social justice and environmental video online

Participant Introductions

• your name• your organisation or project• how you use video• what you want to learn• what you can share with

others about video distribution both online and offline

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• Since 2005• Melbourne based• 5 workers in

Australia, 3 new staff in Asia-Pacific

• Non-profit• Collective

organising model

EngageMedia Collective

EngageMedia Aims

• Content

• Network

• Training

• Software

Content - Sourcing

• Independently

produced

• Social-justice

• Environmental

• Asia-Pacific

Content - Video Distribution

• Website

• Video Podcast

• Download

• Screenings

• Festivals

• Community TV

• Online / Offline

www.engagemedia.org

Network - Asia-Pacific Video

• Videomakers

• FOSS

developers

• Campaigns

and social

movements

• Asia-Pacific

• Transmission

meetings - TX

Rome, TXAP

Training - Online Video

• Online video

tools

• Video

compression

• Open content

licensing

• FOSS (Free

Open Source

Software)

Software - Plumi video-sharing• Based on

Plone CMS

• FOSS

• Auto

transcodin

g

• Vodcasts

• News,

events,

callouts

• BitTorrent

(soon)

Website Features

• what you can do on www.engagemedia.org

My Profile

Your public profile on EngageMedia. This page lists all your video contributions and has a link to your personal Video Podcast.

Publish Video

Share your productions by uploading video to EngageMedia. Videos will be automatically submitted for publishing approval. View editorial policy.

Publish Event

List your events such as screenings, film festivals or workshops here.

Publish News

Tell us news about your past and future productions and promote your work.

Call out!

Looking for content for a DVD compilation, screening, film festival or crew for a production? Let people know about it by adding a call-out.

My Workspace

Your folder containing Videos, News and Events you have already contributed. You can also use your workspace to upload files, images and other material related to your video work, such as downloads for flyers and posters.

Indonesian Videos

• already on www.engagemedia.org

• Advertising revenue - shareholders

• Streaming - no re-distribution

• YouTube license - for their re-use

• Closed software platform

• Sold to Google - Google ads

• Donations revenue - producers - not yet

• Download for re-distribution

• Creative Commons - producer choice

• Free software platform

• No sale, community management

•open content licensing system•alternative to restrictive

copyright•“some rights reserved” NOT all

rights reserved•flexible system to allow choice of

licenses

Attribution - if they give you credit

Noncommercial - for noncommercial purposes

No Derivative Works - verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it - no remixes

Share Alike - derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work - others must let others remix also

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work ONLY:

Demonstrate Video Publishing

• Login to www.engagemedia.org

• Click publish• Choose video• 3 step publishing form• Title, description etc.• Categorisation• Creative Commons license• Video file and image file

Video Podcasting (Vodcasting)

• Uses RSS feeds• RSS = Really Simple Syndication• Publishes a feed or channel of

videos• Users can subscribe to video

podcast channel in iTunes or Miro• Automatically download videos• Notified when new videos are

published

Vodcasting on EngageMedia.org

• Vodcast channels created automatically by:– User– Genre eg. documentary– Country eg. Malaysia– Topic eg. Sustainability

Demonstrate Video Podcasting

• Choose user, country, topic or genre

• Copy VODCAST link• Open Miro• Choose “Subscribe to

Channel”• Wait for channel to load• Download videos

Democracy Player

EngageMedia Facebook App

• “EngageMedia Latest Videos”

• Uses RSS2 Vodcast feed• Install app onto profile• Shows latest videos• (demonstration in Firefox)

Working with Activist Communities

• example: Climate Camp Australia 2008

– coordinated the media space– online video training– video publishing– screenings

Photos

• Flickr

• Picasa

• tags

• linked galleries

Climate Camp Media

Blogs

• CC website

• Sydney

Indymedia

• multimedia

posts

Climate Camp Media

Video

• Engage

Media

• You

Tube

Climate Camp Media

Transmission Asia-Pacific (TXAP)

• Organised by EngageMedia and Ruangrupa

• 50 participants from around Asia-Pacific

• Videomakers, free software developers, organisations with online video websites

Transmission Asia-Pacific (Firefox)

• www.transmission.cc– Main page– Blogs

• wiki.transmission.cc– Projects list– Txap main page

• www.transmission.cc/txap• Main txap page• Photos

Discussion: online video in Indonesia

• Feedback on EngageMedia• How do you distribute video?• Is online video viable in Indonesia?• Who uses online video?• Which online services do you use?• Is it better to distribute video

offline in Indonesia?• Can you use both online and offline

methods for distribution?