Title: Open Video Conference
Location: NYU Law School, NYC
Link out: Click here
Description: Open Video is a broad-based movement of video creators, technologists, academics, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, activists, remixers, and many others. The conference will bring together stakeholders in the online video space (video makers, coders, lawyers, academics, entrepreneurs, etc.) for cross-pollination and development of the Open Video movement.
It will also raises the public profile of video creators and artists, especially those whose work relies on or contributes to Open Video and the public interest and awareness around the Principles of an Open Video Ecosystem, a community effort to define best practices in online video.
Start Date: 2009-06-19
End Date: 2009-06-20

Jon Cruz, an Inkscape developer, recently gave an awesome presentation on the state of color management in Linux at linux.conf.au 2009.  The video, “Why Color Management matters to Open Source and to You”, is approximately 60 minutes long and gives us an overview and history of color management.  As Jon points out early in the presentation, color management should be important to everyone, not just graphic designers or print professionals.  End users, business professionals, and even the amateur photographer, should be aware of how color will be displayed from device to device.

A few interesting things, among many, that Jon talks about are: Continue reading…

Meet The Gimp has released episode 086 titled “A Spot of F-Spot”.  The focus of the screencast is on F-Spot, a full-featured personal photo management application for the Gnome Desktop.  The video focuses on the work flow, not just the specifics of the program.  Therefore, this should be informative for any photo management program you prefer.

Download here.

Heathenx has released episode 082.  The screencast teaches you how to make a tennis ball in Inkscape.

Download here.

Olivier Archer, a cinematography student in an art school in Switzerland, is kind enough to make available online his thesis project on Digital Distribution.

From Olivier:

I am doing this guide because I was given a very open “Memoir” assignment. Since I have always been interested in the internet and technology but I noticed that, my fellow classmates and schoolmates are not embracing this wonderful tool.

I hope that if you will learn something from this guide and it might even jump-start your online video career, people are making money doing it, you can too! Even I have made a little bit of money on my online digital distribution escapades, but at the time my goal was not making money and it was audio, just like video but smaller.

The site is a good introductory on distributing your media digitally.  Check out the site here.