and budget
available we have available Transmission will be
limted to approximately 30 people.

The following are loose proposals for activities
throughout the convergence:

     * Introductions and collective setting of final
agenda for the meeting
     * Project Presentations – 30 minutes for each
project to explain brief history, current status and
planned future development
     * Forum/discussion on current technologies
available for video distribution on the Internet,
identification of pressing needs and collaborative
possibilities
     * Wider discussion of social and philosophical
aspects of the changing media landscape including the
relationship between these new technologies and social
movements - and how we can best promote the use of
these tools for positive social change
     * Open collaborative spaces during the convergence
to work on already identified areas of work
     * Workshops facilitated by developers and
producers on specific skills related to online video
distribution
     * Evening screenings/presentation of video work

Currently the aims of the gathering are to:

     * increase communication between projects
     * build relationships between projects working on
different aspects of distribution
     * improve knowledge and skills of participants
     * assess and compare the current tools and
projects in a constructive yet self-critical
environment
     * investigate the possibilities of technical
collaboration and consider a the possibilities of
common platforms

Some possible outcomes might be:

     * sharing of resources (both software and
hardware) including the possibility of building a
server ring to share bandwidth or for p2p networking
     * the formation of an ongoing means of
communication between projects to build collaborations
and for technical support
     * a common syndication site bringing together RSS
feeds produced by all participating projects and
managed collectively
     * skill-sharing methods used in the various
aspects of distribution (encoding, bittorrent,
vodcasting, streaming etc.)
     * creating common documentation and instructional
resources



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