The “Open Source Developer Conference” 2008 took place in Sydney between 2nd-5th December. I gave two talks at it:
As requested by the organisers, I just uploaded the slides to Slideshare, which incidentally can now also synchronise audio recordings of your talk to your slides. Here are my slides – even if they don’t actually give you much without the demo:
I had lots of fun giving the talks. The “YouTube” one talks about the Fedora Commons document repository and how we turned it into a video transcoding, keyframing, publication and sharing system. The one on Metavidwiki shows off the Annodex-technology using video wiki that is in use by Wikipedia. Most certainly, I also mentioned that open source CMS systems now have video extensions. However, they are not video-centric sites in general.
Of all the open source Web video technology, I find Fedora Commons and MetaVidWiki the most exciting ones. The former is exciting for its ability to archive and publish video and their metadata in a way that integrates with document management. The latter is even more exciting for using Ogg and the open Annodex technologies to create a completely open source system using open codecs, and for being the world’s second video wiki (just after CMMLwiki), but the first one to achieve wide uptake.
Any chance to get them in a more open format?
You can download the pdf from slideshare.