Open Source Tools
Conducted by Kenyatta Cheese, Tiffiniy Cheng, Jay Dedman, and Ryanne Hodson

Commercial hosts like YouTube give DIY videomakers potential access to a large audience, but they are also problematic for some videomakers because of (lack of) ad-sharing, licensing, IP logging and data mining, and video takedowns based on corporate or government requests. Happily, the last couple of years have seen a leap forward in the ability of DIY videomakers to set up their own vlogs or even community videosharing sites. Much of this is based on advances in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) content management systems (CMS). In this workshop, we will learn about the state of the art in FOSS CMS for DIY videomakers. We will also discuss open source options for video production.

Panelists will demo and discuss the following platforms in an interactive panel format:

Showinabox.tv is a free, open source platform that creators can use to showcase and distribute their videos online. Built by ninjas of the Videoblogging community, Show-In-A-Box solves the issue of spending all your time or money trying to make a great looking website, which often leaves less time to make the content itself. If you are moderately tech savvy, then setting up Show-In-A-Box is easy. We'll show you how to build a site that's as professional and high quality as the work itself.

FilmForge is a version of the content management system Drupal, tailored to the needs of videomaking communities. FilmForge makes it simple to install and run your own video sharing site.

Plumi is a Free Software video sharing Content Management System based on Plone and produced by the EngageMedia collective. Plumi enables you to create your own sophisticated video sharing site; by adding it to an existing Plone instance you can quickly have a wide array of functionality to facilitate video distribution and community creation.

Miro is a free open-source desktop video application that is designed to make mass media more open and accesible for everyone. Viewers can connect to any video provider that they want. This frees creators to use the video hosting setup that works best for them-- whether they choose to self-publish or use a service. It's the kind of openness that the internet allows and that we should all demand.

The Open Media Library is a project of the Participatory Culture Foundation and Harvard Law's Berkman Center to provide universities, public media organizations, and individuals with a free and open solution for publishing and sharing media.