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Up one levelTransmission Asia-Pacific (TXAP)
From May 19-25 2008 fifty-five tech and video activists gathered in West Java, Indonesia to share code and stories. Organised by EngageMedia and the Jakarta based Ruangrupa Transmission Asia-Pacific brought together projects from 15 different countries, from Japan to India, and China to New Zealand, to discuss ways to most effectively use online video as a social change tool.
Video Coverage of Tibetan Uprising
The uprising in Tibet is highlighting the power and necessity of independent video and do-it-yourself news making. These images have mobilised people around the world to take action for an independent Tibet. We're compiled a list of places where you can find video coverage of the uprisings.
Transmission Asia-Pacific - Extended Deadline - Call for Participation
EngageMedia and Ruangrupa would like to announce Transmission Asia-Pacific, a meeting of video activists and free software developers using online video distribution for social justice and media democracy. The meeting will be happening in West Java, Indonesia from May 19-25 2008. --- APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 28 ---
Plumi 0.2 Released
EngageMedia have recently announced the release of Plumi 0.2, the free software video sharing platform. Plumi enables you to create a sophisticated video sharing and community site out-of-the-box. In a web landscape where almost all video sharing sites keep their distribution platform under lock and key Plumi is one contribution to creating a truly democratic media.
EngageMedia February Update
There's a lot going on with EngageMedia in February so we thought we should let you know about some of the more important news. We will be participating in a panel and screenings at the Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne, there are some new improvements to the website, and the release of a new Facebook application to help you share videos from EngageMedia with your friends.
CabTube: Italian Librarians Take to Plumi
The Athenaeum Centre for Libraries (Centro di Ateneo per le Biblioteche - CAB) recently implemented Plumi for their Berlin 5 Conference on Open Access at Padua University.
EngageMedia at Making Links
EngageMedia will be running a workshop about online video distribution at this years Making Links conference in Sydney, October 30-31. If you are interested in finding out how to compress your video, get your content online and get it out there make sure you come along.
Quick Guide to Burmese Uprising Coverage and Video
There are a range of spaces online to find out information about the current uprising in Burma, in particular video content which in previous times would have been hard to access. The following is a list of such web spaces.
UnionTube - Japanese Labor Organsation using Plumi
Japanese labor organisation LaborNet have implemented Plumi, the video sharing system produced by EngageMedia, to run UnionTube, a site focussed on Japanese worker's issues.
Get on your digital soapbox!
September: As part of ANAT's "Still Open" workshops EngageMedia programmer Andy Nicholson will be speaking in Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane at a series of free public lectures along with Alessandro Ludovico and Beatriz da Costa.
Going to APEC? Looking for video makers
EngageMedia is looking for video makers going to the APEC summit in Sydney this week. We want to cover a range of angles on the site from those challenging APEC's neoliberal agenda. If you are planning on being there, are looking for other video makers, or have content to contribute then let us know.
OpenMute Agent Network Beta Launched
OpenMute is proud to announce the launch of its first ϐ version of 'Agents Network' a distribution service for independent media.
Democracy Player Becomes Miro
The popular Democracy Player has just transformed itself into Miro and offers a bunch of new features. Miro is THE application for subscribing to video podcast (vodcast) feeds (you can find a big range of these feeds on EngageMedia) and it's all based on Free and Open Source software.
Free Media vs Free Beer (ANAT edit)
A great mass of companies are currently clamouring for your content. The names have rapidly become commonplace—YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr—and their effect has been enormous, dramatically changing the production and distribution of media globally by offering a host of 'free' services to anyone that wants them. Free beer pours from the taps of these new media hubs as they scramble to get you in the door. But free beer, as Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman has always emphasised, is not the same as freedom.
A YouTube for the Activist World
An article by Indian Journalist Frederick Noronha about EngageMedia.
Audio/Video Toolkit Updated
The Audio/Video edition of NGO-in-a-Box is a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools, guides and tutorials for multimedia production and distribution. The edition has just been revised with new tools, updated versions of the software, the ability to browse the content by tags and some new categories.
Make Internet TV
Make Internet TV (MITV) is a step-by-step guide creating and publishing video on the web. The site covers shooting, editing, licensing, compressing, uploading and promoting video on the internet; it illustrates these topics with screenshots, photos, screencasts, graphics, text and more.
Still/Open: Call for Submissions
Still/Open is a series of workshops organised by the Australian Network for Art and Technology focusing on the practice and theory of open source approaches as applied through networked art and software development, print and online publishing, and in the scientific arena. EngageMedia programmer Andy Nicholson will participate as a Lab Facilitator in the workshops focusing on the development, deployment and methodology of free software.
EngageMedia at OurMedia
EngageMedia will be running a video screening and an online distribution workshop as part of the OurMedia conference on community, alternative and citizen's media in Sydney, April 9-13.
Site Updates and Upgrades
EngageMedia has been busy the last couple of months fixing lots of bugs, adding new features and upgrading to the latest version of Plone, the content management system our site runs on. We also moved to a bigger and faster server, making navigating and getting your video from the site a more pleasurable experience.
Free Media vs Free Beer
A great mass of companies are currently clamouring for your content. The names have rapidly become commonplace—YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr—and their effect has been enormous, dramatically changing the production and distribution of media globally by offering a host of 'free' services to anyone that wants them. Free beer pours from the taps of these new media hubs as they scramble to get you in the door. But free beer, as Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman has always emphasised, is not the same as freedom.
EngageMedia in Yogyakarta
On February 5th 2007 EngageMedia collaborated with the Cemeti Art Foundation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, to put on a workshop about net-based video distribution.
