We are a group of artists, interested in, and working with open source 
software, currently preparing a meeting / workshop week around open 
source online video which will take place in the week from 17 to 23 
november in Brussels. http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/

The workshop is carried by Constant, a brussels based organisation for 
arts and media see: www.constantvzw.com.
It will be a week with practical workshops around open source tools and 
methods for producing free video-content for the web, without the use of 
proprietory software, codecs, formats.
Parallel to these hands-on workshops there will be a series of 
presentations of collaborative video projects,
The presentations will be done in collaboration with some brussels based 
organisations, such as: Agency, Plus Tot Te Laat, VOX, Nova cinema, 
Okno, and others.

In the workshops we would like to touch as many aspects of the whole 
process a videomaker goes through when she wants to work with open 
source to distribute / difuse video online, from open codex to cms 
systems fit for video. A kind of 'demo' of an open source workflow.

As possible workshops, we are thinking of:
- workshop open codex / containers: theora, ogg, matroska, dirac, x264
- workshop bittorent P2P video: video rss feed
- workshop in open content licenses and alternative economical models 
for video-production
- workshop cms (spip, plumi, wordpress, active-archives)
- workshop watching no flash webvideo: java, cortado, web tv

some names of people already + not yet invited people:
Jan gerber, Sebastian Luetgert, (0xdb, pad.ma, pirate cinema, a.o.)
Camille Harang (Then you win, yoook, Menagerie)
Michael Murtaugh (Piet Zwart, Active Archives)
Spip developers team
Shaina Anand (pad.ma)
Adnan hadzi (deptford.tv) + Bitnik
Florian Schneider (V2V, kein.org)
a.o. ...

the week will be concluded with some screenings (steal this film 1,2 + 
...) + A big public presentation and discussion of what is possible with 
open tools, video + the web, in Nova cinema in Brussels 
http://www.nova-cinema.org/